In a case that shows the lengths communities will go to stop a housing project from getting built, Methuen officials are trying to leverage the state’s use of a Days Inn motel as an emergency shelter for homeless families to block a proposal to build 300 rental units on a parcel that straddles the city’s border with neighboring Dracut.
New Balance’s Methuen factory has reopened following a $20 million renovation project, as the Boston-based athletic gear manufacturer doubles the facility’s workforce to 180 employees by the end of 2022.
Massachusetts is expanding its free coronavirus testing program to eight additional communities where positive test rates are above the statewide average at the same time the number of tests being conducted is dropping.
A 140-unit apartment complex in Methuen has been sold to Lawrence-based Arrowpoint Properties for $29.3 million.
About $80 million in government funding and $40 million in tax credits will preserve and produce nearly 1,600 housing rental units in Massachusetts, under a round of awards announced Thursday by Gov. Charlie Baker.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will anchor a medical office building conversion project planned by Boston-based developer Marcus Partners in Methuen.
EJ Paving and its president Thomas Evangelista have been cited $172,554 in restitution and penalties for violating the Massachusetts overtime law for work done on public projects across the state.
The owners of the Polartec headquarters and factory in Methuen have placed the property on the market with an eye to attracting the next generation of manufacturers.
