The Porter Square Shopping Center, owned by Gravestar since its formation in 1994, has been packaged with eight other properties and sold to TA Realty of Boston in a $390 million deal. TA Realty’s partner was Wilder, also of Boston, which operates retail properties from Maine to Florida and Illinois.

Porter Square trolley wires restricting street design will be gone in July, Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui told city councillors Monday, citing a letter received from the MBTA. It means skipping an interim step of replacing metered parking with short-term loading zones, providing less confusion to drivers and more certainty to businesses.

Watertown is searching for its next city manager, and one of three finalists for the job is George Proakis, executive director of strategic planning and community development for Somerville.

Opposition to a recreational cannabis shop proposed for the Strawberry Hill neighborhood is being rallied by a second, nearby recreational cannabis shop.

Constituents have reached out to me throughout this pandemic about experiencing delays or difficulty getting their unemployment benefits from the Department of Unemployment Assistance. My office is often a last resort for people exhausted and frustrated with not being able to obtain the funds that will keep them afloat.

Cambridge’s Suzanne Teegarden is a winner in the year’s Mass Audubon statewide photography contest with an image of Canada geese chicks taken in Watertown.

Cambridge’s Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School surprised the Town of Watertown by saying its “open green space” was going to be synthetic turf. If you share our concerns and have any connection to BB&N, please make your voices heard.

A vote Monday locks in spending $18.5 million for a friendly land taking of the 4-acre Buckingham Field in West Cambridge, but not its use as permanent open space – a distinction that was crucial to several of the eight city councillors who agreed to the purchase.

Public meetings this week look at buying 4 acres of open space from Buckingham, Browne & Nichols for $18.5 million; metrics and other rules around in-person learning; and the details of proposed CambridgeSide mall redevelopment.

Workers at software companies are used to free food – a perk of white-collar tech jobs common since the dot-com boom. One is now offering a free meal even before you’re hired.