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  • What a $322M national deal means for Westwood’s Life Time club
  • Could your face be scanned at Westwood’s Wegmans?

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• W.P. Carey Shells Out $320M For Portfolio Of Life Time Locations (bisnow.com) — A Life Time athletic club property at 44 Harvard St. in Westwood is part of a 10-location portfolio just sold to real estate investor W.P. Carey for $322M. While Life Time will keep operating the club under its existing lease, ownership has shifted as part of the company’s broader move toward single-tenant properties and away from self-storage assets.
   

• Is Wegmans Collecting Biometric Data On MA Shoppers? What To Know About Controversial Policy (patch.com) — If you shop at Wegmans in Westwood, you may soon encounter facial-recognition security that’s raising privacy concerns across Massachusetts and beyond. The chain says it only flags prior offenders, while new state data privacy rules now strictly limit how biometric information can be collected and stored.
   

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