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Whether it’s the mRNA vaccine technology that powered the Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines, new frontiers of biomanufacturing or new personalized medicine enabled by understanding the human genome, medicine is evolving fast. For those working in, designing and building the labs where these discoveries are made, it’s clear the workspaces…

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ATLANTA — The mayor of Sandy Springs, a suburb just north of Atlanta, watched all three of his adult children get priced out of his city in the past 18 months.

“They're leaving because they can't afford it in Sandy Springs,” said Rusty Paul, who was elected mayor in 2013 and was a city councilor before that.

Housing prices have skyrocketed in his jurisdiction, like every other Atlanta suburb and many across the country. The cost to buy a median house in Sandy Springs has risen 35% over the past 15 years to $545K in May. Just last year, the median sales price was less than $500K.

The Paul family story is a common one in Atlanta these days, as people looking for reasonably priced homes are forced to go farther and farther from the urban core to find a place to live. In a region long infatuated with driving and living in single-family houses close to the city, a massive influx of people and steepening housing prices means it is growing out, not up.

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Is half of the data center workforce close to calling it quits?

Amid a flood of demand for data centers that shows no signs of abating, it is perhaps unsurprising that U.S. data center operators are worried about finding enough qualified employees to run their facilities.

But exacerbating these fears is a reality that may be less intuitive in an industry on the cutting edge of the digital revolution: Its workforce is getting old. With nearly half of the sector’s workers nearing retirement age, companies are scrambling to play catch-up and restock a talent pipeline spread dangerously thin. 

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LONDON — The last time Bisnow produced its list of amazing women doing brilliant things in UK commercial real estate in late 2019, the world was a very different place. 

Given the difficulty of the past 18 months, we decided to use 2021’s list to celebrate some of the wonderful people who have risen to the challenges, and not only survived but thrived in their professional lives. 

This year's list is as diverse as ever, in all senses of the word, and includes women who have steered businesses through the rocky waters of the coronavirus pandemic, started new firms during a recession, helped tenants or customers stave off the worst effects of Covid-19, and generally met challenges head-on with energy and enthusiasm. 

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