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Cannabis Startups Expected To Boost Warehouse Rents In Boston, L.A.

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Industrial rents in already-expensive cities like Los Angeles and Boston are expected to get a boost because of weed startups, according to Bloomberg Markets. It’s had a tremendous, positive impact on rents and property values for the markets where this has been legalized,” Circ said.

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Big Brick-And-Mortars Double Down On Same-Day Delivery

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However, of late, its expansion has been rapid, and it is now in 17 major metro markets. Best Buy has also recently added NYC, as well as Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Baltimore markets. All could use a boost. percent.

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Rinse Clothing Service Raises $14M To Expand To Boston, Chicago And Beyond

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Rinse has a solution for both, and thanks to a $14 million Series B funding round led by Partech, it’s taking that solution to two new cities: Boston and Chicago. The $14 million of funding Rinse recently secured will not be going into the company’s tech as much as into building out its team as it looks to launch in new markets.

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Lyft Rolls Out Vehicle Partitions In Health Safety Program

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Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston, Phoenix, Dallas and New York City. drivers for free, with the goal of providing 50 percent ride coverage in these markets,” the company wrote. “Following positive feedback from drivers and riders, we’re now providing partitions to additional drivers in Washington, D.C.,

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Alphabet-Backed Healthcare Startup, One Medical, To IPO

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” It has applied as common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. According to the filing , One Medical has nine locations — Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Investments in One Medical were led by the Carlyle Group, which owns 26.8

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Real Estate Money Laundering An Increasing Focus Of Governments

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Brigitte Unger, a professor at the Univerity of Utrecht in the Netherlands, is part of a fact-finding panel for Canada’s British Columbia on how to handle the increase of untraceable real estate purchases in Vancouver that are tied to crime syndicates and market abuse. Money laundering through real estate is about $1.6 As for the U.K.,

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Lyft Gets Hit With Class Action Lawsuit By Investors

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The the class action lawsuit, filed Friday (May 17) by Boston-based law firm Block & Leviton in U.S. The investors also contend Lyft overinflated its market share in its IPO filing. Citing Uber’s IPO filing, the investors said Lyft claimed to have 39 percent market share in the U.S. and Canada.