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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. Legal weed has already driven up rents in cities such as Denver, Seattle, and Portland, which had previously relaxed cannabis laws.

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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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Redfin Testing Online Real Estate Bids

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Redfin , the real estate company based in Seattle, is rolling out a new program that enables home buyers to bid on properties via its website. According to a report in The New York Times , Redfin started testing the program in Boston and is gearing up to expand it to other parts of the country. It was for listings in the Boston area.

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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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First-Class Perks Include VR Tech On Alaska Air

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” From September 23-27, first-class passengers onboard 10 flights between Boston and Seattle and Boston and San Diego will have a chance to experience the technology, as well as offer feedback, on a selection of 2D and 3D movies provided by SkyLights’ partners 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers and EIM. “I’m

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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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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