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June 19, 2019

The Glass Ceiling Is 'More Like A Concrete Structure' For Women To Break Through
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The barrier standing in the way of women advancing professionally is commonly referred to as a glass ceiling because women can see beyond it, but must shatter something to get there.

Florida state Sen. Annette Taddeo takes a bit of an issue with the common metaphor.

"I believe it's more like a concrete structure," she said.

The Glass Ceiling Is 'More Like A Concrete Structure' For Women To Break Through

For 22 years, Taddeo has run a translation business, LanguageSpeak, from Miami. She has five to 10 people in the office and translators all over the world who speak 240 languages. In recent years, she ran for Congress and for lieutenant governor, losing both times, but won a state Senate seat…

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'It Cracked Like Hell': OSHA Report Assigns Fault For Deadly Miami Bridge Collapse

In the days before an under-construction bridge collapsed in Miami and killed six people, workers identified cracks in its structure but failed to report them or close the road under the bridge to traffic, a federal report commissioned after the collapse found.

'It Cracked Like Hell': OSHA Report Assigns Fault For Deadly Miami Bridge Collapse

When the span of the $14.2M, 174-foot, 950-ton bridge commissioned by Florida International University collapsed over a major road in Miami in March 2018, it was because of deficient structural design, according to a report released last week by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Directorate of Construction.During a…

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Virgin Trains Ready For Expansion To Orlando

Next week, Virgin Trains USA, formerly called Brightline, will hold a groundbreaking for its extension from West Palm Beach to Orlando International Airport. 

Virgin Trains Ready For Expansion To Orlando

Plans are also being debated for an extension to Tampa. Meanwhile, the already-open train station in Miami is ramping up leasing. When the whole circuit is complete, tourists could conceivably fly in on Virgin-branded planes to go on Virgin-branded cruise ships in Miami — which are expected to launch next…

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The Next Boston? Cell And Gene Therapy Spark A Philly Building Boom

PHILADELPHIA — What started in 2017 with one medical breakthrough is now poised to open the floodgates for an unprecedented development boom in Philadelphia.

In December 2017, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first-ever gene therapy process for treating a genetic condition. The applicant: Spark Therapeutics, a startup founded in 2013 by researchers from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Four months earlier, the FDA had given multinational pharmaceutical company Novartis approval for the first-ever cell therapy, which originated from the research of Dr. Carl June's laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania.

This year, the scientific advancements have inspired millions of square feet of planned life science development in the Philadelphia area.

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Soaring Land Values Have Atlanta Churches Exploring Ways To Work With Developers

ATLANTA — Two historic Episcopal churches in Atlanta, which combined control more than 8 acres of prime Midtown land, are mulling the redevelopment of their land as its property value soars.

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Rising Construction Costs Depressing Land Values, Slowing D.C.'s Development Wave
 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The continued rise in construction costs has made D.C.'s ongoing projects more expensive, and developers say the next wave of new projects will be hit the hardest. 

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