Patrick Sisson
Writer, Editor and Reporter at Freelance
Writer. Trends, tech & policy shaping cities. Bylines: New York Times, Bloomberg CityLab, MIT Tech Review, Bisnow. patsisson at gmail dot com & psiss on Threads
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1 week ago |
fastcompany.com | Patrick Sisson
Thermal pools, hammams, banyas, onsens, shvitzes, cold plunges, steam rooms, and saunas: Hot and cold water, and the communal experience of steam and sweat, has been a pillar of social and wellness cultures across millennia. Now a new crop of brighter and busier spaces known as social bathhouses seek to re-create the benefits of communal bathing with a callout to today’s overstressed, always-connected culture.
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2 weeks ago |
fastcompany.com | Patrick Sisson
The Mojave Micro Mill just broke ground in the Mojave Desert about 85 miles from downtown Los Angeles. It’ll be the first steel mill to open in California in more than half a century when it begins production in two years. More notable, it’ll do so using local sun and wind power, making it the first self-powered, net-zero steel mill in the country.
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2 weeks ago |
bisnow.com | Patrick Sisson
Biting cuts came to the nation’s health and science agencies last week, with thousands of layoffs and millions in budget reductions roiling organizations like the National Institutes of Health and Department of Health and Human Services. The reductions in overall spending capacity and grant funding will clamp down on a key pipeline that pumps dollars into the life sciences sector, a hindrance likely to place more strain on an already stumbling segment of the commercial real estate market.
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2 weeks ago |
fastcompany.com | Patrick Sisson
The extreme tariffs that President Donald Trump has applied to nations across the world have had a whipsaw effect on global trade, with markets nosediving and countries scrambling to strategize a response.
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3 weeks ago |
bisnow.com | Patrick Sisson
With steep new tariffs bearing down, a travel ban in the works and persistent talk of annexing foreign land, hotel owners are wary of the potential travel impacts of President Donald Trump’s policies. Additional uncertainty has piled on as companies work to complete their recoveries in the face of a growing wave of loan maturities set for this year.
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