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accommodate an additional 55 research rooms, the new tower includes a café, gift December 2022. The company aims to
and development positions as well as shop, retail pharmacy, the Sacred Space, bring to market the world’s first honeybee
additional research and development a patient and family resource center, as vaccine to improve the health and
capabilities and activities to the site. well as inpatient and outpatient clinical productivity of honeybee colonies.
program support areas. Piedmont Athens
Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Regional is Athens-Clarke County’s second According to Forbes, total craft beer
Center completed a new, $194 million, largest employer, with approximately sales by volume edged up 1 percent in
nearly 229,000 square-foot patient 3,300 employees. 2021, while craft brewery sales rose 8
tower in Spring 2022. The expansion percent. That’s great news for the six
breweries along the Athens Beer Trail!
is designed to serve as a physical and Dalan Animal Health, Inc., a biotech Terrapin Brewing Co.’s commitment
healing connection to the surrounding company focused on insect health, to environmental sustainability makes
Athens community and allow for greater relocated its headquarters to Athens national news, most recently as it
integration of care for patients who are in 2022. The first global vaccine for announced to become a zero-waste
part of Piedmont’s east clinical hub. In honeybees was conditionally approved facility through its water treatment
addition to 128 modernized inpatient by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in program and composting actions.

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