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AIRPORT GLOW-UP
Redesigning a terminal at one of the
busiest U.S. airports, all while millions
of passengers come and go, is no
easy feat. But that’s what architecture
i rm HOK managed to do at New York
City’s LaGuardia Terminal B, which
fully reopened this year. The revamped
space has a more traveler- friendly vibe
all around, an eye-catching LED water
fountain, and sky bridges between
“islands.” “The metaphor is that New York
is a city of islands and bridges,” says
HOK president Carl Galioto of the new
terminal, which recently won a UNESCO
architecture and design award, making
it the gold standard for airport design
moving forward. —Alex FitzpatrickEV CONNECT
CHARGING
THE FUTURE
EV Connect, which runs 60,000 charging
stations for electric vehicles (EVs) across
the U.S. and Canada, makes it easy for
hotels, hospitals, schools, and more to
offer charging solutions. It manages
hardware installation, customer service,
and driver support on the back end,
while its tech platform makes it easy
for brands and public services to
integrate chargers into their existing
apps and services. The company
powered over 22 million electric miles
over the past year—the equivalent of
more than half a million gallons
of gasoline. —J.L.CALM
MENTAL HEALTH
AT HAND
Tranquility has been hard to come by
these days—which helps explain the
meteoric rise of Calm, a mindfulness
app that saw downloads double over the
course of the pandemic. Calm, which
now has 4 million paid subscribers
and a $2 billion valuation, has also
been working with corporate partners
to expand access to its Calm Business
program, through which 10 million
workers now have free access to the app
as a mental-health benei t. “We’re in the
middle of a global mental-health crisis,”
says communications director Alexia
Marchetti, “so Calm is focused on
helping ... as many people as possible.”
—Mariah EspadaIMPOSSIBLE FOODS
MEATLESS FUTURES
Impossible Foods blitzed the alt-meat
market with myriad new products this past
year, including Impossible Pork, Impossible
Meatballs, Impossible Sausage, and more.
That variety should help the $4 billion
rm maintain its impressive growth (retail
revenue jumped 85% year-over-year in
2021). But as investors have cooled on
rival Beyond Meat, Impossible may nd
itself rethinking the IPO it’s reportedly
planning. —Guadalupe GonzalezORSTED
HARNESSING WIND
The offshore wind industry has exploded
into a multibillion- dollar global business
critical to the world’s energy transition,
but the U.S. has hardly built any clean-
energy turbines off its shores. Danish
energy i rm Orsted is changing that, in
part by developing what is so far only
the second major U.S. offshore wind
project, South Fork Wind, off the coast
of Long Island, New York, with
construction starting in February. The
company is also planning a slew of other
projects up and down the East Coast,
and it’s bringing dozens of U.S. workers
to train in Europe to help build them.
—Alejandro de la GarzaUPWORK
FINDING FLEXIBILITY
Amid the Great Resignation, millions
of workers have ed their jobs in
search of exibility and agency.
Upwork, an online marketplace that
connects clients with freelancers for a
fee, is helping such workers discover
new opportunities, as well as giving
employers a way to i nd talent. The
company recently launched new features
for users on both sides of the hiring
table, including Project Catalog (which
lists prepackaged opportunities with
dei ned scopes and rates) and Talent
Scout (which curates the cream of
the applicant crop for hiring managers
and HR). Upwork now boasts nearly
800,000 clients, a 22% year-over-year
increase. —A.V.H.SARAH FRIARCOURTESY ALASKA AIR GROUP; NEXTDOOR: CHRISTOPHER GOODNEY—BLOOM
BERG/GETTY IMAGES; IMPOSSIBLE FOODS: BUSINESS WIRE/AP