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Birmingham, Alabama’s Encompass Health Corp. (NYSE: EHC) is getting ready to open a rehabilitation hospital in Bowie, in a bid to fill a gap in care for Prince George’s County patients. Encompass, which owns and operates rehab hospitals across U.S., said Wednesday the 60-bed inpatient facility is on track to start seeing patients in June.

The world’s oldest sculpture is estimated to have been created about 40,000 years ago. Robert Perless’s “Monad” — a shiny metal blade 32 feet tall — is considerably newer. Perless made it in 1978 for Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg, Md. Will it stand the test of time? Forget 40,000 years. Some people worry “Monad” may not be around in four years. Lakeforest Mall closed at the end of March. Its new owners hope to redevelop the 100-acre site.

A $5 million donation to LifeBridge Health came full circle on Tuesday for Dennis Weinman as he saw the first patch of dirt get shoveled out for a new cancer building at Sinai Hospital. The real estate company president met a Sinai staff member who treated his grandmother and still remembered her more than 20 years after his grandmother got treatment for cancer.

Weeks after Guinness filed plans to shutter its Baltimore County manufacturing plant, Flying Dog Brewery this week announced it will close its Frederick facility. But the departures are more indicative of industry trends than of a brewery problem in the state, say industry experts. Guinness’s parent company, Diageo North America, plans to close its Baltimore County site on June 9, according to a March filing with the Maryland Department of Labor.

Montgomery County native Josh Harris is closing in on a purchase of the Washington Commanders. His group of limited partners includes a slate of businessmen who also have deep ties to the suburban Maryland county, including Danaher Corp. co-founder and Glenstone owner Mitchell Rales, serial investor Mark Ein and Michael Sapir, CEO of Bethesda’s ProShares. Given all those deep-pocketed local connections, is the county interested in getting in the game for the Commanders’ next stadium?

If your workplace was a fictional company or TV show, which one would it be? That’s one of the questions we asked this year’s Best Places to Work winning companies as part of our Mad Libs-themed special section. We got a variety of answers but the most popular response was “Cheers,” a.k.a. the place where everybody knows your name. Perhaps it’s not surprising that amid all the uncertainty of the last few years, employees are giving high marks to organizations that make an effort to know them personally rather than just seeing them as another line on a spreadsheet.

The facility, located on Greenspring Avenue, will include several treatment and exam rooms, centralizing the hospital’s oncology services, according to a news release. Sinai Hospital is part of the LifeBridge Health system.

Frederick’s Flying Dog Brewery is being sold to a New York company whose brands include Saranac and Utica Club, the companies announced Monday. The financial terms were not disclosed. The new owner, Utica-based FX Matt Brewing Co., was founded in 1888 and is the fourth-oldest family brewery in the United States, Flying Dog said in a press release.