Formula Help - Splitting a String within a Column

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I've got a database export of addresses that looks like this

Geo_Address
WHITE&SECOND
1 MCDONOUGH PLAZA
1 MCDONOUGH PLAZA
1 MCDONOUGH PLAZA
WASHINGTON&CENTER
297 SECOND AVE

I need a formula that can place a space before and after the ampersand (so I can run this through Google Geocoder API as an intersection) while leaving the other strings in each row without an & in tact. So this formula should provide the following results:

Geo_Address
WHITE & SECOND
1 MCDONOUGH PLAZA
1 MCDONOUGH PLAZA
1 MCDONOUGH PLAZA
WASHINGTON & CENTER
297 SECOND AVE

Thanks for any help you can provide.
 

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I've got a database export of addresses that looks like this

Geo_Address
WHITE&SECOND
1 MCDONOUGH PLAZA
1 MCDONOUGH PLAZA
1 MCDONOUGH PLAZA
WASHINGTON&CENTER
297 SECOND AVE

I need a formula that can place a space before and after the ampersand (so I can run this through Google Geocoder API as an intersection) while leaving the other strings in each row without an & in tact. So this formula should provide the following results:

Geo_Address
WHITE & SECOND
1 MCDONOUGH PLAZA
1 MCDONOUGH PLAZA
1 MCDONOUGH PLAZA
WASHINGTON & CENTER
297 SECOND AVE

Thanks for any help you can provide.
With your data starting in A2...

Enter this formula in B2 and copy down as needed:

=SUBSTITUTE(A2,"&"," & ")
 
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