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NAIOP-MARYLAND ANNOUNCES AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE 2010 WINNERS

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David Bavar of Bavar Properties Group honored with Lifetime Achievement Award and Greg Masi posthumously honored with Volunteer Award

Baltimore, MD April 23, 2010 - Seventeen local companies were honored in thirty-one different categories at last evening’s Awards of Excellence 2010 gala, sponsored by NAIOP-Maryland and held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. NAIOP-Maryland has more than 300 members and is comprised of individuals working for real estate development companies, brokerage firms and affiliated companies such as financial institutions, architectural and construction firms and engineers. For additional information, visit www.naiopmd.org.

In addition, David Bavar of Bavar Properties Group, LLC was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award, Joe Casey of Cushman & Wakefield and Owen Rouse of Manekin were co-winners of the Brokerage Award, Cathy Ward of Corporate Office Properties Trustreceived the Legislative Award, Chris Nevin of M & T Bank was chosen as the Service Provider of the Year and Brendan Gill of MacKenzie Commercial Real Estate was selected for the Rising Star Award.

Greg Masi was posthumously named the Volunteer of the Year in a new category created by NAIOP-Maryland in his memory. The former senior real estate advisor with Manekin passed away in fall 2009 and had been a member of the organizing committee for the Awards Gala since 2000.

The complete roster of building winners includes:

• Single-story office building – Manekin, LLC for 103 Bata Boulevard
• Mid-rise office building – Corporate Office Properties Trust for Gateway Exchange 3
• High-rise office building – H & S Properties for Legg Mason Tower at Inner Harbor East
• Build-to-suit office - Manekin, LLC for Merkle Headquarters
• LEED office – Merritt Properties, LLC for Schilling Green
• Office/Medical - MacKenzie Commercial Real Estate for Physicians Pavilion II @ Harford County
• Flex building – Liberty Property Trust for Highpoint 100

In the interior and exterior categories, the winners were:

• Exterior public common areas – Morris & Ritchie Associates, Inc. for St. Joseph Memorial Garden
• Interior public common area – Gensler for T. Rowe Price lobby
• Interior tenant fit-out two winners – St. John Properties, Inc. for Social Solutions – Baltimore Crossroads @95 and Merritt Properties, LLC for Firaxis Games
• LEED interior tenant fit-out – Gensler for Gensler Baltimore office.

Among business parks, the winners were:

• Industrial park – Duke Realty Corporation for Chesapeake Commerce Center
• Mixed-use community – David S. Brown Enterprises for Lansdowne Station

The industrial and warehouse category had the following winners:

• Warehouse – Emory Properties for Mid Atlantic Distribution Center, Building A
• Industrial build-to-suit – Merritt Properties, LLC for Bakery Express
• Industrial rehab – ProLogis for 1101 DeSoto Road
• Industrial LEED Building - Duke Realty Corporation for 5901 Holabird Ave. Chesapeake Commerce Center

The awards for best commercial real estate transactions were:

• Office high-rise – Trammell Crow for Franklin Center
• Office/Medical - MacKenzie Commercial Real Estate for Medical Pavilion @ Howard County
• Office single-story – Manekin, LLC for Chesapeake Science Point Charter School

Other category winners were:

• Retail – Bavar Properties Group, LLC for Shipley’s Grant
• Retail Rehab – St. John Properties, Inc. for Lakeshore Plaza
• Historical renovation – Seawall Development for Miller’s Court
• Adaptive Reuse – Chesapeake Real Estate Group for Bagby Building
• Environmentally-friendly business award -- Merritt Properties, LLC
• Social Impact - St. John Properties, Inc. for Reisterstown Volunteer Fire Department
• Community Impact – Seawall Development for Miller’s Court
• Overall Design Team – Trammell Crow for Franklin Center
• Community Service Program – Corporate Office Properties Trust
• Project Amenity – Manekin, LLC for Bulle Rock Residents’ Club.
• Best Rehab Office – Merritt Properties for Schilling Green

“The NAIOP Awards of Excellence program is held every other year to celebrate and recognize the innovative achievements of regional commercial real estate developers, as well as companies and individuals that service our industry in the Maryland region,” stated Robert Bavar, President of NAIOP-MD and Vice President of Bavar Properties Group. “Each winner represents a compelling example of how a unique challenge was overcome to realize a result that was economically, environmentally and aesthetically feasible. To reflect the overall movement in our industry to develop projects in an environmentally-friendly manner, a number of new categories were introduced this year with a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design LEED focus,” he added.

Lifetime Achievement Award winner David Bavar, president of Bavar Properties Group, has spent nearly 50 years in the real estate industry. He began his career at Manekin before becoming one of the founding partners of KLNB the “B” standing for Bavar. Bavar Properties Group is a family-owned firm with a portfolio of more than three million square feet of space throughout Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Florida. The company has built a reputation for quality and integrity through the careful use of its own resources and a long-term ownership perspective.

Greg Masi, who worked with a number of local real estate organizations including Manekin, was honored posthumously with the inaugural Greg Masi Volunteer Award. “Greg selflessly and generously donated his time and energy to many different NAIOP-Maryland committees and efforts, but had a particular attraction and interest in this awards competition. This tribute to Greg is appropriate for that reason and also because he epitomizes the true spirit of a volunteer,” stated Connie Rhodes, Chairperson for the NAIOP-Maryland Awards Gala committee.

NAIOP-Maryland is the local chapter for NAIOP www.naiop.org, the nation's leading trade association for developers, owners, investors and other professionals in industrial, office and mixed-use commercial real estate. Comprised of more than 16,000 members in 55 chapters, it provides networking opportunities, educational programs, research on trends and innovations, strong legislative representation and community service.