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The Maryland Department of the Environment has provided advance notice of proposed revisions to the state’s stormwater management regulations and stormwater design manual.  Written comments on the advance-notice version of the draft regulations and design manual will be accepted through December 19, 2025. The advance notice comment period is…

As the federal government shutdown reaches the one-month mark, commercial real estate professionals are assessing the closure’s current and potential impacts on the CRE sector. Maryland is positioned to incur some of the biggest impacts in the country. The federal government is the single largest employer in the state…

The addition of a pickleball venue helped Carroll County reach an impressive milestone: less than one percent vacancy in warehouse/industrial product. Earlier this year, PickleRage signed a 31,000-square-foot lease at the Londontown Business Center in Eldersburg, taking another large space off the market and helping drop the vacancy rate. By…

Photos courtesy of Steve Adams, AAEDC. New commercial permits in Anne Arundel County posted striking gains in the second quarter, due largely to strong activity in retail, restaurant and mixed-use properties, according to the Anne Arundel County Economic Development Corporation (AAEDC). New commercial permits rose 75 percent…

Anne Arundel County Executive Stuart Pittman is looking to expand the county’s adequate public facilities (APF) requirements to include bicycle, pedestrian and transit infrastructure. Pittman has introduced Council Bill 81-25, which would replace the existing Bicycle, Pedestrian and Transit Assessment (BPTA) with an expanded APF test and mitigation requirements…

During the go-go days of the warehouse/industrial market, which peaked in 2021 and 2022, developers seemingly could not construct buildings large enough and fast enough to satisfy the requirements of end-users. The real estate industry, however, is cyclical and now, the industrial market is seeing the rise of a new…

The headlines only provide a glimpse of the market trend. News articles in recent months have announced plans to build a 240-unit luxury senior housing complex on six acres of the Suburban Club, a 105,000-square-foot independent living/assisted living/memory care facility at the corner of Falls Road and Northern Parkway, two…

After months of meetings and detailed debates about the nature of signs and branding in an evolving commercial world, participants in an Anne Arundel County work group are hopeful the county will soon adopt improved, if more complex, regulations about signage. The initiative was geared in part to ensure the…

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the imposition and alteration of numerous import tariffs, shifting economic outlooks, the prospect of a new container terminal, and the completion of CSX’s Howard Street Tunnel project have conjured a mix of prospects, problems and uncertainties for traffic through the…

Professionals engaged in the commercial real estate sector join and maintain their membership in NAIOP Maryland for varied reasons and, during our 40-year anniversary celebration, we sought perspectives into the specific value propositions of the association. Their responses touch on the wide-ranging career-advancing, educational, and networking benefits provided, in addition…