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Ranked as the highest performing asset class in commercial real estate for years, today’s industrial market in Maryland is anything but a simple path to robust profits, rapid deals or shovel-ready development opportunities. The state’s industrial sector is experiencing high occupancy levels, healthy rent increases, space requirements from a diverse…

The debate over decarbonizing Maryland buildings is about to enter a new round and that could present opportunities to commercial real estate owners. Shortly before the 2024 General Assembly session ended, legislators amended the state budget to prevent the Department of the Environment (MDE) from spending any funds on “adopting,…

From secure building entrances and radio frequency blocking devices to elaborate lighting, colorful walkways and high-quality pedestrian environments, CRE professionals are employing a variety of discreet techniques to make properties safer and more secure. Many office properties have long employed core design principles to heighten the safety of workers and…

(Left to right) Marty Copsey, President and COO, MacKenzie Contracting Company; Holly Haseltine, Manager, Lease Administration, MCB Real Estate; Johnny Black, Managing Partner, Chesapeake Search Partners. Companies invest considerable resources to recruit and train all sections of their workforce, so it is imperative to maintain challenging, comfortable, and…

Owen Rouse, Senior Vice President, MacKenzie Commercial Real Estate Services, LLC, recently reflected on the journey taken over his more than 40-year commercial real estate career, a path in which he has functioned in disciplines including investment, acquisition and disposition, development, and capital markets. The 2024 NAIOP-MD Lifetime Achievement…

What started 19 years ago as a contract between NAIOP Maryland and Manis Canning & Associates to mount a lobbying effort on a single bill has flourished into expansive advocacy effort that tackles hundreds of pieces of legislation annually and ensures the perspective of the commercial real estate industry…

Some projects do more than deliver a building. Some change communities. In Columbia, COPT Defense Properties found a solution to a longstanding need by the United Way of Central Maryland. The nonprofit was striving to build a Family Center which could provide affordable childcare to low- and moderate-income families…

From biophilic features in a mass timber building to custom-built offices in the heart of a mixed-use community to the reinvention of a downtown skyscraper, many of NAIOP Maryland’s 2024 Awards of Excellence winners created exemplary, even visionary, places to work. At Merriweather Row, Howard Hughes Holdings…

Service Provider Award Kelly Ennis The Verve Partnership With Kelly Ennis at its helm, The Verve Partnership delivers extraordinary attention to detail, presents tangible solutions to space planning challenges, and produces interior environments that foster productivity and a healthy work setting. Forward-thinking and dynamic, Ennis has…

Serving the massive, fast-paced and high-tech needs of today’s industrial market requires CRE professionals to be nimble and inventive. Several winners of NAIOP Maryland’s 2024 Awards of Excellence met those needs by delivering properties that were huge, complex and, in some cases, beyond the norms of industrial architecture.