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(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…

The 55 community solar installations planned for Public Storage facilities in Maryland will create 27.9 megawatts of solar capacity – enough to power nearly 2,600 homes. Photo courtesy of Solar Landscape. A Maryland law that permits unlimited community solar installations is presenting a new business…

Industry/innovation, place/community, and talent/people will be the three keys to growing economic opportunities in greater Baltimore over the next decade, according to a newly released report. The Greater Baltimore Committee (GBC) unveiled its 10-year economic opportunity plan for the metropolitan region at an event held at Tradepoint…

Maryland Governor Wes Moore has signed an executive order directing state agencies to implement the Department of the Environment’s Climate Pollution Reduction Plan. The executive order creates a Subcabinet on Climate to coordinate implementation. It will be chaired by the Secretary of the Environment…

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.