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  • A conversation with Owen Rouse

    A conversation with Owen Rouse

    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…

  • Two-decade effort creates effective CRE lobby in Annapolis

    Two-decade effort creates effective CRE lobby in Annapolis

    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…

  • Projects deliver impact throughout communities

    Projects deliver impact throughout communities

    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 rooftop terraces to pickleball: Modern design and amenities create enticing workspaces

    From rooftop terraces to pickleball: Modern design and amenities create enticing workspaces

    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…

  • Individual Awards

    Individual Awards

    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…

  • Large, fast and technical: Industrial tenants present major CRE needs

    Large, fast and technical: Industrial tenants present major CRE needs

    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.

  • Rapid recovery, economic aid ease impact of bridge collapse

    Rapid recovery, economic aid ease impact of bridge collapse

    In the predawn hours of Tuesday, March 26, efforts began to comprehend and address the impacts of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse on industrial tenants around the port. First responders were conducting a perilous search and rescue operation for six construction workers who died in the…

  • Colorado Building Performance Standards challenged in federal court

    Colorado Building Performance Standards challenged in federal court

    NAIOP Colorado has joined with the Colorado Apartment Association and the Colorado Hotel and Lodging Association to challenge the legality and economic feasibility of the Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) adopted by the state of Colorado and the City of Denver. The outcome of this litigation could influence how Maryland…

  • Boutique wellness concepts tackle the Goldilocks Principle

    Boutique wellness concepts tackle the Goldilocks Principle

    At Revive Cryo Spa, the body is exposed to negative 150 degrees which drops a person’s core temperature by approximately 40 degrees. Too cold or too hot? That is the question. Athletes famously soak in ice-filled tubs to reduce muscle inflammation following a strenuous workout…

  • Wildflowers, butterflies and newlyweds

    Wildflowers, butterflies and newlyweds

    NAIOP-MD volunteers delivered lasting benefits for nature center One year after more than 130 NAIOP Maryland volunteers descended on Irvine Nature Center for its bi-annual Community Service program, the impact of their work is being felt by the nonprofit and tens of thousands of visitors. “We have…