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April 12, 2018 Summary of CRE in the 2018 Maryland General Assembly Session  Monday at midnight the Maryland General Assembly concluded a productive session where the looming accountability of standing for re-election spurred action on violent crime, school safety, softening of the calamitous tax increases resulting from federal tax reform…

    Gary Gill, Clark MacKenzie and Bob Aumiller Clark MacKenzie, Gary Gill and Bob Aumiller of The MacKenzie Companies have been named co-recipients of the 2018 NAIOP Maryland “Lifetime Achievement Award” and will be honored at the commercial real estate organization’s bi-annual Awards of Excellence Gala this…

    Thomas Bisacquino, President and CEO of NAIOP; Todd Summerfield, Liberty Property Trust; Tim O’Ferrall, Executive Director of NAIOP Maryland; Vince Bagli of Merritt Properties and President, NAIOP Maryland; and Jim Neyer, Chairman of NAIOP. Todd Summerfield, Vice President, Leasing and Development for Liberty Property Trust, has…

  Reid Townsend (center) MRP Industrial, flanked by (left) Spencer Perry, BB and T and Chairman of NAIOP Maryland Developing Leaders Committee and Vince Bagli, Merritt Properties and President, NAIOP Maryland. At a recent event held at The James Joyce Irish Pub and Restaurant in Baltimore City, Reid Townsend, Co-Founder and Principal…

  Vince Bagli of Merritt Properties has been elected to a two-year term of President of NAIOP Maryland, the local association comprised of more than 410 professionals working for real estate development organizations and affiliated companies such as financial institutions and architectural, accounting, law and brokerage firms. Other officers…

  Danielle Schline, Prologis; Greg Ferraro, JLL and Thomas Hinder, Prologis NAIOP Maryland, the local association serving commercial real estate development firms, owners, investors and related companies, has reached the 400 membership mark for the first time in its more than thirty-year history. NAIOP Maryland was elevated to…

  Richard Williamson, St. John Properties; Brendan Gill, The MacKenzie Companies and NAIOP Maryland President; Spencer Levy, CBRE; Vince Bagli, Jr., Merritt Properties and NAIOP Maryland President-Elect                       “Labor is everything,” a mantra Spencer Levy, Senior Economic Advisor and Americas…

  Approximately thirty members of the NAIOP Maryland Developing Leaders group removed nails from lumber, moved around and arranged merchandise, sorted lumber and helped out where necessary at the non-profit Second Chance facility in Baltimore City last week. The effort was arranged as part of the Developing Leaders regular Community Service endeavors. A $2500…

  Tom Ballentine, Vice President for Policy and Government Relations, NAIOP Maryland; Jim Lighthizer, Chesapeake Real Estate Group; Brendan Gill, The MacKenzie Companies and President, NAIOP Maryland; Benjamin Grumbles, Maryland Secretary of the Environment; John Hermann, Corporate Office Properties Trust. Speaking before members of the NAIOP Maryland Developers Council attending a luncheon at The Capital Grille, Maryland…

  More than 100 members of the Building Congress & Exchange and NAIOP Maryland gathered for a project tour of The Merriweather District in downtown Columbia recently. Greg Fitchitt, Senior Vice President, Development for The Howard Hughes Corporation and Ian Kennedy, Executive Director of the Downtown Columbia Arts and Culture Commission addressed the crowd with updates on various projects underway including…