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Forecasts from big bank economists and commercial real estate companies are using descriptors such as “market destruction” and “massive contraction” to describe second-quarter (Q2) economic conditions. Between Wednesday and Friday of last week, analysts revised assumptions downward but also predicted a rebound in Q3 and Q4 of 2020. A…
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Reimaging Baltimore
March 23, 2020Adaptive reuse brings new vision, new life to struggling areas For one happy, furry, carb-filled day last August, the building that has driven and symbolized the economy of Canton for more than a century went to the dogs. An industrial engine for nearly a century, the adapted, mixed-use Can…
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CRE Concepts: Mini-warehouses show big potential
March 23, 2020The tall, white interior walls are interrupted by splashes of colorful, graffiti-inspired painting. There are offices, a conference room, loading docks, industrial storage, workspaces with skylights, coffee service in the kitchen and a cluster of entrepreneurs hustling to grow their small businesses. This is not your typical warehouse. In the…
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This article appeared in the March/April 2020 issue of NAIOP-MD InSites Newsletter Buoyed by new clarity around federal tax laws and a stream of calls from investment funds, economic development professionals are anticipating new infusions of capital into real estate projects around Greater Baltimore. Federal officials finally approved regulations for…
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Bill Holzman (left), Vice President, Retail Leasing, St. John Properties; Kate Jordan (middle), Principal, Lee & Associates | Chesapeake Region; and Michael Tait (right), Leasing Manager, The Howard Hughes Corporation, gathered in Downtown Columbia to discuss leasing pace in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. marketplace, drivers expected to impact absorption in 2020…
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On the rooftops of three St. John Properties’ buildings, a sustainability initiative has been playing out for a decade. While investigating what sustainability practices made sense for its properties, St. John installed a 125-kilowatt solar array atop three, full-service, Class A office buildings in 2010. The systems which consist of…
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Before the end of 2020, parts of Baltimore’s waterfront could set a record by experiencing “sunny day flooding” at least 30 times within a year, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predict. In Annapolis, City Dock has already exceeded that frequency of sunny day floods. Consequently, the city…
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Spencer Levy, Chairman of Americas Research for CBRE, says “it is always darkest before the dawn” and explains that the recent market deterioration as a result from COVID-19 has caused an “unprecedented and unified global response from the United States Government and the governments of foreign countries to provide a…
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March 19, 2020 – Secretaries Kelly Schulz (Commerce) and Tiffany Robinson (Labor) hosted a March 16, 2020 conference call to brief business leaders on state actions relating to COVID-19 and how businesses can cope with the outbreak and the state of emergency. The two agencies are posting on-going updates…
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March 5, 2020 — A bill before Maryland’s General Assembly which would have expanded state sales tax to cover services, was unanimously rejected by a House subcommittee late Wednesday night. Earlier in the week, NAIOP Maryland testified to the House Ways and Means Committee that House Bill 1628 could…