04
Sep
2019
How Congress Can Boost the Economy This Fall
Posted On September 4, 2019  By Rich Tucker  And has No Comment

Some people say they do their best work under pressure. Hopefully, that’s true for lawmakers in Congress. After a long summer break, both Houses return to Washington next week. Lawmakers will be under pressure, because they’ve left themselves only 13 days when both Houses are in […]

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10
Jul
2019
California Initiative Could Provide Template to Target Commercial Real Estate
Posted On July 10, 2019  By Rich Tucker  And has No Comment

Big things often have the power to create their own environments. For example, Boeing built the largest factory building in the world in Everett, Washington, and it ended up generating its own weather system indoors. Likewise, California’s population and economy are so large that the state […]

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15
May
2019
Proposed Property Tax Initiative Endangers Prop 13 Protections
Posted On May 15, 2019  By James V. Camp  And has No Comment

Markets love certainty. Big jumps or big dips may be great opportunities for day traders to make money, but they’re risky for those in commercial real estate development. This was the case with property taxes in California before 1978 as localities randomly, and in some instances […]

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01
May
2019
Protect TIF, Promote Development in Wisconsin
Posted On May 1, 2019  By Jim Villa  And has No Comment

The following piece was written by Jim Villa ahead of the NAIOP Wisconsin chapter’s annual Day at the Capitol in Madison. It first appeared in the Milwaukee BizTimes and is reprinted here with permission. On a national level, politicians can’t seem to hammer out a deal […]

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30
Jan
2019
Tax Bill Provides CRE Investment Opportunities
Posted On January 30, 2019  By Rich Tucker  And has No Comment

The year began with a quarter of the federal government shut down, with economists warning that economic growth is likely to slow, and with the stock market coming off a bad ending to 2018. But there’s also a positive development that commercial real estate practitioners may be able […]

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06
Dec
2018
Crafting Tax Policy that Promotes Growth in Chicago
Posted On December 6, 2018  By Taivo E. Tammaru  And has No Comment

Policymakers in Washington often talk about using public-private partnerships to boost infrastructure spending and unlock value. Here in the Chicago area, local communities have actively and successfully implemented PPPs for years, largely in the form of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts. A new study just released […]

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05
Sep
2018
Proposed Hawaii Tax Could Devastate CRE Investment
Posted On September 5, 2018  By Scott Settle  And has No Comment

Virtually everyone agrees that educating our children is the most important thing a society can do. Doing so requires money, of course. But it also requires that the money be spent effectively. That’s especially important here in Hawaii, where we have a unique system for funding […]

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16
May
2018
Major Legislative Wins in 2018 for NAIOP Arizona
Posted On May 16, 2018  By Suzanne Kinney  And has No Comment

Editor’s note: NAIOP’s Government Affairs team will periodically highlight the legislative successes of our chapters at the state and local levels. This segment features NAIOP Arizona’s effective advocacy at the state level in 2018. Arizona is growing economically, and the commercial real estate industry is a key […]

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04
Apr
2018
Technical Corrections Are Follow-up to Tax Bill
Posted On April 4, 2018  By Rich Tucker  And has 1 Comment

Late last year, President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. As NAIOP President and CEO Thomas Bisacquino said at the time: “A landlord can only do as well as his or her tenants. Our expectation is that this tax reform legislation […]

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20
Dec
2017
Tax Reform Is Here
Posted On December 20, 2017  By Aquiles Suarez  And has No Comment

After many years of elected officials talking about our “broken tax code,” and fits and starts through several different congresses and presidential administrations, a comprehensive rewrite of our tax code is about to be enacted into law. The Senate followed the example of the House of […]

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