06
Jul
2022
NAIOP State Advocacy Influences Legislative Outcomes for CRE
Posted On July 6, 2022  By Toby Burke  And has 4 Comments

Several state legislatures this year have debated legislation that would change the rules and policies impacting commercial real estate. In California and North Carolina, effective advocacy by the NAIOP chapters has protected and advanced the interests of the industry at the state levels. Through the chapters’ engagement […]

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15
Jun
2022
Permit Reform Legislation Advances Following NAIOP’s Advocacy Day in North Carolina
Posted On June 15, 2022  By Toby Burke  And has No Comment

Members from NAIOP’s three chapters in North Carolina traveled to Raleigh last week to advance the priorities of the commercial real estate development industry in meetings with state lawmakers. The top priority for NAIOP of North Carolina, the state alliance of NAIOP chapters, is the passage […]

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05
Jan
2022
State Advocacy Essential for NAIOP Chapters in 2022
Posted On January 5, 2022  By Toby Burke  And has 7 Comments

As the new year begins, lawmakers will begin returning to their chambers to discuss and debate numerous pieces of legislation. Congress is currently focused on President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better initiative and voting rights legislation, but conventional wisdom suggest that passage of meaningful, nonpartisan legislation […]

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07
Jul
2021
NAIOP of North Carolina Holds Successful Day at the State Capitol
Posted On July 7, 2021  By Toby Burke  And has 6 Comments

NAIOP of North Carolina recently hosted the first in-person Day at the State Capitol since the outbreak of the pandemic. It provided NAIOP members from the Charlotte, North Carolina Piedmont Triad, and Raleigh-Durham chapters with the opportunity to advocate for effective policies that advance commercial real […]

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19
May
2021
Effective Advocacy Leads to Legislative Victories in Florida
Posted On May 19, 2021  By Toby Burke  And has 13 Comments

The COVID-19 pandemic created new challenges in educating state and local lawmakers during this legislative year. NAIOP of Florida successfully adapted to these new challenges through a sustained advocacy approach that resulted in several legislative victories of importance to NAIOP and the commercial real estate industry. […]

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26
Jun
2019
Georgia’s FAST Act Delivers a Template for Regulatory Certainty
Posted On June 26, 2019  By Dwight Bell  And has No Comment

The year 2016 doesn’t seem as if it was that long ago, but three years is a lifetime if you’re waiting to obtain permits to build a project and instead you get caught up in regulatory red tape. Thanks to efforts led by NAIOP Georgia, the […]

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21
Mar
2019
NAIOP’s 2019 Days at the Capital Are Generating Successes
Posted On March 21, 2019  By Toby Burke  And has No Comment

NAIOP chapters are playing a critical role in advancing the interests of commercial real estate before policymakers. Our legislative days at the state capitol in particular are providing NAIOP members with an important opportunity to build relationships and educate state lawmakers on the important issues facing […]

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31
Jul
2017
Regaining Footing after September 11: A NAIOP Chairman Retrospective
Posted On July 31, 2017  By Sheila Vertino  And has No Comment

By 2001, when Anne Evans Estabrook chaired the NAIOP Corporate Board of Directors, the industry had recovered from the disastrous early 1990s and was riding the wild wave of tech tenants in the dot.com craze. “We had spent the last half of the decade building up […]

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08
Feb
2017
NAIOP Goes to the Hill
Posted On February 8, 2017  By Aquiles Suarez  And has No Comment

This week, as they do early each year, NAIOP members from all over the United States and Canada, as well as from AMPIP, our sister organization in Mexico, are attending NAIOP’s Chapter Leadership and Legislative Retreat (CL&LR) in Washington, D.C. At CL&LR, NAIOP leaders learn how […]

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15
Oct
2015
Fortune Favors the Brave
Posted On October 15, 2015  By Kathryn Hamilton, CAE  And has No Comment

Tom Ridge, first Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and former governor of Pennsylvania, took the stage Thursday for the Breakfast General Session Keynote at NAIOP’s Commercial Real Estate Conference 2015. As governor of Pennsylvania — for nine years, six months and five days, […]

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