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Sustainability goals and requirements can be challenging in construction and renovation projects. But they can also be impressive, effective features that contribute to successful commercial real estate projects. Manufacturing site solutions Photo courtesy of Arium AE. Arium AE served as both the Architect and MEP Engineer for the…

Pictured from left to right: CREDA women presidents Abby Glassberg, Principal, KLNB (1998-1999); Dianna Wilhelm, Partner, Wilhelm Business Enterprises (2012-2013); Kate Jordan, Principal, Lee & Associates | Maryland (2024-present) and Cathy Ward, formerly Senior Vice President, Corporate Office Properties Trust (2006-2007). In the 40-year history of CREDA Maryland,…

Michael Tait, Leasing Representative, St. John Properties, Inc., has been named 2025 CREDA National Developing Leader of the Year. Tait is one of only four other members among the nearly 60 CREDA chapters to be awarded the honor this year. The National Developing Leader of the Year is awarded to…

The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) issued an order on June 13, 2025, directing changes to how utilities charge new customers for natural gas service and mainline extensions. The order directs the PSC technical staff to draft regulations by December 1, 2025, that require new natural gas…

Dianna Wilhelm — in her role as Membership Committee Chair in 2010 — knew CREDA Maryland needed to attract younger members to assure its future. She elicited the support of James F. Knott, Jr., to uncover creative ways to attract new industry professionals, and borrowed an idea successfully being…

The Maryland State Archives has abandoned a plan to put plats, deeds, mortgages and other critical public land records behind a paywall. The reversal comes after pushback from a broad coalition of real estate groups. CREDA first argued against the fee during the 2025 General Assembly session…

The trend started with workplace foosball tables, state-of-the-art fitness centers, yoga classes, free juice bars and free lunches. Companies were thinking of, and investing in, a variety of programs and incentives to entice their employees to return to the traditional workplace on a regular basis. Oxygen therapy Recently,…

Brokerages for the Archdiocese of Baltimore are currently working to sell the first five properties on a list of 38 surplussed Catholic parishes. The real estate specialty of selling shuttered churches, however, is far bigger than the selloff of Catholic properties and analysts say that niche practice is about to…

CREDA Maryland mourns the recent passing of Richard (“Dick”) William Story, 79, of Betterton, MD. Beginning in the late 1970s, Story worked for several county economic development groups, including the Carroll County Economic Development Commission, where he became the first full-time Executive Director, and the Howard County Economic Development Authority,…

In the early 2000s, Cathy Ward, then-Chairman of CREDA Maryland’s Legislative Committee, was concerned about the volume and complexity of state issues arising annually that affected commercial real estate. Managing new legislative and regulatory proposals had also become time-consuming work. “We had a small team of people working on…