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August 6, 2020 – Traditionally dominated by older, white men, the commercial real estate industry has supported numerous diversity initiatives in recent decades. To date, however, those have generated only moderate success. To support greater diversity within CRE, professionals will need to engage in honest conversations and commit to…

After making gifts to World Central Kitchen and The Choice Program at University of Maryland Baltimore County this spring, CREDA Maryland recently completed $5,000 donations to the Baltimore County COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund and Community Action Council (CAC) of Howard County. Each contribution was funded from proceeds generated by…

It’s sweet, green, a hive of activity, a way to de-stress in the thick of 2020 and a fledgling commercial real estate trend. Photos courtesy of Alvéole and COPT Commercial property managers have started enlisting the services of urban beekeepers to install and tend to honeybee hives on…

Photo courtesy of My Cleaning Service The sanitization and cleanliness of interior office spaces has moved to the forefront of workers’ minds during COVID-19. As a result, some companies are not just beefing up cleaning processes but making them highly visible to building occupants. Silent workers is the…

July 9, 2020 – “Industrial is, has been and will continue to be more resilient than other real estate property types.” Kate Nolan Bryden That’s how Kate Nolan Bryden, Senior Vice President of MRP Industrial, summarized speakers’ comments and key takeaways from the recent CREDA I.CON Virtual 2020…

July 9, 2020 – As commercial property owners and tenants consider best options for bringing workers back to their sites, the U.S. Green Building Council has released safe re-entry guidelines, related LEED credits and a technology platform to assess the effectiveness of new workplace protocols. LEED’s Safety First…

July 9, 2020 – A recent survey about workstyle preferences generated tremendous news for the commercial real estate development community, according to Diane Hoskins, co-CEO of Gensler. Among participants in the survey which was conducted in April and May, only 12% of employees indicated the preference to work from…

Spencer Levy, CBRE June 25, 2020 – Reinforcing comments he delivered during a CREDA Maryland webinar this spring, Spencer Levy, Chairman of Americas Research and Senior Economic Advisor for CBRE, remains unabashedly optimistic about the short- and long-term future of the industrial and commercial office sector. Levy’s one caveat…

June 25, 2020 – The steep and widespread economic downturn sparked by COVID-19 has simultaneously tested developer-tenant relations and fostered a new wave of collaboration between CRE companies and their tenants. Immediately after the state-wide shutdown of businesses began, Klein Enterprises formed a rent relief team consisting of…

What will your summer vacation plans look like this year? Karen S. CherryVice President, Office LeasingThe Howard Hughes Corporation “Unfortunately, my summer vacation plans have already been impacted. We had planned a week-long family trip out west to Colorado and Utah. Many of the national parks are reopened but…