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  Elected officials in Annapolis were under intense pressure from the Elevator Industry Work Preservation Fund, and Allsafe Elevator Inspections, the state’s largest inspection company, to deliver on election year legislation (House Bill 1107 – Public Safety – Elevator Inspections – Testing and Apprenticeship Program) which would return Maryland…

  For the second year in a row the Assembly rejected a misguided change to forest conservation requirements that was the top legislative priority of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Sierra Club and Maryland League of Conservation Voters. Motivated by opposition to land development projects in Frederick and Anne Arundel Counties…

  CREDA Maryland honored 37 different companies and organizations and 15 professionals in 34 separate categories at its bi-annual Awards of Excellence held April 19, 2018 in front of nearly 500 people at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. The program celebrates and recognizes the innovative achievements of regional commercial…

April 12, 2018 Summary of CRE in the 2018 Maryland General Assembly Session  Monday at midnight the Maryland General Assembly concluded a productive session where the looming accountability of standing for re-election spurred action on violent crime, school safety, softening of the calamitous tax increases resulting from…

    Gary Gill, Clark MacKenzie and Bob Aumiller Clark MacKenzie, Gary Gill and Bob Aumiller of The MacKenzie Companies have been named co-recipients of the 2018 CREDA Maryland “Lifetime Achievement Award” and will be honored at the commercial real estate organization’s bi-annual Awards of Excellence Gala this…

    Thomas Bisacquino, President and CEO of CREDA; Todd Summerfield, Liberty Property Trust; Tim O’Ferrall, Executive Director of CREDA Maryland; Vince Bagli of Merritt Properties and President, CREDA Maryland; and Jim Neyer, Chairman of CREDA. Todd Summerfield, Vice President, Leasing and Development for Liberty Property Trust, has…

  Reid Townsend (center) MRP Industrial, flanked by (left) Spencer Perry, BB and T and Chairman of CREDA Maryland Developing Leaders Committee and Vince Bagli, Merritt Properties and President, CREDA Maryland. At a recent event held at The James Joyce Irish Pub and Restaurant in Baltimore City, Reid Townsend, Co-Founder and Principal…

  Vince Bagli of Merritt Properties has been elected to a two-year term of President of CREDA Maryland, the local association comprised of more than 410 professionals working for real estate development organizations and affiliated companies such as financial institutions and architectural, accounting, law and brokerage firms. Other officers…

  Danielle Schline, Prologis; Greg Ferraro, JLL and Thomas Hinder, Prologis CREDA Maryland, the local association serving commercial real estate development firms, owners, investors and related companies, has reached the 400 membership mark for the first time in its more than thirty-year history. CREDA Maryland was elevated to…

  Richard Williamson, St. John Properties; Brendan Gill, The MacKenzie Companies and CREDA Maryland President; Spencer Levy, CBRE; Vince Bagli, Jr., Merritt Properties and CREDA Maryland President-Elect                       “Labor is everything,” a mantra Spencer Levy, Senior Economic Advisor and Americas…