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2023 Inclusive Leadership Certificate Program

Generational Fluency – Jan. 31, 1-3 PM ET

With the fast pace of change in American society, each generation has grown up in a different world, resulting in social and cultural differences that shape mindsets and expectations. Without the right understanding, these perspectives can collide and cause conflict, even when everyone means well, and wreak havoc on workplace morale and bottom-line results.

In this foundational and interactive session, theoretical, historical and practical insights will be leveraged to present a high-level view of the generations in the workforce and how to bring them together for greater understanding – and more effective working relationships.

Intercultural Competency – Feb. 2, 1-3 PM ET

Our personal backgrounds influence our perspective. Among a wide spectrum of backgrounds within the workplace, it’s no wonder different perspectives can sometimes cause conflict or misunderstanding … even when everyone means well. It doesn’t have to be that way.

With the right understanding, our different views can serve as our greatest strength. In this session, participants will learn how to break down barriers that divide and build up awareness that unites and empowers all people to create a more inclusive and innovative future.

Emotional Intelligence and Inclusive Communication, Feb. 7, 1-3 PM ET

Emotional intelligence- also known as EQ- is a leadership buzzword, but does it mean? How can you gain or enhance it? Where do you start?

In this workshop, you will gain practical insights and tools to recognize, understand and manage your own and others’ emotions in positive ways that ensure your communications are heard and understood by all members of your team – increasing cohesion, boosting morale, and reducing conflict.

Intentional Culture Creation, Feb. 9, 1-3 PM ET

Belonging, a sense of fitting in, is a basic human need that, according to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, is necessary before self-esteem and reaching full potential and optimal performance.

Among a diverse mix of perspectives in the workplace, it’s challenging to create a culture where all people belong and are empowered to thrive yet strive towards a common goal. In this session, you will learn how to design a culture conducive for diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, and experiences while ensuring a shared language and expectation set, and movement towards a common goal.

Program Instructor

Jessica Stollings-Holder is a national speaker, trainer, author and researcher who empowers leaders to think differently about differences and turn obstacles into opportunities. Jessica is passionate about helping all people feel understood, included, and valued. She knows how differences can help, not hinder, business. And she helps leaders leverage the qualities that make each member of their team unique into an action plan to make teams more successful.

The Inclusive Leadership Certificate Program features a series of four, two-hour, interactive webinars designed to help individuals build skills that are essential to become inclusive leaders. Participants who fully complete a minimum of three of the four sessions will earn an official Inclusive Leadership Certificate. Sign up today to take part in the nationally award winning Inclusive Leadership Certificate Program

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Lessons in Leadership

with Carla Moule, Michael Lopez, Natalie Tyler-Martin, and Todd Mitchell

In October, four leaders across different sections of the CRE industry were brought together to discuss and present on leadership.

This incredibly panel spoke on investing in future leaders, growing teams, mental health, and much more. The four were Carla Moule, Michael Lopez, Natalie Tyler-Martin, and Todd Mitchell. Here is some of what they spoke on.

Medical Offices

Carla Moule | Lillibridge

Lillibridge manages medical office real estate nationwide as well as seniors housing across the globe. My territory is Atlanta, Tennessee, and the Florida Panhandle.

In medical, we look at things a little differently. I have worked in residential, industrial, class A office, and now medical so I have experience in a few product types. And the main differences with Medical and industrial or office is what’s important to our tenants?

Our tenants are doctors. They are there to administer patient care, they are not necessarily there to care about the building.

We work a lot with the practice manager, with the business office. The decision makers are going to be in the C-Suite those are the people that we kind of focus on and you know, we take care of our doctors, we take everything away from them in terms of caring about the building.

They are concerned with safety; they’re concerned with cleanliness. They’re concerned with the overall facility. The image of it.

Our job is to deliver excellence and do our best to be keep the running of the facility out of the doctors’ minds. That and to provide exceptional service to them as best we can.

Leadership is an Investment

Leadership isn’t something that I originally invested in myself. Gosh, I had so many leaders who invested in me through my career and finally I invested in myself fully with the Leadership Master’s program through BOMA, which was completely life changing for me professionally and personally.

Medical office is a little bit different I guess from industrial and office and different product types that can manage but really, at leadership and management is just about taking care of the people, right?

The people within an organization. It doesn’t matter what type of product you’re managing or building you’re walking into. If you care about the people that work with your team and you invest the time in them then that’s going to be a benefit to you both professionally, your organization, and you personally.

I’m really open with my team so that they can hold me accountable too and that’s the kind of relationship that I work to build with my team.

I’m a person. If I’m vulnerable and open with [team members] then I want to know their cats’ names and I want to know what they did over the weekend.

I want to take those 10 - 15 minutes to sit and have coffee with them. I’m going to do that because they’re also going to be accountable for me.

Investing in Yourself

I am really invested in both the personal and professional development of everyone on my team. Myself included. I think that we [as leaders] have to stop and invest in ourselves first so that we can show up and leave everything else at the door.

I take a deep breath before I walk into the office every day and just check my stuff at the door so that I can be as present and accountable and show up for my team every single day.

I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I listen to a lot of audiobooks. I do a lot of work on self-help. mental health. Those things are really important to me, as a person, and I spend a lot of time to listen to my team.

But I find it really important to feed myself with information that isn’t necessarily topical, and I listen to a lot of stuff about my industry too. I feel like, I need to be kind of a subject matter expert on that as well.

It’s my career. It’s what I enjoy.

It’s what I do.

Building Engineering Michael Lopez | Cousins

For those who don’t know me, my name is Michael Lopez. I’m the group engineering manager for Cousins Properties here in Atlanta. I oversee and help the team.

Basically, I’m just an assistant for the teams in the Atlanta portfolio. I’ve been in this field since 1986. I came up through the ranks. And done the good bad ugly about coming up through the ranks and it’s something that we all do, and we’ve done it for decades.

The Engineer’s Predicament

In the engineering side we take great mechanics we take very good technicians, and they do an excellent job for us. And then, the next day, we turn them into managers.

Suddenly, they’re having to manage this team. And we go on about our job. We have not given them the training and the tools that they need to be successful. It’s been that way for years.

I was very happy when I moved from Southern California to Georgia to get involved with BOMA and the classes and everything they offer for the engineering side.

It is fantastic. I can’t encourage my team enough to participate in these classes. It is very difficult for someone coming up through the ranks. Especially if they’re staying in the location that they are. They’re a great technician. They get promoted.

And now they’re running the team that they were buddies with two days ago and we just don’t support them as well.

I came up through that, and everybody has had those managers, my way or the highway, you either do it the way I want you to do it or get gone. Or you have the other manager who really doesn’t care. Telling you “I don’t care, just go handle it. I don’t want to be involved, just take care of whatever it needs to be done.”

I’m a pleaser, I like taking care of everybody. I want to make sure everybody is handled. Everything is done. I can get stuff handled without a problem, but like they say, it drains you. It takes a lot out of you to do that over a decade. Over the last 10 years I have watched a ship through different styles of managers and leaders.

Growing Your Team

I’ve been very fortunate to have very good mentors and leaders take me under their wing and educate me on a positive way to do things with my team and in the last five years we have taken a culture that was very mediocre, and we have changed it.

Now I can say we have 70 people on our team, and I don’t have one person on that team that’s on a list that I even have a concern about. There’s not a person on that team that you can’t go to and ask them what our core values are, and they will literally just list them off in 5-seconds to tell you why they do it.

We’ve had teams go out there and take our core values and spray paint them on walls in their building areas just to promote it. It is fantastic. That kind of change comes from a lot of work from the leaders and the leadership.

But my question is who are the leaders? Your chief engineer is your assistant chief. Those are the leaders. Those are the ones who really need to be supported. Those are the ones that are needing our attention. They need our help.

If you have not spent time in the last week with your chief engineer or your assistant chief engineer and had a 5-minute conversation on wow their life is outside of work, why not?

You want to build that relationship. You have to build those relationships if you want them to perform for you. If you want their loyalty and, more than anything else, if you want their respect, grow that relationship.

Goal Setting

Why are we doing this? What is our goal? Where what are we trying to achieve? Yes, we run Class A office buildings. We get what we do with the brick and mortar. We take care of all the electrical and HVAC, but what is the ultimate goal?

Are we responsible to our stockholders are we working for the CEO? If you can give your team a clear goal and be transparent as possible on how to achieve that goal that would be tremendous. If you can sit down with your chief and say OK, budget season’s come in, this is what we need to do.

And it helped them to be part of that and then they’re going to turn around and get their assistant involved.

It gives other engineers involved and everybody takes a little piece of that pie and works on it and they all feel like they’re part of the community or all part of getting that budget done.

And then in the following year when you guys are talking about OK, we have X amount of funds and we have to do it by this time, everybody understands what we’re trying to do and why we’re doing it this way instead of “Hey just get it done.”

And getting to that end goal might not be easy, there might be a lot of things to overcome to get to that goal. There might be financial obligations that may or may not be met. You’ve got customers in there somewhere that you. Have to deal with. You’ve got your engineering team, you have your management team.

Are they on board? There’s a lot of moving pieces to achieving these goals, and I pride myself on one of my goals and one of my jobs as being the group engineering manager for Cousins is my job is to remove roadblocks.

Transparency

I know as managers we always cannot be as transparent as we like. We have to find that happy balance to be as transparent as possible. The more information they have, the more they feel included in what’s going on. That turns into more productivity, more loyalty, and more respect from them.

I always ask them don’t respect the position, respect me, and if you don’t respect me then I’m doing something wrong.

I have been brought up through the ranks like and one thing was always said to you years ago. If you do your job and somebody can replace you, then you’ve done your job as a leader.

And that is my ultimate goal. If I can find people at any point in time in my team that can take my job and I can move on to go do something else, I consider that a success.

Industrial Real Estate

Natalie Tyler-Martin

I’m all industrial. I love industrial hands-down, but here’s the deal, there’s no difference. It’s all customer service. It’s right at the end of the day. We’re all here to serve our customers. My customer just come into work looking a little different.

Their buildings are a little different, but at the end of the day our role is to make sure our tenants can run their operations. The last thing we ever want is for one of our tenants to not be able to operate because of the building.

It’s customer service, its problem solving. It’s just figuring it out and making sure that you do the best job possible. A friend of mine recently made the analogy. On the team it’s not the name that’s on the back, but it’s the name that’s on the front of the jersey.

And you have to remember, it’s not, “we were in these situations” it’s not an “I as a leader,” it’s all about “we,” and we are in this thing together. We go in the fire together and we come out of the fire together.

I somewhat grew up through the ranks, from static property manager to a VP, Regional Asset Management, and then earlier this year I switched over to leasing and development.

When I think about leadership, on leading a team and leading yourself, it’s all about self-awareness. I think, as leaders, we should be trying to do a better job of taking care of ourselves.

You have to take that time to take care of yourself because being a leader is filling other’s cups. And you have to learn how to kind of take that time to refill your cup so that you can fill someone else’s cut, because that’s what we’re doing.

We’re filling every cup. We work for our teams, but you have to be very intentional on taking that time.

Defining Leadership

Three words for leadership, empathy, authenticity, and vulnerability. That’s what it really comes down to because leadership is about people. Sometimes leadership and management get intertwined. They’re two different things. Leadership is about people; managing is about a process.

Sometimes we try to manage people with a process, but they’re humans, right? And so taking that moment to really spend time and really know your teams and know yourself.

Because we’re all special and different, but how do you manage who are you as an individual and bringing that person every day to work goes a long way in setting vision and building those relationships. It gets you to the end goal.

And it is draining. That’s why you have to do self-care. It takes a lot of work, working out whatever you need to fill your cup. You’ve got to be very intentional about that because it’s easy to get drained. Especially in this space where we’re all on call 24/7.

You have to take a break. Sometimes you have to intentionally say; I need a moment. And being in this space as leaders, we have to give that to our to our teams, to take that moment of break. And we need to take that moment too, for ourselves.

Those are my three words, and while we have all hit on them, they are critical in defining leadership for me.

Working for your Team

I work for my team. My goal is for my team to have all the resources that they need to be successful. I have to empower them and trust them to overcome. I am there to protect them. I am their backstop, but I’m going to empower them to go make the decision, you have to make the decision.

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Let them know as a leader “I got you what do you need?” Even in failure, support them.

Wherever the chips fall, that’s where they fall. Let the team know “I’m going to support you.” We have to fail to learn. I’m trying to teach my 5-year-old failure.

You have to almost get comfortable with failure because otherwise you’ll just stay in a safe space, and nothing really cannot move the needle within that safe space.

Learn from Failure

What happens when a team that is cohesive and working together fails? What are they going to do? they’re going to regroup and figure out what they did wrong or what did not work. They’re going to pick it up and move it forward, and they’re going to do it again.

They’re going to do it again and then the next time they have a system to make it so that will never happen again.

That didn’t work, let’s go this way. Done, moving on. And this all ties into creating a camaraderie that happens at the same time, that happens with failure.

Failure is a gift and I think so often we spend our time, especially when we are managing, trying to prevent failure versus celebrating the failures. But if you’re leading, you have to have vision.

There’s so much out there that you cannot see right? And you have to be comfortable with that. But you know that you’re going to hit the end, your team will reach that goal, because everyone’s focused and committed on the same goal. As a leader, you have to create that space of “Go do it, I’ve got you.”

Empower them to make these decisions. When a team member comes to me asking for help, I’ve got their back and that’s where the leadership role comes in.

I look at myself as someone who works for my team, because as long as they are successful, everything else works perfectly. I want them to have everything in my heart, I want them to have everything that they need.

Commercial Real Estate

Todd Mitchell | BrIDge

Let’s take a couple moments and reflect on some of the key Let’s take a couple moments and reflect on some of the key concepts that were highlighted.

I think what we heard pretty clearly is people first, right and emphasis and focus on people. If you are a leader, and your focus isn’t people? It suggests you aren’t a leader.

I don’t know if this was an original quote or not, but a leader without followers is just somebody out taking a walk. You can’t have followers if people don’t feel cared about important in a part of the process.

People first. Everything in our industry, whether we’re business development, sales professionals, or operations professionals. On engineering or the administrative side, it doesn’t matter.

Everything is people, everything has always been people, everything always will be people.

Supporting the Team

Once, as a leader, you accept that reality, that focus, you work for your team. Natalie and Michael both alluded that they work for their teams. I’m taking this step further. They’re not my team.

It’s the team I support, they’re not mine, they don’t belong to me. It’s the team I support.

Being intentional on using that language to make the point that we’re here for those team members. And that’s important, because really, the whole thing revolves around culture. Everything these three exceptional leaders talked about ties back to building a strong culture.

And that’s not easy to build. We use that word, “build,” very casually, but building something suggests that there is work involved. And there is work involved in in building culture.

There is work involved in not only scheduling time for yourself but having the discipline to then follow through and do that thing that you scheduled because, I don’t care how good a leader or manager you are, you know what’s really easy if you’re not honest with yourself?

It’s to be intentional about putting others and everything else first and sliding by because you don’t want to deal with yourself. Which gets back to Natalie’s point on awareness.

You can’t just say, “yeah, I know I should take time for mindfulness, but now I want to focus on someone else, I’ll focus on one of the team members out in the field that needs something. And I’ll choose to focus on that rather than focus on me.” Leaders put that focus on themselves.

Lessons in Leadership

Set the example, encourage self-care and taking that time, and still get it done. Whatever needs to be done right, whatever the team needs to accomplish has to get accomplished. The leader sticks to that and sets the example.

Then other team members tie back into the cultural paradigm that Michael has talked about and helping your team feel empowered and they can still step off and catch their breath and ask for help or ask for questions.

So it’s people, it’s culture. It’s not only setting a quarterly cocktail hours or group meetings, it’s not just showing up. It’s being incredibly present when you get there. Be present for your team.

Everything is people. Everything has always been people. And everything always will be people.

Carla Moule serves as General Manager with Lillibridge Healthcares Services Inc. She has been a member of BOMA Georgia since 2010 and supported the association in numerous positions, most recently serving as the 2022 Vice President.

Michael Lopez serves as Group Engineering Manager with Cousins Properties, Inc. He was recognized in 2017 by the City of Atlanta as an Individual Champion in the Atlanta Better Buildings Challenge.

Natalie Tyler-Martin, RPA, is a thought leader in industrial real estate. She most recently served as the 2021 BOMA Georgia President, and was named the 2021 BOMA Southern Region Member of the Year.

Todd Mitchell, RPA, CCIM serves as Director of Property Management with Bridge Commercial Real Estate LLC. He served as BOMA Georgia’s 2017 President, and has served in numerous roles within the association.

It Takes a Village: Community Impact and CRE

By: Dusty Muck

Commercial real estate is one of the largest industries in the country, and the impact it can have on economies is measured in billions of dollars and thousands of jobs.

However, CRE can have both positive and negative impacts on communities, and it is critical for real estate investors and stakeholders to take a strong approach in mitigating and eliminating the difficulties that can stem from the growth of commercial real estate.

I sat down with Todd Mitchell, Director of Property Management with Bridge Commercial Real Estate, to discuss the community impact of CRE, and how those in the industry can positively affect their communities.

Community Impact

“Let me start here, by acknowledging, society is and has been for a long time, really based on NIMBYism. (Not in My Backyard) We are from the word go,” as Commercial Real Estate Professionals, “working to overcome negative perceptions when the news of a new Commercial Real Estate Project pops up in their neighborhood.” Mitchell explained.

“The first thing that comes to everybody’s mind is “Oh my Goodness, traffic is going to be awful, and you are going to impact my neighborhood.”

“I am very mindful of a cool little business district in Birmingham called Five Point South and the local community’s response, when a Chick Fil A was proposed.”

“This is a business district that already has a lot of restaurants in it, places of worship, residences, a high school and is situated near UAB’s campus and yet the local community did not allow them to put in a drive-through.”

“It is a Chick Fil A without a drive-through!” Laughed Mitchell. “Which may be the most ironic thing I had ever heard. And it was because the community, during the development process felt, you are going to drive so much more traffic in an area that already has traffic that they, literally, restricted the restaurant’s ability to have a drive-through.”

Creating Buy-In

So how are Commercial Real Estate Professionals supposed to get ahead of these negative connotations associated with a new development. How do we create buy-in?

Mitchell was able to shed light on this important question.

“I think it is incumbent on real estate professionals to really understand in some detail, the full array of everything that is going to impact the community on a positive side, not only understand it, but to convey it in a proactive manner.”

“We always have the low hanging fruit up our sleeves that we talk about and maybe we talk about it too much. We convey things like how we are going to generate jobs both construction and permanent for whatever is here afterwards.”

“Anybody can and will do that, but one of the things I always encourage Property Managers to consider and think about in their conversations is our impact to the tax digest. To the extent that we successfully manage and operate our buildings we execute our business plans that the owners have, we are generating a fair amount of tax revenue.” Mitchell explained.

“Now on a much smaller basis, what can an individual property team do? An individual property team, and I am not referring to just the Property Manager and Engineer, but partners like Rubbermaid, the security company, the janitorial company, the parking vendor.”

“On an individual basis, I think it is important for the property teams to understand where their property is located and what is around them and make an effort to understand any local history of that local community and be thoughtful of what impact you could have.”

Tax Dollars at Work

“One of the things that CRE means to the community is Gramma gets her trash picked up and Uncle Joe gets his potholes filled on his street. There is police presence, there is fire and rescue services.”

Mitchell continued. “All those basic services, that any community, any municipality, no matter how small or large a metro area, all rely on those very basic services and many of which are supported by the projects we own and operate.”

“And they would have serious budget constraints if we did not operate in a successful manner and our contribution to the tax revenue roles wasn’t what it is.”

“The local community would have a lot less streets paved, a whole lot less trash picked up and whole lot less fire and police protection. And those are some of the basics. I think for a starter, we need to be more aware of that and more creative in our approach.”

“Now, fast forward going beyond the basics what could a community, an elected official, and zoning people expect?”

“I think more and more the discussions and modern real estate economics have pivoted to an environmental, social and governance (ESG), an adjacent concept to diversity, equity and inclusion.”

“And I think all operators, especially large ones, feel pressure from how investment capital markets world views these concepts vis a vie any project that a given operator might be involved in.”

“So, right off the bat, large scale developers are going into developments eyes wide open having early and ongoing conversations with elected officials and local community members.” Explained Mitchell.

“One of the things within the city proper of Atlanta that is sort of a tangential concept is an NPU. (Neighborhood Planning Unit) “

“These are the people inside any given local community that come together and want to understand how a development is going to affect their real estate.”

“That is a concept that is specific to the city proper of Atlanta, but I would imagine it’s replicated out in suburban communities and other large markets in the southeast and other large markets throughout the US.”

“These organizations come together to talk about the office building, the hotel, the neighborhood grocery anchored center that is coming to their neighborhood.”

“What they want, what they feel it ought to look like, and certainly back to the concept of equity in development.”

Invest for the Future

“Many communities across the country and in metro Atlanta in particular, you see a bifurcation of investment.”

“In Atlanta it is at almost a perfect line at Interstate 20 that runs east and west cutting Atlanta in half. North of I-20, you see the parks look greener, the buildings stand taller, the grocery stores actually exist.”

“South of I-20, I double dog dare you to go find a Publix until you get to McDonough or Peachtree City which are two cities well south of Atlanta. Well, that is all beginning to change now because large developers and operators of commercial real estate know that is a long-standing request of the local communities.” Explained Mitchell.

“Now, it doesn’t mean they didn’t have a vision of how they anticipated the overarching development to turn out. They still ensured it worked for their pro forma, their investment thesis. But they did take the time to engage the community and ask what they needed.”

“They asked, what’s missing here? I think there is a bank branch going up the corner opposite of the Publix. A bank that community has never had. You see improved housing in that area. You also see some blight, but you see services the community really needs that many of us take for granted.”

“I, personally, know my family, where we live, if I go three to five miles in any direction, I will hit a Kroger, a Publix, a Target, a Walmart. The basic things that have become building blocks for family operations these days. And in some communities that is not true.”

“You see in some cases the community engagement and involvement get down to bringing basic services that haven’t been present. One of the things we talk about on the “S” part of ESG is Social. The idea of decent housing and food chains. You’ve heard the term “food desert”?” Mitchell asked.

Growing the Village

“There are some communities and neighborhoods that don’t have any grocery stores, maybe have a glorified convenience mart that the freshest vegetable you will find is a 6-month-old potato chip.”

“When you talk about equality and community building, and urban development and regional development, the idea of health comes in to play. Is there a trail, is there a park?” Asked Mitchell.

“Can you get to reasonably healthy foods? When you talk about the “S” and the social and the equality piece, sort of wealth building and basic financial framework.” Discussed Mitchell

“Is there even a banking institution available, you can get to, in a reasonably short order or do you have to drive 20-30 minutes to get to one? A lot of people experience a 30-minute drive to anything, so a lot of real estate development now revolves around not just our world where you and I have built our careers in the office world.”

Adjacent Areas

“There is the idea of the adjacency. In order for an office to work well, you need some retail in there. You probably need a variety of housing types.”

“You probably need a hotel. And guess what? All the economic data that is out there, when institutions like Georgia Power’s economic development branch, the metro chamber of commerce of Atlanta, other Chambers of Commerce including the state of Georgia, every municipality and county has one of its own.”

“One of the things they hear consistently from the companies we try to recruit, to come to the state of Georgia, to come to the metro area, they want to know about your diversity of housing.”

“Do you have different housing types, how are you, as a region, working to solve the affordable housing crisis, because the employees, that they anticipate, the talent they know they’ll hire to make their business work, need to live somewhere and if it’s too hard to find a place where you are, maybe they are not coming here. Maybe our city’s other advantages don’t pull them in. All of those things go in to the thinking.”

“And then there is the scale, a super grand scale, like the opportunity zone concept. A concept that allows investors to come together into a fund, pool their money, achieve some tax benefits but those funds and whatever happens development wise with that money can only happen in only areas that have been designated opportunity zones.” Mitchell discussed.

Opportunity Zones

“For example, in metro Atlanta, Buckhead does not qualify as an opportunity zone, neither does Dunwoody. Nor Sandy Springs or communities that are well established and have plenty of investment already. It is places that historically haven’t gotten it and they look like what they look like as a result.”

“One opportunity zone project that I am aware of is EchoStreet West. Lincoln Property Group is the general partner and the developer. It is a ten-year project.”

“It will involve every segment of real estate you can think of, retail, office, hotel, and multi-family. It is in the neighborhood, formerly known as Bankhead. So not far from Mercedes Benz Stadium. A fairly large investment. I am particularly dialed in to it because Bridge Investment Group has an operating Entity that only does Opportunity Zone Work.” Explained Mitchell.

“We are the money behind this project. And I know LPG has gone great lengths to engage the community including partnering with existing non-profit organizations in that area to support technology needs for after school programs for k-12 students, to support job skills and training programs for residents in that area who might not otherwise gotten that sort of attention. And many more programs designed to help local residents who have flat out been left behind by society.

“The goal here is to get on some kind of a track to build a sense of wealth, to build a sense of purpose and to move their families forward under their own vision and power, whatever that looks like. To built the tools to actually do it.”

“This has been a change. Large scale investments like EchoStreet West and the way the capital markets and the broader investment community view concepts like ESG and DEI these days demands that, that kind of project, to have that kind of impact.” Mitchell added.

Understanding the Community

“I am mindful of a former colleague of mine, in East Palo Alto California. When you hear Palo Alto and you think venture capital. The venture capital center of the universe. You are talking trillions of dollars in that area. So you think, what could they need?” Mitchell asked.

“Well, the neighboring community in East Palo Alto could use a whole lot. So, the PM and her team partnered and said we are going to put on massive back to school drives for school supplies and we are going to tie in rising high school juniors’ exposure to colleges and universities including road trips where they get to tour and see things.”

“But that was just one team coming together around that vision around that community need and doing it. But I think really, where the rubber meets the road is the team’s willingness to get out in the community and not be stand offish and stay inside the fence line, so to speak.”

“Get out and understand what is going on around you and you can figure out something. But it starts with understanding what is going on around you, being a good neighbor.”

“Here locally, in Atlanta, Florence Barbour who is one of our Regional Property Managers, also happens to manage the Lenox Park Owners Association.”

“Lenox Park is this large development that has 6 office buildings, four we own, a hotel, a senior living facility, four multi-family apartment developments, a handful of single-family home subdivisions, a town house community.”

“One of the apartment developments burned down recently and Florence quickly spear-headed an effort to help generate some funding support for the residents.”

“On the one hand you can’t miss a whole apartment development burning down but on the other hand you have to want to do something. And she did. We all have our day job. But this was above and beyond. And so being aware of what is going on in your community and being thoughtful about what needs might be there.”

Problem Solvers

“It might not always be that dramatic. It may be a local elementary school that does some fun fall fest, being a part of that, bring a case of water, work a booth, whatever, have conversations with the local school administration and figure it out.” Mitchell explained.

“There is so much need out there and so much opportunity to build relationships in the community where we earn a living. You just have to be open to figuring out what makes sense.”

“Property management teams are exceptional problem solvers. We have leaders that who will lend their thoughts, strengths and ideas and resources to it. And then you just go do it. And that is something we are good at.”

“I have seen countless engagements, but the backside of it is you not only have to be willing, you not only have to execute, but I think you have got to find good ways of marketing what you have accomplished to help push back on NIMBYism.” Explained Mitchell.

“Obviously you can be an established development that has been there forever, versus a ground up construction development, so the NIMBYism is going to be different based upon which buckets you fit.”

“Either way, the better prepared we are to talk about things we’ve accomplished at other sites, where we have engaged the community if not that location or things we intend to accomplish or what we are open to accomplishing and the conversations we are open to having. I think we can be better at placing emphasis on that.”

The Benefit of CRE

“I will go back to the earlier reference to our contributions to the tax digest. Taxes in general have such a negative connotation, I don’t think we take time to think there is actually a reason for taxes, it is called services. That all of us benefit from and prefer to have.”

“And, certainly, if the fire truck or the police 911 call or the EMT doesn’t get to you, as you would otherwise prefer, there is some barking. The other side of that is the services are there because we are here and we are doing our jobs and we are doing a good job at it.”

“I think we just got to be more intentional about taking credit for things we are having a positive impact on. The point is, a lot of things are already happening and we don’t think of them in the context of serving the community or community engagement and other instances. We just want to do the work and not be credited for it and so there is a way to approach it.” Mitchell discussed.

“A tasteful way to approach the marketing so it is not just “man I am great and wonderful, just ask me”. And we could probably work a little harder at that and talk more about things we are doing and already have done.”

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“Even if it doesn’t tie directly to a particular community or property, I think it shows that we have got the willingness to come in and have a similar impact to that community and we are already doing it in some instances and nobody knows or if they do know, they found out by accident and not by us making sure they knew.”

The growing importance of ESG in CRE has shown that positive community impact must be a major driver as commercial real estate grows. A tall tree cannot exist without roots, and CRE developers must continue to consider how and where those roots can be developed to positively impact and grow the communities they reside in.

Addressing food deserts, developing infrastructure, bringing in banks so that small businesses can develop, these are some of the keys to positively impacting the communities we are part of.

It takes a village to support a commercial building, and helping that village grow will show enormous dividends, both in our industry and beyond. Ask yourself, what does your neighborhood, your village, your city, need to thrive?

Dusty Muck is an Account Manager for Rubbermaid Commercial Products, providing waste/recycling, cleaning, material handling, and washroom solutions to business in Georgia. In addition to his work with Insight, he works as an ambassador for new BOMA Members and serves on the BOMA Georgia Foundation Board, and the BOMA Government Affairs Committee, assisting strategies on legislative and regulatory matters affecting the commercial real estate industry in Georgia.

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2023 Legislation: A New Cycle Starts

By: Katie Roberts, Fiveash-Stanley

After an electric election season, the focus now shifts to the 2023 legislative session. All 236 members of the House and Senate stood for reelection and a quarter of those seats are now occupied by freshmen legislators.

Educating and developing relationships with these new lawmakers is an important undertaking for BOMA Georgia and the commercial real estate industry.

The new term for November’s victors begins January 9, coinciding with the start of the 2023 legislative session. The first days will be largely ceremonial, with the certification of election results and swearing-in ceremonies for House and Senate members, as well as the Governor, Lt. Governor, and other constitutional officers.

The pomp and circumstance don’t last long though; both new and returning legislators will rapidly begin drafting, circulating, and filing legislation.

New Session, New Cycle

In the 2019-2020 session, lawmakers filed 1,453 bills. While less than twenty percent made it to the Governor’s desk, each measure must be individually screened and monitored for potential impact on the industry. BOMA tracked more than 130 individual measures in that period and about thirty percent were signed into law.

Legislation of interest to BOMA Georgia is generally categorized as relating to:

• Property management

• Property taxation and valuation

• Code enforcement, land use, and development

• Transportation, sustainability, and economic development

• Tort reform and premise liability

• General business

Within the membership of the BOMA Government Affairs Committee, individual working groups are established to advise on bills in these specific areas.

2023 will be the first in a two-year legislative cycle, which means no legislation from last year’s session carries over. All legislation to be considered this year must be reintroduced. Even bills that feel familiar are often fine-tuned from year to year and many times the lead sponsor changes.

Legislative standing committees will also be updated with new leadership and new members; this creates another opportunity for engagement with lawmakers who may not already be familiar with the industry and its posture on specific proposals.

While there are certain to be a variety of unforeseen issues that the Association will react to during the 2023 session, here are a few areas we already expect to engage in:

Premise Liability Legislation

In 2021 and 2022, the Association supported legislation to correct an issue related to the apportionment of damages (HB 961). That effort was largely viewed as moving the business community back to the starting line but did not make new progress related to legal reform.

The business community may face a similar situation in 2023 following a March 2022 Georgia Supreme Court ruling (Junior V. Graham) that held a party could potentially recover the same attorney fees twice under two unrelated Georgia statutes. Naturally, this increases exposure for defendants who could be liable for duplicative awards for fees and expenses.

A major goal of proactive legal reform for property owners centers around premise liability reform. A group of Senators met in 2019 to review Georgia’s legal climate and its impact on the cost of doing business.

Among other broad legal reforms, the committee recommended legislation be introduced to set a reasonable standard of liability when an unrelated third party commits an act against a person on the landowner’s property. They advised that the standard should require some overt act on the part of the landowner that directly causes the harm.

While meaningful premise liability reform continues to be a long-term priority, small “fix-it” bills like apportionment and double attorney fees often absorb the attention of the legislature and prevent more meaningful negotiations between the business community and the trial bar.

Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

Over the summer and fall, members of the House and Senate, along with representatives from the Department of Transportation, Department of Economic Development, and Public Service Commission have convened for meetings of the Electric Vehicle Charging Study Committee.

The study committee was born out of stalled legislation that sought to allow electric vehicle charging companies to bill customers by the kilowatt-hour without being regulated as a utility by the PSC.

Embedded within this debate is also a conversation about amending the annual fee the state imposes on electric vehicles ($200 for noncommercial, $300 for commercial).

Longtime BOMA members will recall that in 2015, the General Assembly ended a generous tax credit for electric vehicles purchases and imposed this annual fee. The combination of these two actions greatly reduced the use of electric and other low-emission vehicles across Georgia.

Electric vehicles advocates have suggested the state consider alternatives to the annual fee, including a vehicle-miles-traveled tax or a tax collected at the time of charging, similar to the existing motor fuels tax. The study committee will release findings and any recommendations before the start of the 2023 session.

C-PACER Program

Commercial Property Assessed Capital Expenditures, or C-PACE, is a public-private partnership that is intended to enable commercial building owners to invest in their property.

Under these programs, a private lender finances energy-saving building upgrades. The property owner uses generated savings to repay the lender via a special assessment added to their property tax bill.

Because of the tax bill component, state law and municipal ordinance must explicitly allow for C-PACE projects. Georgia currently has a very limited C-PACE program on the books but evidently, very few C-PACE projects have been completed.

An assemblage of private lenders has indicated they intend to pursue legislation that would make C-PACE more available and attractive statewide. BOMA Georgia has been involved in preliminary conversations and will continue to monitor forthcoming C-PACE legislation.

Housing Affordability

While BOMA members are not housing providers, issues surrounding urban homelessness, zoning, and construction costs are industry concerns. Two separate study committees have been considering those issues this year. Members of the Senate have been discussing the issue of homelessness.

According to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, nearly 4,000 Georgians are currently unsheltered. At previous Government Affairs Committee meetings, BOMA members have indicated an uptick in unsheltered groups, particularly within the central business districts of Atlanta.

Naturally, the supply and affordability of housing are major factors when discussing homelessness. The House Study Committee on Regulation, Affordability and Access to Housing has been looking at these exact issues.

The Georgia Public Policy Foundation, a local non-partisan think tank, testified during a recent hearing that Georgia suffers from a higher-than-average regulatory cost associated with building.

This includes zoning approvals, architectural design standards, and building codes. Others testified that many building codes imposed by local governments are not tied to health, safety, and welfare, but are instead intended to enforce a certain—often more expensive— design aesthetic.

For example, a county along the Georgia coast recently imposed new residential design standards that include a prohibition on vinyl siding and slab foundations.

Recognizing BOMA Georgia doesn’t have a specific interest in housing policies, your Government Affairs Team will continue to monitor these and other issues related to code enforcement, land use, and development.

Regular sessions of the Georgia General Assembly last forty working days, typically stretching into early spring. During those three months, legislators will adopt two balanced budgets for the state that spend more than $30 million in taxpayer funds on public schools, healthcare, public safety, and transportation. Lawmakers will introduce, perfect, debate, and vote on more than 3,000 bills and resolutions.

Your government affairs team will be on the ground every day, helping educate policymakers about the commercial real estate industry. To stay up to date and get more involved in BOMA Georgia’s advocacy efforts, contact the Association today!

Roberts serves as Director of Government Affairs at Fiveash-Stanley, Inc. In this role, she is critical in managing legislative and regulatory issues specific to the industry. Fiveash-Stanley is recognized as one of Georgia’s leading government and public affairs consulting firms and has represented BOMA Georgia since 2000.

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Gold Dome Dispatch: A Look Back at 2022

Throughout 2022, BOMA Georgia’s Gold Dome Dispatch was your regular update on the Georgia General Assembly. BOMA Georgia actively represents the interests of the commercial real estate industry in legislative and regulatory affairs. The Association has produced this update to ensure you and the organization and assets you serve are aware of any issues that may impact you going into 2023.

Background

The 2022 Georgia Legislative Session began on January 10 and ended shortly after midnight on April 4. After two years of the session being greatly impacted by COVID, the biggest disruption of 2022 came early in the year. After a brief and ceremonial first day, the House and Senate suspended for several days to allow members to travel to the College Football Championship game featuring the victorious Georgia Bulldogs. The balance of the session proceeded in a typical fashion.

Governor Brian Kemp had forty days following the conclusion of the session to review legislation sent to him by the General Assembly. The Governor could sign, veto, or take no action on a bill. If he took no action, the bill automatically became a law at the close of the forty-day window.

As the second year in a two-year legislative cycle, all measures that failed to make it to the Governor’s desk are officially lost. Proponents must reintroduce legislation in a future session for reconsideration and the bills begin the process anew.

Tort Reform and Legal Reform

Apportionment of Damages

961) Rep.ChuckEfstration,R-Dacula Sen.JohnKennedy,R-Macon Act 876, signed into law May 13

Effective May 13, 2022

In August 2021, the Georgia Supreme Court issued an opinion in Alston & Byrd v. Hatcher Management Holdings that upended Georgia’s longstanding apportionment statute.

In this case, the Hatcher family sued Alston & Bird for legal malpractice after one of the family members, Maury Hatcher, embezzled substantial amounts of funds out of the family’s holding company. The jury awarded the family over $2.1 million in damages.

The jury apportioned 32-percent of the fault to Alston & Bird, 60-percent to Maury, and the remaining to Hatcher Management Holdings. Under Georgia’s longstanding apportion system, this meant that Alston & Bird was only responsible for approximately $675,000 (32%) of the total $2.1 million award.

However, the Court of Appeals ruled and the Georgia Supreme Court affirmed that Alston & Bird was also responsible for paying Maury’s 60-percent share because the family didn’t sue Maury specifically.

Therefore, Alston & Bird paid 92-percent of the damages even though it was only apportioned 32-percent of the fault. The implications of this type of standard are far-reaching and greatly increase exposure and liability for “deep pocket” defendants even if others are also responsible for damages.

HB 961 clarifies the intention of the statute by allowing apportionment of damages in single-defendant lawsuits. The law is applicable to all cases filed after the signature of the Governor.

View the full text of House Bill 961 at this QR code.

Property Management

Constitutional Carry (SB 319)

Sen.JasonAnavitarte,R-Dallas Rep.MandiBallinger,R-Canton

Act 740, signed into law May 2 Effective July 1, 2022

SB 319 implements “constitutional carry” whereby lawful weapons carriers are permitted to carry without a permit. It includes language from HB 1358 to allow for the possession of handguns in parks, historic sites, and recreational areas.

Places of worship remain an unauthorized carry location unless its governing body or authority permits weapons carry by lawful weapons carriers.

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Property Taxation and Valuation

Temporary Property Tax Relief in Disaster Areas

(HR 594)

Rep.LynnSmith,R-Newnan

Sen.MattBrass,R-Newnan

Act 803, signed into law May 2

Effective May 2, 2022

In March 2021, a devastating tornado struck Newnan and Coweta County. According to the author, local tax officials had no flexibility under state law to grant temporary tax relief to properties that were severely damaged or destroyed. Property owners were responsible for paying taxes on the property as it was valued on January 1 despite subsequent damage or destruction.

HR 594 proposes an amendment to the Georgia Constitution that would allow the governing authority of counties, municipalities, consolidated governments, and the board of education of each independent and county school system to grant temporary tax relief to properties damaged or destroyed as the result of a disaster and located within a nationally declared disaster area. State law requires all proposed constitutional amendments to appear on the November General Election ballot.

The legislation was modeled on the existing arrangement for the Georgia Real Estate Commission. According to ACEC, this will provide the financial and operational independence for the PELS Board to properly serve the 23,000 Professional Engineers and 1,200 Land Surveyors whose licenses are critical to the health, safety, and welfare of Georgia citizens.

View the full text of House Bill 476 at this QR code.

View the full text of House Resolution 594 at this QR code.

Code Enforcement, Land Use and Development

Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors Act

(HB 476)

Rep.DaleWashburn,R-Macon

Sen.JohnAlbers,R-Roswell

Act 835, signed into law May 9

Effective May 9, 2022

HB 476 was introduced at the request of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of Georgia with the support of the Surveying and Mapping Society of Georgia. It establishes the Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors Board as an independent state agency, with its own separate budget, executive director, staff, attorney, and investigators.

Annexation Dispute Resolution (HB 1461)

Rep.VictorAnderson,R-Cornelia

Sen.BoHatchett,R-Cornelia

Act 785, signed into law May 2

Effective July 1, 2022

In 2021, Rep. Victor Anderson chaired the House Study Committee on Annexation. The Committee’s final report recommended that school systems and other jurisdictions impacted by an annexation be granted standing in the dispute process. It also suggested that arbitration panels should be empowered to attach zoning, density, and land use conditions to the property for at least three years. A complete copy of the Study Committee’s final report is available here.

HB 1461 represents the implementation of those recommendations. The original version did give impacted school systems standing in the dispute resolution process, but that language was removed in subsequent versions.

As enacted by the Governor, it requires a municipal corporation to provide notice of a petition of annexation to impacted school systems but does not give the system standing. It also provides proposed annexation objection and arbitration guidelines and procedures for impacted school systems and county governing authorities.

In the final days of the session, language from SB 354 was also added to HB 1461. This provision relates specifically to annexation by application. Generally, property owners can petition the local government and request that unincorporated and contiguous territory be annexed and the county boundary extended.

This language relates to the “60 percent method” for annexation, whereby municipal corporations of a least 200 persons can annex a contiguous area, defined as at least one-eighth of the property’s aggregate external boundary must next to or have a common boundary with the municipal boundary.

Under this method, 60 percent of the electors residing in the area and at least 60 percent of the owners of the land area by acreage may apply for annexation.

View the full text of House Bill 1461 at this QR code.

Transportation, Green and Economic Development

Electric Vehicle Charging Study Committees (SR 463)

Sen.SteveGooch,R-Dahlonega

Rep.RickJasperse,R-Jasper

Authorized by the Senate and House

Earlier this year, Reps. Mike Cheokas and Alan Powell introduced separate measures (HB 1133 and HB 1322, respectively) to allow electric vehicle charging companies to bill customers by the kilowatt-hour without being regulated as a utility by the Public Service Commission.

In testimony, Powell argued that utility companies like Georgia Power and the EMCs should not have a monopoly on vehicle charging, nor should they be allowed to recover the costs of deploying, owning, or operating EV charging equipment from ratepayers.

Because of the nuanced and contentious nature of the debate, neither bill will move forward this year. Instead, proponents have created a study committee via SR 463.

Study committees allow lawmakers to do a deep dive on the issue absent the constraints of the forty-day session. They would develop recommendations that could be incorporated into legislation in the 2023 session.

Study Committee members will include:

• Four members of the Senate, including the chair of the Senate Transportation Committee and chair of the Senate Regulated Industries Committee.

• Four members of the House, including the chair of the House Committee on Transportation and chair of the House Energy, Utilities, and Telecommunication Committee.

• The Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Transportation.

• The Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Economic Development.

• The Chairperson of the Georgia Public Service Commission.

The committee is authorized to meet for up to five days. In the event it adopts specific findings or recommendations that include suggestions for proposed legislation, the chairs must file a final report before December 1, 2022.

Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan appointed the following Senators to the committee:

• Steve Gooch, Co-chair | Senator, R-Dahlonega

• Frank Ginn | Senator, R-Danielsville

• Larry Walker | Senator, R-Perry

• David Lucas, Ex-officio | Senator, D-Macon

• Randy Robertson, Ex-officio | Senator, R-Cataula

Speaker of the House David Ralston appointed the following senators to the committee:

• Rick Jasperse, Co-chair | Representative, R-Jasper

• Don Parsons | Representative, R-Marietta

• John Corbett | Representative, R-Lake Park

• Alan Powell | Representative, R-Hartwell

View the study committee‘s sessions at this QR Code.

Municipal Incorporations

Several currently unincorporated areas of Cobb County were the focus of cityhood efforts this year. While lawsuits were active regarding the proposed cities of Lost Mountain, Vinings, and East Cobb, these measures appeared on the May 24 Primary Ballot in impacted areas.

In general, cityhood advocates say they need greater local control to prevent high-density housing, crime, and overcrowded schools. The proposed cities only intended to provide planning and zoning, sanitation, code enforcement, and parks and recreation services.

Other services, including emergency services and schools, would still be provided by the county. Opponents claim the city charters proposed for Lost Mountain, Vinings, and East Cobb violate the constitution and requested emergency injunctive relief to prevent the May 24 referendum.

Proposed cityhood efforts include:

• City of Lost Mountain, via HB 826

• City of Vinings, via HB 840

• City of East Cobb, via HB 841

Voters in these areas rejected cityhood efforts during the May 24 Primary Election.

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A fourth Cobb-based cityhood movement – Mableton, via HB 839 –will appear on November’s General Election ballot.

HB 839 received nearly unanimous support in the General Assembly, whereas the other cityhood resolutions were passed along party lines. Cityhood advocates in the south Cobb area are confident they will be successful where other cities failed.

General Business

Tax Reduction and Reform Act of 2022 (HB

1437)

Act 716, signed into law April 26

Effective date varies

HB 1437 eliminates personal income tax brackets and replaces them with a tax rate of 5.49%. The bill allows for future annual reductions of one-tenth of 1% until reaching 4.99% when:

• The governor’s revenue estimate for the succeeding fiscal year is greater than 3% above the revenue estimate for the current fiscal year,

• The prior fiscal year’s net revenue collection was higher than each of the preceding five fiscal years’ net tax revenue collections, and

• The Revenue Shortfall Reserve contains a sum that exceeds the amount of the decrease in state funds projected to occur as a result of the reduction in the tax rate set to occur in the following year.

• HB 1437 eliminates the standard deductions of $5,400 for single and head of household taxpayers and $7,100 for married taxpayers filing a joint return, as well as the additional deductions of $1,300 for taxpayers over the age of 65 or blind. The bill increases the personal exemptions as follows:

• Single and head of household taxpayers: from $2,700 to $12,000

• Married taxpayers filing a joint return: from $7,400 to $18,500

The personal exemption for married taxpayers filing a joint return increased to $20,000 for 2026, $22,000 for 2028, and $24,000 for 2030. The bill also increases the amount of earned income allowed to be included in the retirement income exemption from $4,000 to $5,000 and caps the amount of state and local taxes allowed to be deducted at $10,000.

At the insistence of the Senate, the bill also contains language that requires the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Committee on Finance to undertake a thorough joint review of all state tax credits, deductions, and exemptions by May 1, 2023. No later than December 1, 2023, the committees must submit a report of their findings and recommendations to the presiding officers of the chambers.

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View the full text of House Bill 1437 at this QR code.

Lost Legislation: Property Management

Crime and Safety Notices to Tenants (HB 965)

Rep. Mesha Mainor, D-Atlanta

Last year, the author introduced HB 138. It would have required landlords to provide crime notices to existing and prospective tenants; failure to comply would be deemed a violation of the state fair housing laws. In response to concerns voiced by the multifamily industry and others, the responsibility for compiling crime information was placed on local law enforcement. The bill was adopted by the House but failed to advance in the Senate.

This year, Rep. Mainor filed HB 965. The goal of the measure is similar: it requires landlords with more than residential 50 units to provide tenants and prospective tenants a summary every six months of certain crimes that occurred on or in the property, including murder, assault, battery, rape, gang-related crimes, burglary, theft, or felony drug crimes. Unlike previous efforts, failure to comply is deemed a violation of the Fair Business Practice Act, not Fair Housing.

Elevator Inspections (HB 994)

Rep. Matthew Wilson, D-Brookhaven

HB 994 increases the civil penalty for failure to inspect elevators from $500 to $2,500 per elevator, dumbwaiter, escalator, manlift, or moving walk not inspected. Fine increase again, up to $5,000 per unit, if inspections are further delayed. The bill was given a hearing in a House Regulated Industries Subcommittee; the author referenced the backlog of elevator inspections at the Department of Insurance.

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Industrial Snapshot, Q3

The industrial real estate market continues to grow and expand. There are currently over 630 million square feet of industrial space under construction in the US, with Savannah, Austin, and Indianapolis seeing the largest figures relative to their size. The industrial sector saw an absorption of 123 million square feet, bringing the YTD total to 356.9 million square feet.

Low Vacancy and New Construction

One of the major challenges facing the US industrial sector is uncertainty surrounding future demand. The vacancy rate for industrial space reached an all-time low of 3.3-percent in Q3.

This follows nearly two years of declining vacancy. 2022 is expected to see over 400 million square feet of industrial space absorbed by the end of Q4.

While vacancy in industrial was low overall, economic uncertainty, supply chain concerns, and inflation have had negative effects on new construction preleasing. Preleasing for construction has fallen 11.2-percent year-over-year.

Construction remained strong overall, with 138.2 million square feet of new industrial properties going online, up 27-percent from Q2. Over 627 million square-feet of industrial property is under construction.

Savannah, Austin, and Indianapolis saw the largest underconstruction product relative to their market size. Nearly a third of this 138.2 million square feet of new construction came from Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Indianapolis, and Eastern and Central Pennsylvania.

Industrial Leasing

Q3 saw increased development throughout the country, and the construction materials industry saw growth in industrial leasing, showing 7.9-percent of leasing activity.

Approximately 134.3 million square-feet of deals were signed in Q3, and the average size of these leases increased from 86,000 squarefeet in Q1 to 95,000 square-feet in Q3 2022.

Logistics and Distribution continued to be the biggest player in activity by percent of total leased square-feet, accounting for 15-percent of industrial activity. Third-Party Logistics (3PL) was second at 13.1-percent, with Construction Materials and Building Fixtures in third at 7.9-percent. This growth was helped by increased development in commercial and residential properties.

Of industrial leasing, five markets accounted for over 40-percent of industrial leasing, Atlanta, Chicago, Eastern and Central Pennsylvania, Inland Empire, and Los Angeles.

These markets benefited from their proximities to seaports and strong rail infrastructure, as well as the growth seen in the e-Commerce, 3PL, and Logistics and Distribution industries.

Atlanta Market

Atlanta attained record setting quarterly delivers at just under 9 million square feet completed in Q3. Average rental rates also continued to grow, seeing an increase of 26-percent this quarter alone, the highest growth in Atlanta’s history. The previous record was set in Q2 of 2022.

Additionally, Atlanta landlords have shown to be more flexible than in the past, demonstrating a larger willingness to prelease and engage in long-term deals, as well as lower TI allowances. 38 million square feet of deals have been signed this year, and preleasing activity saw continued growth. 6.5 millions square feet of space was leased at delivery.

New construction slowed to 5.6 million square feet, roughly half the volume new construction saw in Q1 and Q2. This is likely from continued supply chain issues, especially with concrete, which has seen low production and high demand.

By the numbers, Atlanta has seen a YTD net absorption of 17.5 million square feet (the sixth highest nationally), 45.4 million square feet of space under construction (the second highest nationally), YTD completions of 21.5 million square feet (fourth highest), and a 4-percent vacancy rate. Asking rent for industrial space was $5.55 per square foot on average, with 640.2 million square feet of inventory.

Industrial Real Estate

By the end of 2022, it is estimated that over 400 million square feet of industrial space will have been absorbed in the US, the secondstrongest year of absorption.

Markets near ports or adjacent to them, as well as those with strong rail infrastructure, could see an increase in short term leases to accommodate holiday related e-commerce, as well as e-commerce related to the new year.

The increase in electric vehicle infrastructure and manufacturing, especially as large international manufacturers have started growing their investments in the area, could further increase industrial investments.

The vacancy rate is expected to increase as new industrial construction is brought online; especially as preleasing rates remain lower. Q3 saw record setting groundbreaking, with total under construction industrial product rising to an astounding 633.8 million square feet.

The industrial sector continues to grow and expand with the proliferation of e-commerce and logistics companies, even in the faces of economic uncertainty. Atlanta, Chicago, Eastern and Central Pennsylvania, Inland Empire, and Los Angeles continue to lead the charge into Q4 and the new year.

Figures in the article are based on the Industrial Outlook report from JLL, scan below to read more.

L-Prize Update: Prototype Phase Open

The second stage of the United States Department of Energy’s Lighting Prize (or L-Prize) competition opened on Jun. 30, 2022. The intent to submit deadline is Jan. 13, 2023, with the final submission deadline being May 1 at 5PM. Winners of the protype phase will be announced in July of 2023, and up to six winners will receive awards from a $2,000,000 prize pool.

The prototype phase (and phase three) of the L-Prize will feature two tracks, luminaire and connected systems. Competitors may submit to one track or the other, or separately to both.

Winners will be selected based on efficacy, quality of light, connectivity, and product life cycle. In all cycles, extra points will be awarded to entrants based on performance exceeding contest requirements by the contest’s Expert Reviewer Panel.

The L-Prize

The L-Prize is a contest held by the US DOE to encourage innovation in the lighting industry. The previous L-Prize competition held in 2011 was won by Philips 940 lumen, 10-watt LED bulb. The DOE began a new L-Prize competition in 2021 with three main phases.

• Phase 1: Concept – The first phase of the 2021 L-Prize competition rewards concept systems that meet energy efficiency, lighting quality, connectivity, and product life cycle requirements that exceed currently available commercial products. Four groups won $20,000 for their designs.

• Phase 2: Prototypes – The second phase of the L-Prize competition seeks technological innovations through product prototypes. Entrants are encouraged to think outside the box and look at novel forms and materials in their designs. Phase 2 has a $2,000,000 prize pool for up to 3 winners. Phase 2 opened Jun. 30, 2022.

• Phase 3: Manufacturing & Installation – The third and final phase of the L-Prize competition rewards entrants based on U.S. manufacturing, installations, and additional life cycle and operation considerations. Phase 3 will award up to two entrants from a $10,000,000 prize pool.

Luminaire Track

The requirements of the Luminaire (a complete electric light unit or fixture) track requirements are broken into efficacy, quality of light, connectivity, life cycle, technical innovation, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

The Luminaire track first looks at the efficacy of the light unit, and awards extra points based on the luminaire exceeding efficacy requirements (all requirements can be found in the full L-Prize Rules).

The quality of light requirements are chromaticity (color quality), dimming range, glare control, spectral power data, color rendition (extra points available), flicker (extra points available), and the how white-tunable the luminaire is (option/points only).

Connectivity requires standards-based digital drivers (software integration), and standards-based sensor port and connectors (sensor integration).

The requirements for product life cycles involve driver lifetime, chromaticity maintenance, lumen maintenance (extra points available), circular design (points available), and the optional category materials and sustainability innovation (extra points only).

Technical innovations are optional and only award extra points in application efficiency, form factor and aesthetics, and value proposition and cost. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion considerations only award extra points as well, and are based on DEI plans and protocols, DEI gaps and opportunities, and DEI deployment and application.

Connected System Track

The requirements of the Connected System track requirements are broken into connectivity, life cycle, technical innovation, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

Requirements in the connectivity section are standards-based luminaire or system controllers, interoperability, addressability, energy reporting, lighting control strategies, system resilience (with extra points available), fault detection and diagnostics (extra points available), and grid services capable (extra points available).

Product life cycle requirements give extra points based on the life cycle and sustainability innovations of the connected lighting system.

The technical innovation requirements of this track award extra points based on technical innovation, ease of installation and use, compatibility and interoperability and, value proposition and cost. Extra points can also be earned through Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion considerations, specifically around DEI plans and protocols, addressing gaps and opportunities, and deployment and application.

Learn more about the L-Prize at the L-Prize homepage (right), or by reading the full technical requirements and rules (left).

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Companydonorswhohavegiven$500-$999

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Capital City Mechanical Services CapRidge Partners

CBRE

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EPIC

Everclear Enterprises Georgia Paving Gray Contracting Highwoods Properties Lillibridge Healthcare Services Madison Marquette

Bachelor

Mayberry Electric, Inc. OA Management

P3 Painting & Renovations

Parker Young Construction, A RESCON Company

Physicians Realty Trust

PM&A

Pope & Land Enterprises

Portman Management Pritchard Industries Prologis Remediation Group

Roof Partners

Rubbermaid Commercial Products Russell Landscape

SERVPRO of North Lilburn Sesmas Tree Service LLC

SOLID

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Air Filtration Manufacturer

FilterPro USA LLC (256) 767-4158

Airduct Cleaning

Ductz Of Greater Atlanta (770) 631-2424

Appraisal Consulting

Fellers, Schewe, Scott & Roberts, Inc. ....................... (770) 621-9548

Asphalt Construction

Miller Brothers Paving (770) 491-3090

Attorneys

Andre Kill & McCarthy LLP .... (404) 653-3005

Audio Visual Services

Vertical AVTV (404) 352-2488

Bldg Mgt Consultants

HqO (404) 403-1850

Wtec Inc. (470) 628-7270

Bldg Services

Century Fire Protection LLC (678) 775-4870

CBM Atlanta Inc. ................... (770) 988-9001

Eastern Glass & Aluminum (404) 904-6537

Engineered Restorations Inc. (770) 682-0650

IA INTERIOR ARCHITECTS (404) 504-0297

Painters on Demand (404) 603-6550

WiseGuys Pro-Wash (404) 596-5559

Building Automation Controls

Dormkaba USA, Inc. (404) 210 0717

ENTEK (678) 910-1326

Hoffman Building Technologies ....................... (470) 387-1619

Honeywell Building Technologies ....................... (470) 501-9472

Siemens Industry Inc. (678) 230-0625

Carpet/Floor

Atlanta Flooring Design Centers Inc. (770) 476-8306

Mad Matter GA (678) 361-6704

ServiceMaster Cleaning & Restoration (770) 514-1789

SOLID Surface Care, Inc. (678) 354-6726 X 221

Catering/Food Svcs

Ben & Jerry’s ........................ (404) 666-2232

Cleaning Equipment/Supplies

Spartan Chemical Company (843) 789-9821

Commercial Moving

Flood Brothers Commercial Moving and Storage (404) 799-3744

Communications

Kings III Emergency Communications (678) 438-1965

Computer Recycling

Ecycle Atlanta (678) 324-9760

Construction Products

Precision Concrete Construction (770) 751-3887

The Home Depot Pro ............ (678) 817-8325

Yancey Power Systems (518) 651-6353

Contractors

Centennial Contractors Enterprises Inc. (770) 613-2999

Crawford Contractor Connection (470) 970-7467

Double T Contracting, Inc. (770) 617-0167

Eastern Glass & Aluminum (404) 904-6537

Gray Contracting ................... (678) 530-9700

Innovative Engineering Inc. (678) 883-5868 Nova Commercial Interiors Inc. (770) 592-0260

PKS Paving & Concrete Construction ......... (404) 401-8551 Rand Construction Company ............................ (770) 777-4177 SterlingView Renovations (678) 612-0831

Western Specialty Contractors of America (678) 553-0170

Electrical

Allison-Smith Company (404) 351-6430 Conger Electrical Services (678) 690-0038 Eckardt Group (678) 249-4954 Martin Technical, Inc. ............. (770) 590-7449 Mayberry Electric, Inc. (404) 991-7007 Prime Power Services Inc. ..... (678) 898-4960

Titan Electric Georgia LLC (470) 275-9404

Elevators/Escalators

Elevations South ................... (404) 375-0390

Fujitec America Inc. (770) 209-0322 Otis Elevator Company .......... (980) 808-7026 Phoenix Elevator of Georgia .............................. (678) 574-2447 TK Elevator (770) 820-6579

Employment Specialist

BG Talent ............................. (470) 724-0185

Core Executive Recruiting (352) 317-7026

Energy

Baker Engineering LLC ......... (404) 307-3237

Mallory & Evans Service (478) 747-0551

McKenney’s Inc. ................... (404) 635-4710

Tecta America (404) 392-1367

Trane (678) 775-4302

Yancey Power Systems (518) 651-6353

Engineering

Criterium-Raby Engineers ...... (770) 740-9720

Harbin’s Mechanical Services, Inc. (770) 914-7060

Honeywell Building

Technologies ....................... (470) 501-9472

IES Mach (404) 759-5391

Innovative Engineering Inc. (678) 883-5868

Martin Technical, Inc. (770) 590-7449

Mayberry Electric, Inc. (404) 991-7007

NOVA Engineering & Environmental (770) 570-9171

PENTA Engineering Group Inc. (678) 282-1999

PM&A (770) 480-7452

S&ME, Inc. (770) 919-0969

Sustainable Investment Group LLC (SIG) ................. (404) 310-9971

Environmental

Aquascape Environmental (678) 445-0077

IES Mach (404) 759-5391

S&ME, Inc. (770) 919-0969

Sustainable Investment Group LLC (SIG) (404) 310-9971

The Morley Companies .......... (770) 569-1100

Equipment Rentals

Stone Mountain Access Systems .................. (770) 908-2936 Sunbelt Rentals Inc. (404) 525-1919

EV Station Supplier/Installer

KonectaEV ........................... (678) 300-6911

Facility Management

Velociti Services (404) 840-7852

Facility Support

Conger Electrical Services (678) 690-0038

Fleetwash Inc. (770) 864-8490

PENTA Engineering Group Inc. (678) 282-1999

Stone Mountain Access Systems (770) 908-2936

Financial Services

Graham Group ...................... (404) 634-4652

Fire Protection

ADT Commercial, LLC / Critical Systems .................. (770) 612-9172

AFA Protective Systems Inc. (770) 794-9000

American Fire Protection Services, LLC (877) 832-4759

Basesix Systems LLC 678-833-8351

Century Fire Protection LLC .. (678) 775-4870

International Fire Protection (770) 745-4530

Life Safety Solutions Plus LLC (770) 843-3671

Mitec Controls Inc. (770) 813-5959

Siemens Industry Inc. (678) 230-0625

Fire/Water/Mold Restoration

BELFOR Property Restoration (770) 939-0128

BluSky Restoration Contractors ......................... (470) 345-5327

BMS CAT ..................................... (770) 614-3248

Capital Restoration (770) 973-1666

EPIC (770) 516-3491

Full Circle Restoration, A Cotton Company (770) 232-9797

Parker Young Construction, A RESCON Company (678) 634-8538

Paul Davis of Central and Southern Georgia (770) 450-0495

Remediation Group/ RGI Commercial .......................... (404) 214-1470

ServiceMaster Cleaning & Restoration ................................. (770) 514-1789

SERVPRO Disaster Recovery of North Atlanta (404) 902-5688

SERVPRO of Decatur ................... (770) 820-1319

SERVPRO of Norcross (404) 640-7831

SERVPRO of North Lilburn / SERVPRO of North Lawrenceville (770) 709-3266

SERVPRO of Panthersville ............. (470) 257-1716

Waterproofing Contractors Inc. (770) 449-5552

Generators

Ultimate Service Associates ........... (918) 836-8701

Glass

NGS Films and Graphics (470) 523-0014

Guard Services

Allied Universal Security Services (678) 923-5775

Marksman Security Corporation (678) 923-5775

Prosegur ...................................... (404) 312-6162

Security Solutions of America (470) 543-1157

Securitas Security Services USA .... (470) 773-1074

Health & Hygiene Products

Essity Professional Hygiene (678) 642-6042

GOJO Industries ........................... (330) 819-0044

Life Safety Solutions Plus LLC (770) 843-3671

Rubbermaid Commercial Products .... 470-356-5088

HVAC

Addison Smith Mechanical Contractor Inc. ............................ (770) 832-9006

Axis Portable Air (718) 213-3148

Capital City Mechanical Services Inc. (770) 449-0200

Daikin Applied (770) 514-5880

Ductz Of Greater Atlanta (770) 631-2424

EMCOR Services Aircond (404) 430-5941

ENTEK......................................... (678) 910-1326

Harbin’s Mechanical Services, Inc. (770) 914-7060

HVH Mechanical Partners LLC ...... (470) 444-1442

Legacy Mechanical Services Inc. (770) 432-1171

Mallory & Evans Service ................. (478) 747-0551

Maxair Mechanical LLC (678) 940.7413

McKenney’s Inc. (404) 635-4710

Shumate Mechanical, Inc. (678) 584-0880

Southeast Pump & Equipment Inc. 770-329-1417

Trane (678) 775-4302

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Interior Design

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Nova Commercial Interiors Inc. ........................ (770) 592-0260

Janitorial

Able Services (678) 245-3270

ABM .................................... (678) 245-3270

Allied International Cleaning Services, Inc. ...................... (770) 426-8779

BCJ Building Services (770) 601-4880

Building Cleaning Solutions, Inc. (770) 833-4385

Building Maintenance Services Inc. ....................... (770) 218-2993

CBM Atlanta Inc. (770) 988-9001

CleanRight Services .............. (404) 267-1312

Constant Contract Services, LLC (404) 583-8514

Distinguished Properties Cleaning USA Inc. (DPC) (404) 418-1443

Environmental Service Partners (470) 654-0569

General Building Maintenance Inc. (770) 457-5678

Georgia Pacific Corporation (770) 815-9552

HTH Building Services Inc. .... (770) 988-0084

Kimberly-Clark Corporation (678) 327-9041

Phoenix Commercial Cleaning (470) 226-6101

Planned Companies (571) 220-7475

Pritchard Industries SE .......... (404) 231-1430

Pro Squared Janitorial Services (678) 905-8885

Rubbermaid Commercial Products 470-356-5088

Lake Management

Aquascape Environmental (678) 445-0077

Landscaping-Exterior

BrightView Landscape Services (770) 822-9530

Color Burst (770) 822-9706

Chapel Valley Landscape Co. (470) 244-0980

Cumberland Landscape Group (470) 423-4105

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Foliage Design Systems (770) 451-0885

Gibson Landscape Services (404) 991-1864

Greenwood Group Landscape (404) 886-6104

Ground Game ....................... (678) 982-6985

HighGrove Partners (678) 626-3469

LandCare LLC (678) 475-1780

Landscape Workshop (678) 714-5100

Life on Earth, LLC (404) 875-6706

Nature Scapes Inc. (770) 923-7023

Plant Peddler, Inc. ................. (770) 432-2649

Ruppert Landscape (470) 219-3032

Russell Landscape Group ...... (404) 520-7903

Sedgefield Interior Landscapes, Inc. (770) 984-0171

Southern Landscapes And Designs (708) 602-0959

The GreenSeason Group, Inc. (678) 714-4114

Yardnique Family of Companies (678) 812-9858

Yellowstone Landscape (404) 668-4508

Lighting

Blue Frog Lighting (404) 569-7995 E. Sam Jones Distributor Inc...................... (404) 307-8504

Voss Lighting (770) 438-8557

Managed Services

Kastle Systems ..................... (404) 272-4765

Marble Restoration & Maintenance

ADDCO Metal Maintenance Co. ................. (770) 985-5611

Mid America Specialty Services ............................. (800) 544-4576

Natural Stone Services (404) 255-8133

Metal Finishing ADDCO Metal Maintenance Co. (770) 985-5611

Mid America Specialty Services (800) 544-4576

Office Furniture Atlanta Office Liquidators Inc. (404) 505-9623

Paint/Wallcoverings

A & D Painting Inc. (404) 376-7076

American Painting & Renovations Inc. (770) 995-8787

Artistic Painting Concepts ...... (678) 222-6049 Atlanta Painting Company (404) 550-0101 Burke Painting, Inc. ............... (770) 582-0847

CertaPro Painters of Atlanta (404) 548-7940

Certapro Painters of Duluth & Norcross (678) 895-5730

CertaPro Painters of Roswell (678) 878-4088

Freeland Painting .................. (770) 289-0887

Horizon Painting and Renovations Inc. (404) 447-0385

Integrity Finishes, Inc. (678) 401-8969

Oakcliff Painting (404) 867-3707

P3 Painting & Renovations..... (470) 350-2452

Paint Applicators (470) 606-4268

Painters on Demand .............. (404) 603-6550

Sherwin-Williams 678-951-3214

Spectrum Painting Inc. .......... (770) 497-0101

Paper Products

Atlantic Paper & Packaging (770) 461-3557

Essity Professional Hygiene ... (678) 642-6042

Imperial Dade (774) 254-1867

Georgia Pacific Corporation.... (770) 815-9552

Kimberly-Clark Corporation (678) 327-9041

Parking

Kaney & Lane, LLC .............. (404) 892-8246

LAZ Parking (404) 787-2076

Legacy Parking Company ...... (678) 954-4778 ParkSimple (404) 217-4024

Reef Parking......................... (678) 793-5846

Parking Deck

Amano McGann (678) 897-1734

Ecosweep............................. (404) 904-1003

Spectrum Painting Inc. (770) 497-0101

Universal Parking & Transportation (404) 798-6327

Wildcat Striping, Sealing & Paving ................................ (678) 937-9525

Parking Equipment/Access Control

Amano McGann (678) 897-1734

Paving Products

Georgia Paving, Inc. (770) 623-0453

GWP Paving (770) 634-6507

Miller Brothers Paving (770) 491-3090

PKS Paving & Concrete Construction ......... (404) 401-8551

Rose Paving Company (678) 303-2500

The Surface Masters Inc. ....... (404) 821-2388

Wildcat Striping, Sealing & Paving (678) 937-9525

Pest Control

Bug Busters, Inc. (770) 517-0200

Northwest Exterminating Co., Inc. (678) 383-1011

Orkin Inc. (404) 609-9550

Peachtree Pest Control ......... (770) 931-9099

Pest USA (770) 985-4444

Rooter Plus!.......................... (770) 888-1931

Plumbing

Addison Smith Mechanical Contractor Inc. .................... (770) 832-9006

HM Plumbing (770) 792-1200

Keever, Dalton, & Johnson, Inc. (770) 717-1945

Legacy Mechanical Services Inc. ....................... (770) 432-1171

Rooter ProXpress Plumbing Drain Cleaning and Septic Services, Inc ...... (470) 299-6805

Southeast Pump & Equipment Inc. 770-329-1417

Pressure Washing

Ecosweep (404) 904-1003

Everclear Enterprises Inc. (404) 876-9408

Kaney & Lane, LLC (404) 892-8246

SunBrite Services .................. (770) 277-6363

Top Of the Line High Rise Service LLC (404) 569-9544

Valcourt Building Services LLC (770) 971-2000

WiseGuys Pro-Wash ............. (404) 596-5559

Pump Service and Repair

Monumental Equipment, Inc. (770) 490-4001

Relocation Services

Flood Brothers Commercial Moving and Storage (404) 799-3744

PODS for Business ............... (470) 367-9595

Renovations

Cornerstone Renovation Group LLC ......................... (770) 363-2529

SterlingView Renovations (678) 612-0831

Restoration

Addco Restoration and Preservation Group, LLC (770) 688-5419

Archer Restortation Services (404)-434-6558

Cornerstone Renovation Group LLC ......................... (770) 363-2529

Paul Davis of Central and Southern Georgia (770) 450-0495 Southern Preservation Systems ............................. (770) 982-9970

Riser Management

IMG Technologies, Inc. (630) 737-9800

Roofing

All Roof Solutions

Commercial Inc. (404) 697-9294 Ameristar Roofing (470) 680-9330 ApolloPrimm Commercial Roofing............................... (770) 751-6191

C.L. Burks Construction - Commercial Roofing Contractors LLC ..... (706) 372-0509

Commercial Roofing Group LLC (770) 831-9440

Core Roofing Systems ........... (678) 514-2846

ENCORE Roofing Inc. (770) 945-0100 Empire Roofing Company Inc. (770) 948-7663

IRG VENTURES LLC d/b/a Innovative Roofing Group .... (404) 351-8797

Parsons Roofing Company (678) 756-0224

Reliable Roofing (770) 457-0000 Roof Partners LLC (404) 490-4647

Safeguard Roofing Group, LLC (770) 852-5045

Tecta America (404) 392-1367

Tower Roofing (770) 592-9889

Vista Roofing Systems, LLC (913) 940-9687

Zurix Roofing Systems (706) 587-2009

Sealcoating

The Surface Masters Inc. (404) 821-2388

Security

ADT Commercial, LLC / Critical Systems (770) 612-9172

Allied Universal Security Services (678) 923-5775

Alscan Inc. ............................ (803) 448-8656

Basesix Systems LLC 678-833-8351

DataWatch Systems .............. (678) 910-0778

Hexagon Security (832) 515-1289

International Fire Protection ... (770) 745-4530

Marksman Security Corporation (678) 923-5775

Mitec Controls Inc. ................ (770) 813-5959

Planned Companies (571) 220-7475

Prosegur .............................. (404) 312-6162

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Security Solutions of America .............................. (470) 543-1157

Walden Security (404) 937-1748

Signage

APCO Sign Systems ............. (404) 688-9000

NGS Films and Graphics (470) 523-0014

Riot Creative Imaging............. (404) 797-6785 Sign Systems (678) 765-8290

Storage

PODS for Business ............... (470) 367-9595

Tax Consultants

Fellers, Schewe, Scott & Roberts, Inc. ....................... (770) 621-9548

Graham Group (404) 634-4652

Windham Brannon, LLC ........ (678) 510-2735

Tenant and Workplace Experience Software

HqO (404) 403-1850

Transportation

Universal Parking & Transportation (404) 798-6327

Tree Care/Tree Services

Arborguard Tree Specialists (404) 299-5555

Bartlett Tree Experts (770) 496-9848

BrightView Landscape Services (770) 822-9530

Green America Tree Care (770) 560-8656

Jarvis Tree Experts ................ (678) 430-6216

Sesmas Tree Service LLC (770) 655-8597

SavATree (770) 889-2822

Tropical Plants

Foliage Design Systems (770) 451-0885 Life on Earth, LLC ................ (404) 875-6706 Plant Peddler, Inc. (770) 432-2649

Waste Removal

American Disposal Services ... (678) 736-0140 Waste Pro/Atlanta (678) 502-6297

Water Damage/Structure Drying

BELFOR Property Restoration (770) 939-0128

BluSky Restoration Contractors (470) 345-5327

BMS CAT (770) 614-3248 Capital Restoration (770) 973-1666 EPIC (770) 516-3491

Full Circle Restoration, A Cotton Company (770) 232-9797

Parker Young Construction, A RESCON Company (678) 634-8538 Remediation Group/ RGI Commercial .................. (404) 214-1470 SERVPRO Of Decatur (770) 820-1319 SERVPRO of North Lilburn/SERVPRO of North Lawrenceville (770) 709-3266 SERVPRO of Panthersville ..... (470) 257-1716

Water Leakage Protection

The Detection Group (470) 488-5106 WaterSignal LLC ................... (626) 222-7370

Water Treatment

Blackmore Enterprises Inc. (404) 474-4352

Waterproofing

Engineered Restorations Inc. (770) 682-0650 Everclear Enterprises Inc. (404) 876-9408

Southern Preservation Systems

(770) 982-9970

The Morley Companies (770) 569-1100

Western Specialty Contractors of America (678) 553-0170

Waterproofing Contractors Inc. (770) 449-5552

Window Cleaning

Top Of the Line High Rise Service LLC (404) 569-9544

Valcourt Building Services LLC ...................... (770) 971-2000 Yardi Systems (805) 618-5422

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Building Services & Maintenance

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Commercial Cleaning

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Concrete/Masonry/Structural Repairs

Engineered Restorations Inc. http://www.er-inc.net/

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Demolition

The Morley Companies https://www.morleycompany.com/

Electrical Contractors

Eckardt Group https://www.eckardtgroup.com/

Mayberry Electric, Inc. http://www.mayberryelectric.com/

Elevators

Phoenix Elevator of Georgia https://www.phoenixelevatorofga.com/

Escalators

Phoenix Elevator of Georgia https://www.phoenixelevatorofga.com/

Environmental Consultants

NOVA Engineering & Environmental www.usanova.com

Environmental Products & Services

The Morley Companies https://www.morleycompany.com/

Parking Deck Maintenance

The Morley Companies https://www.morleycompany.com/

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Paving Products and Services

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Wildcat Striping & Sealing https://www.wildcatstriping.com/

Pressure Washing

Everclear Enterprises Inc. https://everclearenterprises.com/ Specialty Roofing & Coatings, Inc. www.src-roofing.com

Top of the Line High Rise Service http://www.highriseservice.com/

Plumbing Products and Services Art Plumbing http://www.artplumbing.com/

Pumping Equipment

Monumental Equipment Inc www.monumentalequipment.com

Restoration & Preservation

Everclear Enterprises Inc. https://everclearenterprises.com/

The Morley Companies https://www.morleycompany.com/

Roofing Services and Products

Specialty Roofing & Coatings https://src-roofing.com/ Sealcoating

PKS Paving & Concrete Construction www.pksasphaltpavingatlanta.com Wildcat Striping & Sealing www.wildcatstriping.com

Tree Care/Tree Services

Arborguard Tree Specialist www.arborguard.com

Waterproofing

Engineered Restorations Inc. http://www.er-inc.net/

Everclear Enterprises Inc. https://everclearenterprises.com/

The Morley Companies https://www.morleycompany.com/

Top of the Line High Rise Service http://www.highriseservice.com/

Waterproofing Contractors https://www.wcinc.com/

Western Specialty Contractors http://www.westernspecialtycontractors.com/

Windows/Cleaning Equipment/Supplies

Everclear Enterprises Inc. https://everclearenterprises.com/

Top of the Line High Rise Service http://www.highriseservice.com/

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