Message from the President

Hello fellow NAIOP members,

We know most of you are working from your new home office and trying to keep life moving forward as normal as possible. While we are in very interesting and ever-changing times, we also want to do all we can to keep the commercial real estate market moving in a positive direction, albeit in a manner that makes sense and keeps people safe and healthy. This is so important to our state and local economies and, more importantly, to the many families that depend on the paychecks that our industry provides.

We have been very fortunate to have our local leadership continue to work keeping things open for business. We ask you to support our leadership, both locally and statewide, as difficult decisions are being made but done so in an effort to best fight the coronavirus. With most of us working from home, hopefully, it will help keep the spread to a minimum thus allowing us to get back to business as usual sooner rather than later. In the meantime, your NAIOP Charlotte leadership is discussing virtual learning opportunities to discuss best practices for dealing with this so that we can all share and learn in order to benefit all of us. This situation is one where we are all in it together and so anything we can share and learn will benefit all of us.

Our NAIOP staff is also working to put together conversations, that will be shared via webinars, within the next week. We see great opportunities to both keep our members informed, learning and connected. We are missing the comradery that we love to share and so, hopefully, any forums or virtual meetings we can have will help to meet some of that connectivity.

NAIOP Charlotte has a very strong reputation and we are hopeful that as all of us learn how to deal with the current situation we can share that with North Carolina state leadership. This will enhance our standing and show them we are an organization they can look to for answers and guidance during both the good times and the challenging ones. To that end, please consider participating as things are offered and look to help with best practices so that we can put together a living document outlining what is working as well as what is not working for the good of everyone in the commercial real estate market.

Thank you so much for being a part of NAIOP and helping to support this great industry we all care so much about. Please feel free to reach out with any questions, comments or concerns as we are here to offer any assistance we can. You can reach us at [email protected]

Scott Harris
2020 NAIOP Charlotte President

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