An open letter from Tim Lawless, President, NAIOP-AZ: Dear NAIOP-AZ Member – this afternoon (February 16, 2011), the Arizona State Legislature passed the most sweeping economic development/job recovery bill in years (HB 2001).  According to Governor Brewer, “This is the most historic piece of legislation to be heard by the Legislature in decades.”

Significantly, NAIOP-AZ’s top three priorities to: 1) reform our uncompetitive commercial property tax system; 2) to lower our corporate income tax rate; and 3) to enact a deal-closing fund to attract new firms to the State are all contained in the bill that is expected to be signed into law tomorrow by the Governor.  This is a remarkable turn of events for our industry.

By Julie A. Johnson, CCIM
Executive Vice President, GPE Commercial Advisors
Written for NAIOP Magazine, December 3, 2010 Issue

With the passing of the healthcare reform bill earlier this year, the implementation of healthcare reform is taking shape and the shift to provide healthcare to an additional almost 32 million uninsured by 2014 as well as to provide the additional healthcare requirements to the approximately 80 million baby boomers just starting to reach the high healthcare needs of that population is underway.