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The Real Estate Challenge, NAIOP SFBA’s version of the Big Game, is a real estate development competition between legendary rivals Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley (Cal). The unique program is designed to give graduate students hands-on experience in real estate development. Teams are charged with devising and successfully pitching a solution to a complex real-world real estate problem. Participants embark on an intensive ten-week journey in which they engage with a large number of project sponsor representatives and city officials as well as real estate industry professionals for guidance and mentoring along the way. The COVID-19 pandemic raised the bar even higher on this year’s competition necessitating all presentations be conducted online.

NAIOP SFBA hosted an extremely important Zoom-In Webinar: How Will Prop 15 Impact California Commercial Real Estate, on Thursday, September 17th. The program featured Rex Hime, President and CEO of the California Business Properties Association (CBPA) which provides legislative advocacy for NAIOP in Sacramento. Hime explained the impact of Prop 15 which, if passed, will remove Prop 13’s property tax protection and will result in the largest property tax increase in history. He also provided an update on the work of the No On Prop 15 Campaign, a diverse bi-partisan coalition, and urged NAIOP members to get involved, NoOnProp15.org.

• POLL SHOWS SPLIT ROLL SLIPPING BUT STILL WITH A MAJORITY
• MORE ON PPIC POLL; WHAT IS SAYS ABOUT PROP 15 SPLIT ROLL
• COVID SHUTDOWN: MALLS FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST LA COUNTY
• CALCHAMBER STATEMENT ON NEW FAMILY RIGHTS ACT
• NFIB STATEMENT ON NEW FAMILY RIGHTS ACT
• BILLS AWAITING GOVERNOR’S ACTION
• CBPA 2020 CALENDAR

• STATEWIDE AND LOCAL EVICTION MORATORIUM
• NO ON PROP 15 - BROAD BASED BIPARTISAN OPPOSITION
• CCDA ACCESSIBILITY CONSTRUCTION INSPECTION CHECKLIST
• TENANTS’ TROUBLES PUT STRESS ON COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
• BILLS AWAITING GOVERNOR’S ACTION
• CBPA 2020 CALENDAR

The NAIOP San Francisco Bay Area Real Estate Challenge was established in 1990 by Steve Chamberlin, a local developer and emeritus adjunct professor in real estate at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, to give graduate students hands-on experience in real estate development. Every year teams from University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University Graduate School of Business are assigned a project site and given just 60 days to come up with a development proposal. A select panel of jurors reviews both proposals in detail and chooses a winner after the final team presentations are presented at the annual NAIOP SFBA Real Estate Challenge event.

• AND THEY ARE GONE!
• EVICTION MORATORIUM BILL SIGNED INTO LAW
• BILLS AWAITING GOVERNOR’S ACTION
• GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES NEW REOPENING GUIDELINES
• CBPA 2020 CALENDAR

• GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES NEW REOPENING GUIDELINES
• ALMOST OVER! THREE DAYS LEFT!
• UNLAWFUL DETAINER / EVICTION – COMPROMISE REACHED
• CBPA 2020 CALENDAR

• BUSINESS COMMUNITY CALL FOR DIVERSIFIED ENERGY
• CIVIL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE GROUPS BLAST SPLIT ROLL DONATIONS
• ALMOST OVER! TWO WEEKS LEFT!
• UNLAWFUL DETAINER BILLS – DOWN TO TWO
• CA JUDICIAL COUNCIL TO END EMERGENCY RULES ON EVICTION
• 2022 ENERGY CODE; INPUT REQUESTED
• CBPA 2020 CALENDAR

NAIOP SFBA hosted another timely and relevant Zoom-In webinar on Thursday, August 13th titled: Save SF Jobs, a special program with the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce about the work of their new Save SF Jobs Coalition, which the Chapter recently signed on to support. Chapter Government Affairs Committee Co-Chairs, Tess Brandwein, Associate, Shartsis Freise and Justin Shapiro, Principal, Long Market Property Partners produced and moderated the eye-opening program and featured members of the SF Chamber’s leadership team, including Rodney Fong, President & CEO, Jay Cheng, Public Policy Director & Media Relations, and Amelia Linde, Manager, Small Business Initiatives and Engagement. 

Briana Harney, Vice President, Debt & Equity, Northmarq Capital, receives national NAIOP 2020 Developing Leaders Award. The annual award honors up-and-coming professionals under the age of 35 for their remarkable professional accomplishments, strong leadership and significant community involvement.

• COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE CALL TO ACTION – HELP MITIGATE HEAT WAVE
• REALTIME ENERGY INFORMATION 
• CA GOVERNOR NEWSOM INFORMATION AND RESOURCES

• CA JUDICIAL COUNCIL TO END EMERGENCY RULES ON EVICTION
• SENATE PRO TEM STATEMENT ON JUDICIAL COUNCIL ACTION
• UNLAWFUL DETAINER BILLS
• POLL SHOWS STRATEGIES VOTERS FAVOR TO RESTORE ECONOMY
• MALLS AND RETAILERS LAUNCH “BUY SAFE AMERICA COALITION”
• 2022 ENERGY CODE; INPUT REQUESTED
• CBPA 2020 CALENDAR