Bulletin

Christian Burns Northland Investment Corp.

President, Greater Hartford BOMA

Thank You and Happy Holidays

As 2018 draws to an end, I’d like to take just a mo-ment to wish everyone a very safe and joyous holi-day season. I’d also like to thank everyone for help-ing Greater Hartford BOMA have another highly successful year. This year we had near record at-tendance at our programs and social events which I think is a great indicator that we’re doing some-thing right! We’ve had the pleasure of meeting many new folks who we hope will join our group and enjoy the ben-efits of being GHBOMA members. As I’ve said before, the goal has been to offer timely, meaning-ful and above all else, fun and enjoyable programs and events to our members.

BUILDING OWNERS & MANAGERS ASSOCIATION Serving the Hartford/Springfield Area Winter 2018

Phone: 860-243-9691

Fax: 860-286-0787

www.bomahartford.org

Greater Hartford BOMA

One Regency Drive

P.O. Box 30

Bloomfield, CT 06002

As we look forward to yet another great year, I ask that you spread the word to anyone you think might want to join our wonderful group.

All my best!

Christian

Check us out at http://www.bomahartford.org/

Executive Director:

Sharon Moran

smoran@ssmgt.com

Executive Assistant:

Audrey Sutton: asutton@ssmgt.com

2018 Greater Hartford Officers, Board of Directors,

and Committee Chairs

Officers President-Christian Burns. RPA...............................Northland Investment Vice President-Cindy Huveldt…………...…….………..Paradigm Partners Secretary-Holly Dibble…………………………………………….…CBRE Treasurer-Linda Pizzella, RPA….. ............... ……….Fusco Management Immediate Past President-Ronald Goodin, LEED AP DC ....CrossKey Architects

Board of Directors Pamela Bayer, RPA…............................................................ CBRE-NE David Fagone, RPA ............................................................ RM Bradley Ed Riccio……………………………………………………………………... Russ Stevens ............................... …………...New England Mechanical

Committee Chairs TOBY Awards ...............................................................Peter Caniano Gus Johnson Golf Outing...............................Marty Scovill, Jen Rossi Membership………………………………………………...Dave Berthold

BOMA Hartford Office Sharon Moran ............ …….One Regency Drive, Bloomfield, CT 06002 Phone (860) 243-9691; Fax (860) 286-0787; E-Mail: smoran@ssmgt.com

BOMA Bulletin

The BOMA Bulletin is published by S&S Management Services, Inc., One Regency Drive, Bloomfield, CT 06002. Submit articles to Sharon Moran at smoran@ssmgt.com

Thank you to

the sponsor

of this newsletter:

Hoffmann Architects

Tri-State High Rise Services

BOMA Bulletin Articles/ Ads Deadline

The following is the deadline for submissions in the next issue: Issue Deadline

Summer June 1st

2019 Calendar of Events

April 4, 2019 MAC (Middle Atlantic Region) Conference

New York City

BOMA International

January 2019 Winter Business

Meeting and Miami, Florida

May 2019

Medical Office Building Conference Minneapolis, MN

June 2019

Summer Convention and Expo Salt Lake City, UT

2018 Sponsors

PLATINUM Northland Investment Corp.

www.northland.com

GOLD EMCOR Service

New England Mechanical www.nemsi.com

Griffin Industrial Realty www.griffinindustrial.com

SMG Corporate Services www.smgcorporateservices.com

SILVER Otis Elevator www.otis.com

Paradigm Partners www.paradigmprop.com

Premier Maintenance, an AffinEco Company www.affineco.com

BRONZE

ACRE Group www.acregroup.com

Belfor Property Restoration www.belfor.com

CBRE-NE www.CBRE.us

Eagle Rivet Roof Service www.ctroofing.contractors/

Kuzmak-Williams & Associates www.kwagroupct.com

OFS Corporations www.ofscorp.com

Pullman & Comley www.pullcom.com

Servpro of Manchester www.servpromanchestermansfield.com

Siemens Industry www.industry.usa.siemens.com

Suburban Integrated Facilities Resources www.suburbanresources.com

Titan Energy NE www.titanenergyne.com

Wattsaver Lighting Products

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Greater Hartford Building Owners and

Managers Association (BOMA) represents

commercial property owners and developers,

commercial real estate professionals, and

associate members through leadership, ad-

vocacy, research, outreach, and education.

BOMA/GREATER HARTFORD serves the

commercial real estate industry from northern

New Haven County to Springfield, MA

The Building Owners and Managers Associa-

tion (BOMA) International is a federation of

90 BOMA U.S. associations and 18 interna-

tional affiliates. Founded in 1907, BOMA rep-

resents the owners and managers of all com-

mercial property types including nearly 10.5

billion square feet of U.S. office space that

supports 1.7 million jobs and contrib-

utes $234.9 billion to the U.S. GDP. Its mis-

sion is to advance a vibrant commercial real

estate industry through advocacy, influence

and knowledge.

BOMA International is a primary source of

information on building management and op-

erations, development, leasing, building op-

erating costs, energy consumption patterns,

local and national building codes, legislation,

occupancy statistics, technological develop-

ments and other industry trends.

Learn more about BOMA International’s

100+ year history at www.boma.org.

Monthly Meeting Sponsorships

Meeting sponsorships are available for $250

for each meeting. You will have a table for

your brochures and literature and you will

have 5 minutes to speak to the members at

the program about your company. Watch

for more information on monthly meeting

sponsorships via email from Sharon every

month.

Join a Committee:

· Programs

· Membership

· Sponsorship

· Education

· Golf Outing

Greater Hartford BOMA has openings on all

committees for members who want to be in-

volved and ensure the continued growth of the

association. Committee meetings are a great

place to meet your fellow BOMA members in

a casual setting. Bring your ideas, your con-

tacts, and your energy to the meetings. The

more members that are involved, the stronger

the association becomes. We know that eve-

ryone benefits when there are many involved

and carrying the load. This is not a huge time

commitment.

Contact the Executive Office to find out more

about these committees.

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Look what we’ve been up to! September

Revitalizing Hartford

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Devra Sisitsky of Makerspace CT and Jamie Bratt of the City of Hartford

Working with a 3-D Printer

Look what we’ve been up to! October

Plane or Train?

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(l-r) Rich Jankovich of the CT Department of Transportation; Kevin Dillon of Bradley Airport;

Moderator Dave Fagone of RM Bradley

Thanks to our

Breakfast Sponsor:

Kimberly Clark

Look what we’ve been up to! November

UConn Hockey

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Thanks to our ticket sponsor

Belfor Restoration

Look what we’ve been up to! December

Holiday Social

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Toys for Tots

Look what we’ve been up to! December

Holiday Social

Executive Director Sharon Moran presents the Member of the Year award to Christian Burns

of Northland Investment Corp.

Greater Hartford BOMA President Christian Burns presents the Allied of the Year award to

Doreen Vasi of EBP.

Greater Hartford BOMA President Christian Burns presents the Engineer of the Year award

to Gary Rich of Northland Investment Corp.

Greater Hartford BOMA President Christian Burns presents the Corporation of the Year award to SMG Corporate Services (Michelle

Michaud and Scott Weintraub).

News You Should Know!

Elliott B. Pollack, Esq.

Pullman & Comley LLC

90 State House Square

Hartford, CT 06103

US Supreme Court Internet Sales Tax Decision and Property Values

I do not need to belabor the point that brick and mortar retail occupancies, rents and values have been pounded as a result of internet shopping – although in certain markets overstoring has also been a problem.

It is important, as a result, to try to estimate the impact that the US Supreme Court’s recent de-

cision in the Wayfair case will have in this area. As the Court pointed out quite eloquently, its previ-ous decisions exempting retailers from the requirement to collect state sales taxes - unless they had a physical presence in a state - was a subsidy to internet vendors that had become ridiculous. The Court noted that a hypothetical nationwide retailer with a 500,000 foot warehouse located ten feet from a state line could sell millions of dollars of merchandise into that bordering state without sales tax collections because it was not located there. On the other hand, a small re-tailer located in the state 100 yards away from the large retailer was mandated to collect the tax!

While consumers purchasing from an out of state company are technically required to file “use” tax returns and to pay the tax directly to the state taxing authority, almost none – except perhaps law abiding purchasers of large ticket items - did so. This unintended subsidy was wiped out in a singlestroke by the Court on June 26, 2018.

Will mandatory internet sales tax collection save or perhaps even revive some brick and mortar retailers? Will internet shopping decline or at least plateau as a result of the decades-old loss of the subsidy? Will some Americans be weaned off their internet shopping habits and start think-ing about local merchants?

Tune in a few years from now. In any and all events, however, the Wayfair decision can only be seen as a positive development for the retail real estate space.

BOMA INTERNATIONAL NEWS (continued)

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The Home Depot offers BOMA members an exclusive annual rebate of 2% on all qualifying pre-tax purchases. There is no cost to enroll. Enroll today at boma.org and start saving!

Visit BOMA International’s web site: www.boma.org to see more about this offer, as well as other member benefit group pur-chasing offers.

So many of the BOMA members through-out the country have been receiving a rebate from this great offer. Don’t delay in sign-ing up for this!!!!

Greater Hartford BOMA will also re-ceive a percentage of the money spent at

Home Depot….

To date, over $4 million has been reim-bursed to members and over $90,000 has been shared with BOMA locals. Home De-pot has had $166.6 million in sales from BOMA members.

BOMA International's advocacy team has achieved many successes so far in 2018, continuing to positively impact the commercial real estate industry and protect our members' livelihood. BOMA International's presi-dent, Henry Chamberlain, testified before Congress on the importance of the Energy Efficient Commercial Building Tax Deduction (179D). We gained huge head-way in ADA Lawsuit reform with the passage of H.R. 620 in the House, the ADA Education & Reform Act. And in June, Congress kept the ENERGY STAR® program fully funded in the FY 19 budget.

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The W2 Challenge is a two-year initiative to support commercial real estate practitioners in benchmarking water and waste consumption and associated costs, and implementing best practices to improve performance. With the support of a generous grant from Yardi, and in partnership with the BOMA Local Associations, BO-MA International is proud to launch this Challenge that expands the sustainability efforts of the commercial real estate industry. The program runs from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2019, and participants will be eligible for recognition for their leadership from BOMA Inter-national. Year 1 will establish a baseline and Year 2 will promote performance improvements. …………………………………………………………

For more than a century, BOMA International has set the standard for measuring buildings. In 1915, BOMA published its first Standard Method of Floor Measure-ment for Office Buildings, an accepted and approved methodology by the American National Standards Insti-tute (ANSI). Throughout the years the standard has been revised to reflect the changing needs of the real estate market and the evolution of office building de-sign. Today, BOMA is the secretariat for a suite of measurement standards.

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BOMA International continues to be a major contribu-tor to building codes development as the only national commercial real estate association with an active build-ing codes advocacy program. BOMA’s codes team, in partnership with state and local BOMA Codes Commit-tees, works to ensure that the interests of commercial real estate are represented from building codes develop-ment to implementation.

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BOMA International has been actively involved in de-veloping best practices in emergency and security pre-paredness throughout its history. Office building securi

ty and emergency preparedness has always been a top concern, and since 9/11 we have shifted con-siderable resources to meet the increased security needs of buildings. BOMA has published tools for property managers to evaluate security prepared-ness, create evacuation plans and perform risk assessments on their properties.

Please Support our Members that so generously support the

BOMA Bulletin!

Did you know, as a BOMA member:

• You receive significant savings through codes and standards advocacy

• Cutting edge and timely information through award winning publications

• Vital industry intelligence such as the BOMA Experience Exchange Report (EER) provid-

ing benchmarking data • Exclusive discounts and rebates (Home De-

pot) with several national companies • Provides leading security and emergency pre-

paredness information and training to protect building assets

• Expansive international platform to serve as a gateway to new markets to build future busi-

ness and value

And so many more benefits!! www.bomahartford.org

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Platinum Sponsor: $3,500 includes:

• 5 Attendees to each of the two Sports Events planned for 2019: Yard Goats Baseball and UConn Football

• Company name listed on monthly meeting flyers

• Company name and www address listed on Power Point that will be displayed at monthly meetings

• 7 ‘free’ passes to any monthly meeting (not in-cluding golf outing or Sports Events) • Recognition in 2019 BOMA Bulletin (2 editions)

Gold Sponsor: $2,000 includes:

• 5 Attendees to one of the Sports Events planned for 2019: Yard Goats Baseball and UConn Football

• Company name listed on monthly meeting fly-ers

• Company name and www address listed on Power Point that will be displayed at monthly meetings

• 5 ‘free’ passes to any monthly meeting (not including golf outing or Sports Events) • Recognition in 2019 BOMA Bulletin (2 edi-

tions)

Silver Sponsor: $1,000 includes:

• Company name listed on monthly meeting flyers

• Company name and www address listed on Power Point that will be displayed at monthly meetings

• 3 ‘free’ passes to any monthly meeting (not in-cluding golf outing or Sports Events) • Recognition in 2019 BOMA Bulletin (2 editions)

Bronze Sponsor: $500 includes:

• Company name listed on monthly meeting fly-ers

• Company name and www address listed on Power Point that will be displayed at monthly meetings

• 1 ‘free’ pass to any monthly meeting (not in-cluding golf outing or Sports Events)

• Recognition in 2019 BOMA Bulletin (2 edi-tions)

2019 Sponsorship Opportunities

Please Support our Members that so generously support Greater Hartford BOMA!

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Please Support our Members that so generously support Greater Hartford BOMA!

Goodbye

To the Greater Hartford BOMA members:

I wish to take this time to say goodbye to all of you. As many of you know, I am retiring on December

21st after 14 years of working with Greater Hartford BOMA. It has been my pleasure to get to know you

and to help you grow your organization and realize your goals.

Over the years, there have been many involved and committed members, from the board to the individual

committees. I could not have done my job without their continued support and encouragement, but most-

ly, their friendship. I will follow Greater Hartford BOMA and the many events that will be hosted over

the next year. I look forward to seeing pictures of your events and accomplishment as a thriving associa-

tion!

I leave you in good hands….Lisa Hutner will be my replacement, and both she and Audrey Sutton, my

assistant, will continue the forward motion of the association….please reach out to them should you need

an answer, to offer your help on a committee or to just say ‘hi’.

Fondly,

Sharon Moran