CALCHAMBER URGES PULL BACK OF EMERGENCY COVID RULES On behalf of all employers in the state of California, including the commercial, industrial, and retail real estate industry, the CalChamber has urged the California Legislature this week to correct a series of costly COVID-19 workplace mandates imposed through an emergency regulation order. “The regulation, issued by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) late in 2020, requires employers to take a number of extraordinary ...

RESIDENTIAL EVICTION MORATORIUM EXTENSION SIGNED INTO LAW Today Governor Newsom signed into law an extension of the State’s eviction moratorium, language that came together over the past week that includes how to spend $2.6 Billion in federal funds tagged for residential rent relief. The deal extends the provisions of AB 3088 signed into law last Fall, to June 30, 2021, with a few additions, including how to distribute Federal funds.  The bill establishes the State Rental Assistance Program to ...

***BREAKING NEWS:  JUDGE RULES IN FAVOR OF TEJON RANCH This afternoon, a Kern County Superior Court Judge ruled in favor of Tejon Ranch and Kern County over its 2019 re-entitlement of Grapevine. The judge decisively rejected the Center for Biological Diversity’s lawsuit — their 12th — against Tejon Ranch. Many are pointing to this as a form of CEQA lawsuit abuse and an example of why housing and commercial space (homes and jobs) is so difficult and expensive to build in California. Click here ...

CBPA IN REVIEW AND LOOKING FORWARD; LAST YEAR, 2021, AND BEYOND Please see the message below from Rex S. Hime, President and CEO, California Business Properties Association, looking back at a tough year, and setting the framework for moving forward. —– California Commercial Real Estate Leaders: Thank you for continuing to support California Business Properties Association (CBPA) through your association’s affiliation and/or your company’s direct membership.  CBPA provides a critical ...

GOVERNOR NEWSOM APPOINTS REX HIME TO HISTORIC POST In what is believed to be a historic gubernatorial action in California, CBPA President and CEO Rex S. Hime has been re-appointed to the California Exposition and State Fair Board by Governor Newsom.  Hime has now been appointed by six different California Governors from both political parties (Newsom, Brown, Schwarzenegger, Davis, Wilson, and Reagan to various positions. “I thank Governor Newsom for his confidence in re-appointing me to the State ...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING BOMA CALIFORNIA would like to wish all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving and hope you get some time off. California is a great state, we live in a wonderful country, and we have a lot to be thankful for. We hope you get to spend some quality time with loved ones next week even if its through ZOOM! Please take a moment to reflect and thank the men and women in uniform who are serving our country overseas away from their families at this time and be sure to protect yourself and loved ...

PROP. 15 – CA’S $11B SPLIT ROLL PROPERTY TAX – DEFEATED! WE DID IT!  THANKS TO ALL OF YOU! CBPA is pleased to announce that we called the race for Prop. 15 – Split Roll Property Tax – and it has been DEFEATED! This has been an effort years in the making and it could not have been done without your unwavering support.  We at CBPA have never seen our industry come together like we did to defeat this threat.  You, our members, helped educate peers, tenants, family members; you have helped ...

PROP 15 – CA’S $11B SPLIT ROLL PROPERTY TAX – DEFEATED! Please see the following message from Rex S. Hime: California Commercial Real Estate and Business Leaders, I am pleased to announce that we are finally calling the race for Prop. 15 – Split Roll Property Tax has been defeated! This has been an effort years in the making and it could not have been done without your unwavering support.  I have never seen our industry come together like we did to defeat this threat.  You have helped educate ...

ELECTIONS NOVEMBER 2020! Election Day has come and gone but the votes are still being counted in what has turned out to be one of the wildest elections ever.  Record numbers came out to vote in an election that will see the highest vote total ever for a winning Presidential candidate and a sharply divided electorate with several states still undecided.   PROPOSITION 15 – SPLIT ROLL PROPERTY TAX – UPDATE!? The battle over implementing an $11B split roll property tax that has all but consumed ...

ELECTION DAY IS TUESDAY; VOTE NO ON SPLIT ROLL AND RENT CONTROL There are a lot of propositions on the ballot, but here are the two we care about most: Prop 15 – Split Roll Property Tax – VOTE NO!!! Prop 21 – Statewide Rent Control – VOTE NO! Please help us defeat split roll property tax and statewide rent control by voting NO on these measures. Encourage everyone you know to do the same!      Read More →