BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20200423T163000Z DTEND:20200423T173000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:UDI Webinar: Legal Update: Commercial Tax Relief and REDMA Marketing Extension DESCRIPTION:[VIDEO] WEBINAR RECORDING\n\n\n\nPlease register at this link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9VuhR23BRgSq4WGqVEcOSA\n\n \n\nLast week\, the Provincial Government announced enhanced relief for businesses by reducing most commercial property tax bills. \n\n \n\nIn addition\, the Superintendent of Real Estate released details yesterday regarding a three month extension to the nine month marketing period under Policy Statement 5 and 6.\n\n \n\nJoin our expert panel as they assess the impact of these changes on our industry. \n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured panel: \n\n\n Mark Lewis\, Partner Bennett Jones LLP\n Paul Sullivan\, Managing Partner BCS Real Estate\n Anne McMullin\, President and CEO - Urban Development Institute (moderator)\n\n \n\nBIOS\n\n\n\nMark Lewis\, Partner\, Bennett Jones LLP\n\nMark Lewis is a partner at Bennett Jones. He practises in the areas of real estate development\, commercial lending and commercial real estate leasing\, with an emphasis on residential\, commercial and resort developments\, and commercial financing transactions. Having worked on numerous projects for developers and lenders\, Mark has extensive experience in the following areas: structuring co-ownership\, joint venture\, limited partnership and limited liability partnership relationships for real estate development projects\; representing institutional lenders in real estate financing transactions\; representing private capital lenders in connection with mezzanine\, equity and profit participation loans\; representing surety companies in deposit protection insurance transactions\; representing both landlords and tenants in commercial\, retail and industrial leasing transactions and advising clients with respect to zoning\, bylaw and other real estate regulatory compliance matters. He has been a UDI Board member\, and has chaired UDI's Legal Issues Committee\, since 2012. \n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Sullivan\, Managing Partner BCS Real Estate\n\nPaul Sullivan joined Burgess\, Cawley\, Sullivan and Associates (BCS) in 1992\, and became a partner in 2004. On graduation from the University of British Columbia\, he approached Geoff Burgess\, who persuaded Paul to join the firm. He began learning the appraisal side of the business\, but soon found his passion in the tax appeal aspects of BCS.\n\n\n\nMr. Sullivan is not only head of the property tax division here at BCS\, he is the most renowned property tax specialists in British Columbia. Every year\, Paul and his team save clients millions of dollars in annual property taxes. He not only negotiates on clients' behalf\; he appears as an advocate during BC Assessment appeals process.\n\n\n\nPaul spends his leisure time with his family playing polo\, biking and walking his two rescue dogs.\n\n\n\n\n\nAnne McMullin\, President and CEO - Urban Development Institute (moderator) \n\nAnne McMullin is the President and CEO of the Urban Development Institute (UDI) the leading voice for the development industry in BC. Anne joined UDI in 2012 following a career path which has incorporated extensive experience in Public Affairs and Community Engagement over a span of more than 20 years. \n\n \n\nPrevious to her role at UDI\, Anne was the President and General Manager of the North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce. Prior to that she was Director of Communications at Port Metro Vancouver\, President of the BC Salmon Farmers' Association\, a reporter for Global TV in Vancouver\, and a reporter and broadcaster for Mountain FM in Squamish. Anne is a Board Member with UBC Properties Trust\, a Trustee with the Jack Webster Foundation Excellence in Journalism and is a volunteer with many other community organizations. Previously Anne was a Board Member with BC's Knowledge Network\, Vice Chair of Field Hockey Canada and President of the West Vancouver Field Hockey Club. \n\n \n\nAnne studied political science at the University of British Columbia\, and holds a journalism diploma from the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). In 2017 Anne received the BCIT Distinguished Alumni award. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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