Beating High-Tech Industry on Office Building Access Issue was Top Achievement, Says BOMA's Outgoing President

ORLANDO-Defeating the telecommunications industry on its aggressive move to require mandatory access to office buildings was the crowning touch on a list of achievements Bert Locke managed to direct in his two years as president of the Florida chapter of the Building Owners and Managers Association.

“Overcoming the telecom industry’s efforts to seize real estate holdings from private property owners has been a chore,” Locke tells GlobeSt.com. “The education of the state’s Public Service Commission and those state legislators, who were misled, proved to be an uphill battle.”

BOMA’s strategy in winning the legislative battle was “sending letters and faxes, making countless phone calls and walking the halls in Tallahassee (the state capital) to get our concerns heard,” the broker says.