Business View Civil and Municipal | September 2022

29 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 9 CAL I FORNI A BUS INESS PROPERT I ES ASSOC I AT ION labor. “It has been a huge issue. We at CBPA over the past year have been working with a number of groups in Sacramento to communicate on this with the Governor’s office and with legislators. I think you’ll see a more focused effort on goods movement coming up over the next year. And trying to explain to not just policy makers because we think many of them understand that there’s a goods movement problem. A lot of those problems are rooted in some policies coming out of the legislature and from the regulatory agencies. “So we need to be able to communicate to the general public and others what we see as issues that are creating some of these bottlenecks. That’s everything from infrastructure investment to greenhouse gas policies that are putting California at somewhat of a disadvantage compared to other states.” point about COVID is that it did have different impacts on different sectors, and different companies within those sectors.” BVM: How big of a challenge is the ongoing supply chain disruption? Hargrove: “Supply chain and goods movement is the number one thing that we’re focusing on as an association right now. The fact that we saw how fragile our supply chain was during COVID…many of the folks on our board have for years been pointing out that there are supply chain issues in the State of California for a number of different reasons. The way it impacts commercial real estate is that we are a real stakeholder in the goods movement sector. Everything from having the warehouse and logistics centers, to representing large retailers that have had empty shelves because of it, to not being able to get supplies for our construction projects and what that does to