Exciting news! High Ridge Park Corporate Center, owned by George Comfort & Sons, has won BOMA's Mid-Atlantic Regional Building of the Year competition in the category of Low Rise Suburban Office Park. This is a big deal! We all congratulate George Comfort & Sons and Jodi Gutierrez and her team for their achievement and we thank them for representing Southern Connecticut BOMA in the international TOBY competition at BOMA's Annual Conference and The Office Building Show in Denver in June. If you have not attended the BOMA Annual Conference in the past, you owe it to your organization and to yourself to go and now is the time plan for it. (Go to www.boma.org.) The professional world in which we all operate is changing faster than we could have imagined even a few short years ago. The BOMA Conference offers everyone in the office building world a unique convergence of knowledge and ideas. Old dogs will not fare well in today's market without some new tricks. Back at home, we're doing our best to do our part. On March 27th BOMA hosted a panel of local economic development experts who spoke about how and why communities in our region need to collaborate and invest in basic infrastructure to avoid getting our proverbial butts kicked by more progressive-minded regions. The task is daunting. BOMA's Mid-Atlantic Conference will be held at Foxwoods from April 23rd - 25th which is being hosted by BOMA Greater Hartford. The conference will be kicked off on Wednesday April 23rd at 4:00 p.m. with Henry Chamberlain, BOMA International president, speaking about Market Transformation and BOMA's 7-Point Challenge. Southern Connecticut BOMA will host a reception following Henry's talk and we invite you to meet Henry and attend our reception even if you won't be able to attend the entire conference. On May 29th starting at 4:30, Southern Connecticut BOMA will host its first "Green" Exposition at High Ridge Park Corporate Center, which will be followed by a dinner. I invite you to become an active participant in Southern Connecticut BOMA's valuable learning and information network.