Mark Hall is a commercial real estate agent and land developer based in Savannah. His experience in the local market over the last 30 years gives him a unique level of expertise and knowledge. Mr. Hall’s approach to real estate is relationship-based. Throughout his career he has developed connections with community and municipal leaders which he harnesses for the benefit of his clients. Mr. Hall has helped acquire strategic tracts of land and get them entitled/rezoned for the large scale industrial warehousing and distribution centers. Collectively this represents over 3,200 acres of industrial development around the seaport.
Dr. Walter Kemmsies is widely viewed as one of the foremost experts on ports, rail, and infrastructure in the U.S. His areas of expertise include demand forecasting, maritime and overall global trade regulatory issues, public and private port and infrastructure financing, and long term strategic planning and capital investment. Having worked in major cities all over the world, Walter has a global perspective which uniquely qualifies him as a global trade economist. Walter currently advises several major U.S. Port Authorities and is routinely asked to work on complex issues with various investment banks, private equity firms, and public regulatory agencies.
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Mark Hall is a commercial real estate agent and land developer based in Savannah. His experience in the local market over the last 30 years gives him a unique level of expertise and knowledge. Mr. Hall’s approach to real estate is relationship-based. Throughout his career he has developed connections with community and municipal leaders which he harnesses for the benefit of his clients. Mr. Hall has helped acquire strategic tracts of land and get them entitled/rezoned for the large scale industrial warehousing and distribution centers. Collectively this represents over 3,200 acres of industrial development around the seaport.
Dr. Walter Kemmsies is widely viewed as one of the foremost experts on ports, rail, and infrastructure in the U.S. His areas of expertise include demand forecasting, maritime and overall global trade regulatory issues, public and private port and infrastructure financing, and long term strategic planning and capital investment. Having worked in major cities all over the world, Walter has a global perspective which uniquely qualifies him as a global trade economist. Walter currently advises several major U.S. Port Authorities and is routinely asked to work on complex issues with various investment banks, private equity firms, and public regulatory agencies.
In this episode, Mark Hall and Dr. Walter Kemmsies discuss the 2024 Election.
Excerpts: Let's take a look at the Biden and we'll take a look at what it's likely to happen under Trump. Under Biden, we passed the IJA that was the Infrastructure Investment for Jobs Act, and then we passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which did the opposite. Under Biden, a lot of money got spent on infrastructure. Some of it was appropriately spent for national security reasons. This is not a pick on China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea. It just simply that during Covid, America was smacked in the head with the two by four with an important lesson. You cannot depend on the world economy to do what you want it to do. If Covid hits and you don't have enough masks and you don't have enough medical equipment, and the whole world has got Covid, if you snap your fingers, guess what the answer is? Get lost! And so we struggled.
He failed to convince the consumer. There were other things that should have been invested in for manufacturing in the U.S. that didn't get done. So 60% of all that boom in construction, spending, construction and manufacturing was for EV and EV related stuff. Some of it's good, some of it was too much, and then the rest should have been for medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, other things. When the proverbial crap hits the fan. You can, use the Defense Procurement Act and tell American companies to make these things that we need because of a national emergency.
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Mark Hall is a commercial real estate agent and land developer based in Savannah. His experience in the local market over the last 30 years gives him a unique level of expertise and knowledge. Mr. Hall’s approach to real estate is relationship-based. Throughout his career he has developed connections with community and municipal leaders which he harnesses for the benefit of his clients. Mr. Hall has helped acquire strategic tracts of land and get them entitled/rezoned for the large scale industrial warehousing and distribution centers. Collectively this represents over 3,200 acres of industrial development around the seaport.
Dr. Walter Kemmsies is widely viewed as one of the foremost experts on ports, rail, and infrastructure in the U.S. His areas of expertise include demand forecasting, maritime and overall global trade regulatory issues, public and private port and infrastructure financing, and long term strategic planning and capital investment. Having worked in major cities all over the world, Walter has a global perspective which uniquely qualifies him as a global trade economist. Walter currently advises several major U.S. Port Authorities and is routinely asked to work on complex issues with various investment banks, private equity firms, and public regulatory agencies.
