International Council of Shopping Centers- Florida Govenment Affairs Committee

In today’s highly regulated world every industry needs people that build relationships with the appropriate convement official. For the shopping center industry, that group is the International Council of Shopping Centers Govenmbet affairs Committee (the GAC).

Initially formed in 19--- , the GAC has taken on the role of lobist as well as watch dog. Over the past few years this group has halted, promoted, drafted or modified many pieces of legislation that are critical to the commeriacxl real estate industry as a whole and the shopping center industry in particular. Leaders form all sectors of the retail industry combuin to from a potent goup that has built a powerful reputation in Tallahassee and Washington D.C. This article will profile some of the GAC’s most important issues of past and present as well as profile some of the invisible heros of the GAC.