This Week's Boston Deal Sheet

Inflation. Gas prices. Crime. Abortion rights.

These are some of the most pressing issues driving voters nationwide as they ponder the future of both chambers of Congress, weigh in on heated gubernatorial campaigns and consider local races and ballot measures that could reshape their communities.

Undoubtedly, these U.S. midterm elections are consequential, but for commercial real estate, there is really only one issue at play: the economy.

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One of Texas’ most widely used incentive programs is set to expire at the end of this year, compromising the state’s ability to lure industries that have long propelled its economy.

Authorized by the state legislature in 2001, the Texas Economic Development Act, known colloquially as Chapter 313, was designed to attract new manufacturing and renewable energy projects through a temporary abatement of school district taxes. 

The program enjoyed overwhelming bipartisan support for nearly two decades, leaving many stakeholders shocked when, in an unexpected turn of events last year, the state Senate declined to consider a bill that would have extended the program.

Now on the eve of an election that could change the makeup of Congress and state and local offices, it joins a long list of measures that could upset the balance of the Texas Miracle.

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LONDON — There are many different paths to the top of the global property advisory world, but perhaps few as unique as that taken by Tony Gibbon.

He left school at 15 and worked his way up from the very bottom, running errands for a London pension fund and soaking up knowledge as he went, before becoming an agent and setting up his own firm, BH2.

With that firm, he stole a march on global rivals by securing some of the world’s largest investors like Brookfield and Tishman Speyer as clients, putting together complex, multibillion-pound deals and showing that niche firms could still compete with the big guns in an increasingly international financial universe.

He became one of the few agents in the UK known by just one name: Gibbo. 

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