Andrew Coen

Last year, I did something I never expected to do. I became a lobbyist. Not professionally, but I believed strongly enough in an issue that I found myself on @Amtrak to Washington more times than I can count. The goal was simple to make 100% bonus depreciation permanent. Not temporary. Not phasing out. Permanent. Real estate projects can take three, four, sometimes five years and developers cannot plan around a benefit that might disappear. Over the course of 50 to 75 meetings, I explained car wash economics to U.S. senators and took follow up calls while legislation was being written. And it worked. Less than a year later, we have already seen 300 to 400 projects come across our desks at @wearesurmount from developers ready to move because of it. I shared more of the story with @AndrewCoen in @commobserver: commercialobserver.com/2026/…