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AAHOA Convention: Industry shows its Strong Influence in Washington

Chip Rogers, left, president and CEO of AAHOA and the 2017-18 officers gather on stage March 28 during the association’s opening general session. Officers are, from left, Hitesh (HP) Patel, vice chairman; Bhavesh Patel, chairman; Jagruti Panwala, treasurer; and Biran Patel, secretary.

By: Sarwar Alam

AAHOA celebrated its ‘greatest legislative accomplishment’ at 2018 convention near Washington, D.C., where it helped lobby for and won tax reform Twenty years ago, National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, was just a big idea. Peterson Cos., a real estate development enterprise, tagged 350 empty acres along America’s historic Potomac River as the best place to build a mixed-use community. The speed at which National Harbor has become a thriving destination marketplace with more than 3,300 hotels rooms is remarkable story of its own. Across the river sits Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital, making it altogether apropos that the Asian…

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