David Zere is the VP operations Zere Real Estate Services, Ronkonkoma, N.Y. and project manager for Nelson & Pope Engineers & Surveyors, Ronkonkoma, N.Y. What are your predictions for commercial real estate in the new decade? "Leadership is important in bringing businesses and government together to produce the right economic climate to encourage businesses to operate and flourish with a profit to remain on Long Island when many other states offer incredible incentives that lure companies out of our area and deplete our tax base. The private sector and the local government offices cannot have a blind eye towards one another. We have to work in unison for the future health of our business economy. "