One by one, the obstacles that hampered the clean-up and redevelopment of contaminated properties by private investors are falling away. After years of disuse, a massive industrial parcel in a Cleveland neighborhood has again become a productive part of the community.
Summer 2000

In a few days thousands of real estate professionals will congregate in Chicago for this year's NAR convention. And what will be on everyone's mind? Doing business in the new era. Peter G. Miller comments.
January 2000

Many shopping centers are obsolete and have little chance of regaining their competitiveness - it's time to apply adaptive reuse more aggressively to retail properly.
Fall 1999

For three decades, Singer Furniture Co. dominated this tiny coastal, village, employing up to 450 people in a sprawling factory where the water tower was taller than any building in town.
August 19, 1998

Focus on Environment: A New York City redeveloper and a Los Angeles-based engineering firm team to extract enviable profit margins from contaminated properties that their competitors won't touch.
August 10, 1998

Fifty-year-old entrepreneur Ronald Bruder should be beloved by environmentalists. Bruder has cleaned up 25 contaminated commercial sites, put the properties back on the tax rolls and earned enviable returns to boot.
April 20, 1998

There are plenty of developers trying to capitalize on turnaround opportunities by buying up weak centers and improving them. But not too many of those developers would have wanted anything to do with Huntsville West Plaza.
July 1995

With investors again snapping up commercial real estate, a few entrepreneurs hope to turn a profit on properties they figure no one wil want: toxic ones.
July 18, 1994

"People panic when they discover environmental contamination," says Ronald Bruder with a bit of glee. "Even banks won't foreclose."
May 23, 1994

After a 15-month leasing campaign a foundering 36-store retail strip at the heart of the East Eighth Street shopping corridor in Greenwich Village has been restored to financial health.
November 17, 1992

Gutsy real estate investors think the market may be near its nadir, so they're buying big.
January 21, 1991