Leder Construction
Rachelle Kun
Our custom home building process is based on seamlessly integrating the client, the home builder, the interior designer, and construction trade partners to create a streamlined experience four our clients. We build new homes with safety, constant communication, and quality at top-of-mind.
Geoff Leder's practice includes representing a variety of corporate, individual and non-profit clients in all aspects of the development, disposition, acquisition, leasing, finance and construction of commercial real estate. Geoff has assisted clients with the development of residential, retail, commercial, and mixed-use properties and has helped attract and utilize various economic development incentives for those projects. In addition, Geoff has significant experience advising clients in the structuring, negotiating and closing of tax credit financing transactions, especially federal and state new markets tax credit, historic tax credit, transformational mixed-use credit, and opportunity zone financing. His practice also involves representing lenders, other lien holders and receivers in various foreclosure related matters, and other creditors' rights and distressed assets issues.
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Mr. William Leder, a Principal with the transportation consulting firm of Lea+Elliott, possesses a 29-year career in the planning and design of airports. He holds a baccalaureate degree in civil engineering from Michigan Tech and went on to attain a master's in transportation systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970.
He has been active in the Air Transport Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers since 1987 and is the author of several published papers on airport landside planning and design. In addition to being Principal-in-Charge of a team of Lea+Elliott engineers and managing several large airport and transit projects, Bill is the regional director in charge of Lea+Elliot's California office, which he opened in 1995. He is an Executive Vice-President and serves on the Board of Directors of Lea+Elliot, Inc., an employee-owned firm of 80 persons.
Before joining Lea+Elliott, Bill was Deputy Executive Director of the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, where he directed planning, design, and construction of public works improvements with a capital budget of $200 million per year. As Deputy Executive Director, he managed the administrative and fiscal aspects of the public agency with 1,100 employees. Bill and his wife, Jerri Gray, reside in Walnut Creek, California.
Andrew Leder is a Long Island attorney with over 25 years of experience representing accident victims. Our firm represents clients who have been injured through the negligence and carelessness of others, including those who have been involved in accidents or who are victims of medical malpractice. We have extensive experience in cases involving medical malpractice, negligence, car accidents, bus accidents, trip and fall cases, construction accident cases, and professional liability matters. We have experience representing plaintiffs, physicians, hospitals, and national retailers in hundreds of lawsuits.
Easter Lake Park in southeast Des Moines draws 1.3 million visitors annually, making it Polk County Conservation Board's busiest park. And with more than 370,000 people with disabilities and 240,000 veterans living in Iowa, Athene North Shore Recreation Area, a project estimated at $8.1 million, will give more community members with special needs an opportunity to make use of outdoor recreation space in the county.
Schmidt, of West Des Moines, is an avid hand cyclist and kayaker who is living with cerebral palsy. He doesn't come to Easter Lake often but says the park's planned features, including accessible equipment, will change that.
Survey respondents "really felt like our community really needed a park that didn't just have one accessible swing or just have one accessible dock," said the board's community outreach supervisor Jessica Lown. "They wanted a place that was fully accessible for people to recreate and near the water."
The waterfront property has already come a long way, Lown said. In 2018, crews dredged 678,000 cubic yards of sediment from Easter Lake and stabilized 22,700 linear feet of shoreline, according to conservation board officials. An in-lake silt basin was installed under the pedestrian bridge that captures sediment from Yeader Creek before reaching the main body of the lake, making it now one of Iowa's cleanest lakes.
Some of the planned amenities will include an accessible pontoon boat and canoe/kayak launch and a zero-entry ramp to provide easier access to the water; large beach mats to serve as accessible walkways over sand; extra-wide paths for people in wheelchairs and walkers; and adaptive and accessible equipment for rent such as sand wheelchairs, kayaks and rowing equipment.
It's hard for Owen to cross grassy fields with a walker or wheelchair to get down to a boat, John Leder said, so amenities like an accessible boat launch and a zero-entry ramp to the water will make the lake more enjoyable.
Crews will break ground on the site, starting with the demolition of existing structures, on Nov. 1, Lown said. Crews will take a break over winter and start back up on earthwork and construction next spring. The project is expected to be completed in the spring of 2024. The address of the future Athene North Shore Recreation Area is 2816 Shoreline Road, Des Moines, IA 50320.
Lown says through the project, the universal design team is developing a process-driven checklist that functions as a guidepost for architects and designers to develop accessible spaces. The goal is to use the checklist to drive future work across Polk County, Lown says, though the hope is that other park systems across the country use it as a model as well.
"There are hundreds and thousands of families who have a member of their family who is living with a disability of some way shape or form and they need to know that we want them to embrace and love and recreate and be part of nature just as anyone else can," she said.
But these days, the temple complex is alive with its own dust and clamor. Construction workers are toiling to put up new buildings and renovate old ones, part of a multi-year capital project that has restored the polish to the once-neglected sanctuary building. The religious school is full, and a new elementary day school is growing with each school year.
If successful, the project will be not only a stunning rebirth for a complex that once seemed at risk of moldering into obscurity, but a large and expensive commitment to Jewish presence in the type of diverse urban neighborhood that the American Jewish community once seemed on the verge of abandoning.
That commitment to the urban core was, at one point, in serious doubt. When Steven Leder took over as senior rabbi in 2003, the temple was large and prosperous, with not only the original temple complex but a gleaming new full-block campus 10 miles away in wealthier west Los Angeles, a pair of camps and a conference center in the Malibu hills. The membership was more than 2,000 families.
However, there were festering problems at its original home. The synagogue building was deteriorating from years of neglect, and the size of the kindergarten class at the accompanying east side religious school was zero. Synagogue leaders debated whether it was time to sell the building.
It was a plan that would require the synagogue to buy up the rest of its city block and embark on a massive fundraising campaign, sustained through the Great Recession that has raised $126 million toward an apparently unprecedented total estimated at $180 million to $190 million.
The temple is in the midst of building a four-story garage that will house parking for 450 cars and a full-sized playing field on the roof. On the ground floor will be the new Karsh Family Social Service Center.
The parking garage, field and school buildings are expected to open in September, and the social service center early next year. Plans are still being developed for the final construction phase, a five-story building that will likely include a banquet hall, cafe, offices and only the second non-Orthodox mikvah in Los Angeles.
In 1910, Daniel Rhodes Hanna, a wealthy industrialist and son of legendary political kingmaker Marcus Hanna, bought the Cleveland Leader, an historic, but struggling, daily newspaper. The Leader's offices were at the time located in a small two-story building on the south side of Superior Avenue, just west of that street's intersection with East Sixth Street. Directly across Superior, a massive five-story building was slowly going up. Built in two phases, and stretching all the way from Superior Avenue to Rockwell Avenue, it was the new home of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the city's leading morning newspaper.
Over the next three years, "Dan" Hanna would invest heavily in the newspaper industry in an attempt to increase the circulation of the Leader and make it, as it had once been in the nineteenth century, a viable competitor of the Plain Dealer. In 1912, he purchased the Cleveland News, giving him control of an afternoon, as well as a morning, daily. Then, from 1913 to 1914, he engaged in a nasty and costly circulation war with the Plain Dealer. And finally in 1913, he tore down the Leader's two-story building and replaced it with an elegant, state-of-the-art 14-story building, which not only dwarfed the new Plain Dealer building across the street, but became the largest office building erected in Cleveland to date.
Despite the magnitude of Hanna's efforts, and the long shadow which the new Leader-News Building cast--literally--on its competitor across the street, the Cleveland Leader continued to struggle in the newspaper industry and, in 1917, it went out of business. But, though the newspaper itself disappeared from the city, the building Hanna erected did not. Later renamed "The Leader Building," it has now stood on the corner of East Sixth and Superior for more than a century, and, though no longer downtown Cleveland's largest office building, it remains one of its most elegant and historic.
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