By Ron DaParma Pittsburgh Post-Gazette • April 6, 2005 When Aaron Stauber first visited the Ewart Building on Liberty Avenue, he was afraid to go in. It was 1998, and the eight-story building had been vacant and boarded up for 20 years. Stauber, managing director of Rugby Realty Co. Inc., was looking at it as a potential purchase for…
By Ron DaParma Pittsburgh Tribune Review Business • July 24, 2008 New York investor Aaron Stauber will not allow a confrontation with union pickets outside one of his Downtown skyscrapers to spoil an extended stay here. “I’d cross out (Tuesday) night as a good night, but only one night out of 13 was bad,” said Stauber, president of Rugby…
By Sam Spatter Pittsburgh Tribune Review Business • February 8, 2008 Christine Goodis likes what she sees in a district she calls “the fastest-growing area” in Pittsburgh. That’s why, after spending 12 years at a location on Wood Street, Downtown, she moved Salon Christine, her beauty salon and spa, to the 900 block of Penn Avenue in the city’s…
