Recent Successes - Real Estate 

Shulman Rogers congratulates its client, AHC, Inc., on completing renovation of its Gates of Ballston property, one of Arlington's largest communities of affordable housing.  The $107 million acquisition and renovation project includes 45 totally renovated buildings with 464 units.  A brand new 10,000 square foot community center will break ground soon.

Howard Ross has acted as real estate, finance and corporate counsel to AHC for more than seven years.  Mr. Ross also serves a a member of Montgomery County's Affordable Housing Task Force.

William C. Davis, III, successfully litigates a landmark case establishing a new law in home improvement litigation.

In a case that establishes new law, the Court of Appeals of Maryland ruled in Fosler v. Panoramic Design, Ltd., 376 Md. 118, 829 A.2d 271 (2003), that in determining whether a construction manager was performing a "home improvement" as defined by the statute, the jurisdiction of the Maryland Home Improvement Commission takes priority in adjudicating such disputes. Under the Court’s ruling in Fosler, parties must now exhaust their administrative remedies before the Commission prior to seeking relief in the courts in cases where the issue of whether a home improvement has been performed is in dispute. This is a dramatic shift from the pre-Fosler law, under which the jurisdiction of the Commission was concurrent with that of the courts, and parties were not required to exhaust their administrative remedies before the Commission prior to seeking relief in court.