The New York Times Sunday real estate section recently published a story on developers giving back to the community-at-large through charitable efforts. Featured in the story was Andrew Abramson, president of the Value Cos. As the article states:
‘And a real estate developer, in response to his wife’s breast cancer, organized a major landlord effort to finance cancer research: At 250 properties with more than 70,000 units, $10 is being donated for each lease signed this month. “Sometimes, being in the real estate world means you can make really good things happen in the overall world,” said Andrew B. Abramson, the president of Value Companies, which is based in Clifton.
Mr. Abramson, whose wife, Lisa, had two bouts of cancer in seven years, set up the Cure Breast Cancer Foundation in 2007, after her recovery. It helps underwrite the work of Dr. Larry Norton, the medical director of the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, who is testing his theories on tumor growth and metastasis, and how to treat them.’
The complete story can be found on the NY Times website here.
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