Reviving Tomorrow, Today
Providing highly profitable redevelopment opportunities and sustainable energy projects that allow contaminated and abandoned properties to be recycled back into the environment, creating a positive economic impact to society.
Our Vision
ERS Investors, Inc. has positioned itself as the premier comprehensive solutions-based real estate development company by remediating contamination, curing environmental liabilities, and returning environmentally distressed sites back to productive community assets with tangible economic value.
ERS begins with the end in mind when assessing opportunities. While future development is always a consideration, our focus is on today’s liabilities and the best solution for the elimination of that liability.
our analysis includes:
- Clean-Up Value – Our focus is on properties with at least $5M in clean-up. While acreage is a factor, estimated clean-up is a priority.
- Development Constraints – Our ability to self-perform allows us to complete a unique analysis of dismantling, demolition, remediation of environmental conditions and achieving regulatory compliance.
- Site Location – States where our team has relationships with regulators and knowledge of our superior work product whereby creating a harmonious transition and clean-up process.
- Municipality Interest – We look for sites that include a strong desire by the local municipality to clean-up the property. Vested, local interest allows for a team effort to remediate the site for potential reuse while being able to enhance the public image of the seller.
ERS Investors is a dynamic enterprise with a mission to breathe new life into aging industrial spaces. Our company specializes in the acquisition and transformation of old, disused industrial buildings into vibrant, modern spaces that meet the evolving needs of today’s businesses. With a keen eye for potential and a commitment to preserving historical charm, ERS Investors unlocks the hidden value in these properties, creating unique opportunities for growth and development.
ERS Investments (ERS) is a full service environmental liability acquisition development firm specializing in the remediation and the redevelopment of environmentally contaminated and distressed properties.
ERS’s approach to site closure and development is focused on our ability to control and mitigate the financial risks burdening the corporate bottom line. ERS initiates liability transfer with complex and effective management tools that protect sellers with a complete transfer of environmental liability thereby eliminating remediation obligations, environmental violations and potential litigation.
ERS’ unique ability to self-perform project work enables us to control complex site closures more efficiently and reach full closure at a quicker pace. The expertise and industry reputation of our executive team in operations, remediation, consulting and finance allows us to provide specialty insurance coverage written specifically for each client based on individual project needs and remains in place after closure for a duration that achieves client goals.
Driven by a vision of revitalization and sustainability, ERS Investors not only contributes to the rejuvenation of urban landscapes but also offers a fresh lease on life for communities. We understand the power of repurposing these structures, transforming them into hubs of innovation, commerce, and culture. With each project, we exemplify our dedication to both preservation and progress, ensuring a promising future for these once-forgotten spaces while providing businesses with functional, inspiring settings for their operations.
Our Approach
ERS is experienced and focused on sectors where we have established relationships and a proven track record. We approach opportunities with current owners in an open and transparent manner to establish dependable commitments. We perform extensive environmental due diligence, research current and future regulatory compliance guidelines, consult with state regulators, analyze remedial options and work with the local community to investigate potential end uses for all sites.
ERS Provides:
- Fixed capital solutions for unsettled concerns
- Immediate Walk-Away from environmental obligations
- Corporate indemnification
- Complete assumption of compliance requirements from regulatory agencies
- Total transfer of environmental liability and site cleanup
- Comprehensive insurance coverage from highly-rated carriers
- Immediate positive impact on the balance sheet
keys to our success
Our Advantage
Engineering consulting firms providing services to the power industry attempt to establish long term advisor relationships with utilities by providing as many services as possible.
Typically they offer pre-demolition surveys for asbestos and other regulated materials, environmental site assessments, structural evaluations, permit support, plans and specifications and procurement support. As the market evolved, utilities became high priority clients for these firms and they began providing project and construction management and support services including site management, health, safety and environmental inspections, project controls, community relations, and project documentation.
The message commonly delivered by consultant to secure a utility as a client is centered around a claimed understanding of the business together with an emphasis on serving the best interest of the utility. As closures become more commonplace, many consulting firms are attempting to act in an official decision making capacity for such important areas as when to buy, sell, hold or redevelop the site. Decisions that consultants are not in a position to make.
By their very nature, consultants and advisors create revenue by selling time. As much as they present aligned interests with utilities, the reality is consultants are financially motivated to extend projects not bring them to a timely closure.
Because ERS acquires sites through a process based on full transference of liabilities, we commit to clean up plans, timelines and site closure which begin immediately. Because we assume the liability, our interests are aligned with the utility creating a priority in the proper remediation of the contamination. Furthermore, because we strategize closely and openly with the utility, we identify not only their immediate needs but their long term concerns as well. ERS puts permanent development plans in place to prevent future parties from acquiring the site and pursuing plans that are not aligned with the utilities long term goals.
Contracting firms are typically asked to perform tasks by utilities once they have been decided on. Asset Recovery Firms are normally contractors who have “re-packaged” their approach in an effort to persuade utilities to allow them to assist in maximizing the value of a retiring asset.
Asset recovery firms typically remove and sell as much high value product as possible leaving behind unwanted debris, a site in a worse condition than it was receive and the creation of increased liability for the utility. From there the process of figuring out how to correct the situation has become a far larger task than it was originally. The industry today is littered with examples of sites that have been pilfered of material that has value to these asset recovery groups and then left in complete disarray for the sellers to try and fix at much higher costs.
ERS provides total site solutions for utilities and completely eliminates the potential for unethical practices. Our goals become the same as the utilities and because we self-perform a large portion of onsite work during the course of projects, we build insurance tools into each portion of a project to fully protect all parties. Our risk transfers and/or acquisitions are complete with time and work commitments and are completed in a transparent manner so sellers completely understand project from “cradle to grave.”
Development firms looking at power production sites to acquire for future development will analyze the potential based on long term site use and potential developments that can be achieved and maximize returns. Even firms that position themselves as liability acquisition companies will analyze real estate in traditional ways focusing on location and future uses. Sites that do not have strong future development possibilities will get ignored by traditional models simply because the end game will not be attractive.
Because ERS is a full service real estate developer, we are able to provide a wide range of solutions for distressed real estate based completely on the seller’s long term needs and concerns. ERS strategizes with the seller in order to identify the best solution possible, ranging from acquisition, future redevelopment plans and leaseback options to repurpose properties. Unlike traditional developers who make decisions based on the end use of a property and will not take action of spend capital until that end use is secured. ERS commits to timelines and costs in the beginning of the process to insure first and foremost that site closure is achieved and future plans are in line with the utilities goals and objectives for the site.
Connect With Us
Connect with ERS Investors to embark on a journey of investment and revitalization. We’re eager to hear your ideas, collaborate on opportunities, and discuss how we can work together to unlock the potential of old industrial buildings. Whether you’re an investor seeking lucrative projects, a property owner looking to sell, or a community member interested in our positive impact, our doors are always open. Reach out to us today to be a part of our mission to transform the past into a brighter future. Your connection with ERS Investors is just a message away, and we can’t wait to start building the next success story together.