Upon Lutz's acquisition in 2001, Bradford Plaza Shopping Center was an outdated 123,000 square foot neighborhood shopping center with excess land located in West Chester-an affluent suburb of Philadelphia. Beginning in 2004, Bradford Plaza began a transformation that included two years of negotiations and 12 months of a $15+ million construction project. These improvements are the primary result of a long-term lease with a new anchor tenant, Giant Food Stores, which replaced an antiquated 43,500 square foot grocery store with a state-of-the-art 69,650 square foot one-stop shopping experience.

In conjunction with Giant Food Stores opening, the smaller tenant storefront faces were renovated in an effort to cohesively blend with Giant's proto-type storefront and give the entire shopping center a fresh, contemporary look. After expanding the property to 142,000 sq. ft., renovating the facades and re-tenanting, Lutz sold the property in April 2007 to a fund advised by Urdang & Associates.

Lutz Real Estate Investments acquired a landmark apartment community and adjacent retail complex in Dearborn, MI. The property, Springwells Park, originally built by Henry and Edsel Ford, was one of the first planned urban developments in the nation consisting of apartments, townhouses, single-family homes and a retail center. Upon acquisition, the property was beginning to fall into disrepair due to neglect by prior ownership.

Lutz updated and restored the development to today's upscale standards, which included updating electrical systems, installing air conditioning, renovating the exterior facades and landscaping as well as refurbishing the Club House. For its efforts, Lutz received numerous accolades which required a delicate combination of construction expertise and imagination.