About RAR Associates

Urban & Waterfront Emphasis

RAR Associates a Building/Developing Firm, is home-based in the town of North Beach in Calvert County, MD. Our emphasis on urban and waterfront development is apparent when one observes our many successful and highly acclaimed revitalization efforts.

Imagination and creativity are our guides to finding solutions unique to urban and waterfront properties – whether through rehabilitation or new construction or a combination of both. Our approach is to modify the total environment thereby creating pleasant working and living spaces inside and outside the unit.

Organized since 1976, RAR Associates has compiled a list of accomplishments which demonstrates our comprehensive planning and development of Inner City Neighborhoods and Waterfront Properties. Whether it’s a row of houses suffering from the effects of decay and neglect, a mixed use city block or a beautiful waterfront home, RAR Associates welcomes the challenge to stimulate new urban and waterfront life.

Ron Russo, President & General Manager

A native of Providence, Rhode Island, Ron resides with his wife in Prince Frederick, Maryland. He obtained a Civil Engineering degree from the University of Rhode Island and a Masters in Business Administration majoring in Real Estate Finance from the American University.

Past and present affiliations include:

• American Society of Civil Engineers
• American Society of Planning Officials
• Marlboro Chamber of Commerce
• Marlboro Civic Associations
• National Association of Housing & Redevelopment Officials
• Naval Reserve Association, Retired Commander
• Prince George’s County Human Relations Commission, past Vice-Chairman
• Prince George’s County Sons of Italy, Past President
• Prince George’s County Cable Television Commission-Past Chairman
• Washington, D.C., Lido Civic Club, Past President

Work experience prior to establishing RAR Associates during the fall of 1976 include two years with the Department of Housing and Urban Development as a Management Engineer, two years with the Boston Redevelopment Authority as a Development Officer and ten years employment with the Washington D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development holding the positions of Director of Rehabilitation and Director of Engineering where he personally directed the design and construction of well over $75 million in development activity.

Operating continuously since 1976, RAR is 38 years in the making.

When we mean to build,
We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
And when we see the figure of the house,
Then must we rate the cost of the erection;
Which if we find outweighs ability,
What do we then but draw anew the model
In fewer offices, or at last desist
To build at all?

Henry IV Pt. II. Act 1 – Shakespeare