Sue Steinwall started renovating old homes 25 years ago. Always interested in history, she began with a small bungalow built in the 1910s and moved up to a larger home built in 1884 in St. Paul, which had been used in 1930 by the Pioneer Press as a demonstration house for a series of articles about renovating old houses.
Maintaining and preserving older homes and neighborhoods is important to Sue, a theme that recurs in her work as a real estate and environmental attorney.
She is committed to reuse, restoration and “doing it yourself” whenever possible. She enjoys fixing up what may have been neglected. While Sue doesn’t insist on exact historic replication in her home, she researches for context. She enjoys the creative components of both her work and home restoration, and appreciates that there are many ways to fix things. She is patiently persistent.
In creatively addressing environmental problems or commercial real estate issues, Sue helps her clients decide the best way to reach their goals. Putting together projects to clean up and revitalize contaminated sites holds a fascination for her similar to renovating homes. Sue enjoys bringing real estate back to good use in both her professional and her personal pursuits.