Naturally, everyone likes good news and positive outcomes. If you're one of those, I'd suggest you skip this article. While there's nothing more I'd like to do than to sit down and provide some insightful words that would predict a speedy economic turnaround or offer a lighted beacon of hope, I can't.

For those of us who work in the real estate boutiques serving customers of environmentally tainted landholdings, we are more prone than others in the public realm to be genetically predisposed to seeing things as "the glass is half full." Nobody in our industry really wants to dwell on the negative, dark side possibility that this could be a prolonged and painful economic and financial shakeout, especially in the area of environmentally distressed property. ...

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