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Dean Taitz

Founder of the Ruddell Group, a Birmingham, AL-based industrial real estate investment and development firm, leading the Rocky Mount Industrial Village project in North Carolina.

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PODCASTS

Sep 4, 2026

GT Podcast – Community Connection Series – Episode 18 – Rocky Mount Industrial Village

Sep 4 · 19m

Eric KleinsorgeHOST

2:48

I'd like you to paint a little picture about your company, how you started, who do you help?

Dean TaitzGUEST

2:54

So I started out in a regular aspect in that I was just a real estate investment shop.

Dean TaitzGUEST

3:01

And COVID kind of happened.

Dean TaitzGUEST

3:03

And during COVID, all the deals kind of dried up.

Dean TaitzGUEST

3:06

So what I look for when I'm in real estate is how to develop an edge.

Dean TaitzGUEST

3:11

And at that time, there were a lot of bombers.

Dean TaitzGUEST

3:14

And for those of you that don't know, a bomber in my eyes is a building 250,000 square feet or more sitting vacant on the sides of all these kind of major interstates.

Eric KleinsorgeHOST

5:21

So I'd like to know a little bit about the story and kind of go in depth a little more about that approach.