[1] His parents' factory burned down and his father enlisted his son to lease some real estate he had accumulated and was serendipitously offered a job by the lessee who liked his gumption.
[1] He named the company Arthur Rubloff & Co.[1] His break came when he negotiated a complicated and large North Kansas City development project for investment-banking firm, Allen & Co.[1] Using the proceeds from that transaction and leveraging his relationship with Allen and Co, he developed – in the late 1940s – Evergreen Plaza, one of the first shopping malls.
[1] Sara Miller, later to win renown as a sculptor, was for many years an executive with Rubloff's firm.
Rubloff gifted the happy couple a set of Tiffany and Co., plates for their wedding present.
After Rubloff's death, Hilem married Florida real estate developer Lewis M.