Dixi Wang.
Dixi Wang, 28
Development analyst at Grosvenor Group
Not just anyone can leap from design to real estate finance, but Dixi Wang did.
The daughter of a developer in China, Wang grew up on construction sites. But, like her mother, who studied architecture, Wang was initially drawn to design, and attended the University of Georgia to study landscape architecture. Her first two jobs out of school were both with architectural firms, first in Houston and then in Philadelphia.
“Starting out, I liked design but, eventually, I realized that I loved the financial side of real estate,” she said.
In 2017, she enrolled at New York University to learn real estate finance and scored her current position last June. Today, she’s an analyst for the D.C. development team at Grosvenor Group, focusing on development and new opportunities.
“I am mostly focused on multifamily development,” said Wang, who has been lauded with such awards as the NextGen Rising Star by Connect National, the Urban Land Institute’s NEXT Leader and the ICSC’s John T. Riordan Professional Education Scholarship. “For instance, I am working on a new-construction, ground-up multifamily project in D.C.”
Wang says that she hopes to grow within her role and within her field.
“I love being able to apply my design and construction background to finance,” she said. “I come up with creative solutions on the financing side.”
Update: This incorrectly stated that Wang worked in New York City out of college, not Philadelphia; that her father was a developer in Texas and that she was working on an acquisition rather than a new development.
