Wendy Berger, CEO and co-founder of WBS Equities, LLC, a Chicago-based development company servicing the food industry, jokes that she stands on the side of the road holding a saying "will do real estate for food".
Jokes aside, she is a leading expert in carrying out ground-up construction, renovation and sale leasebacks for food manufacturers and food distributors — a business she got into "through a strange twist of very fortunate events" that began when a private-equity contact asked her to build a pizza manufacturing facility.
Berger features in a new video interview series Women in Net Lease with B+E's Camille Renshaw and Katherine Wadleigh-White, in which she discusses the rewards of a career, albeit accidental, in net lease.
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