Bloomingdale resident Buwa Binitie - named one of the Washington Business Journal 2015 Minority Business Leader Award winners

Sorry for the tardy post here at the blog.

The Washington Business Journal announced a week or two ago its list of winners in its 2015 Minority Business Leader Awards.  One of the awardees is Bloomingdale resident Buwa Binitie.

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2015 Minority Business Leader Awards

Buwa Binitie (Video)

Managing principal, Dantes Partners LLC

Minority Business Leader Awards 2015

 SUBSCRIBER CONTENT: Feb 20, 2015, 6:00am EST UPDATED: Feb 20, 2015, 6:28am EST

Jeremy Beale

From an early age, Buwa Binitie understood the significance a home brings to a family.

Moving from Nigeria to the United States, he was raised to believe a home is more than a place you rest your head.

So given his niche in real estate, he has made it his life's work to establish healthy communities throughout distressed and low-income residencies of the District. He has done so as the managing principal at Dantes Partners, a real estate firm with a focus on urban neighborhood revitalization.

He has led the company in securing more than $300 million in public and private financing to create or preserve more than 1,000 affordable and workforce housing units in the city. And he's primarily responsible for the New Communities Initiative to redevelop four public housing communities — Barry Farm, Park Morton, Northwest One and Lincoln Heights.

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