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n e w S m A k e r S Minding the stores Washington REit has hiREd paul WEinschEnk to tEnd its REtail By Ben Johnson A s a child in charlottesville, Va., crawling around residential construction sites, Paul Weinschenk remembers wanting to grow up to become an architect and build things. now 47, Weinschenk is ready to build retail real estate to a degree he could not have imagined back then. Washington Real Estate investment Trust, a REiT that buys and manages properties in the Washington, d.c., metro area, named him managing director and vice president of the retail division in February. WRiT's retail portfolio comprises 16 properties totaling some 2.4 million square feet in the aggregate. That childhood fascination with architec- ture led Weinschenk to complete a degree in architecture from the University of Virginia. But doubts began to rise. "Even as i was going through architecture school, i wasn't really convinced that was where i wanted to be long-term M ay 2 013 / SCT 279