https://www.wd-advisors.com/home daily 1.0 2025-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/6a85ce82-d787-42f9-85b5-3aeb642561d8/IMG_7549.JPG Home - Public-Private Advisory Services WD Advisors’ advisory strategy combines a strong background in economic development and public finance with a clear understanding on how to meet the goals of both private and public stakeholders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/1640989247289-UBC208Z6N2TZP7PD44YW/unsplash-image-3fPXt37X6UQ.jpg Home - Debt Placement Services WD Advisors makes use of the most aggressive and most competitive lenders available in today's marketplace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/5d1f2d25-d054-4ade-b2a1-a96e9a4ab497/AtlantaMorehouseCollegeAerial-1024x650.jpg Home - HBCU Capital Planning & Financing Advisory Services WD Advisors helps Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) turn their campus vision into reality. We guide HBCU leaders in identifying and prioritizing real estate projects, analyzing financial capacity, and securing the right mix of capital — from bank loans and CDFI funding to New Markets and Historic Tax Credits. Our goal is simple: equip HBCUs with the resources and strategies to build stronger campuses and stronger communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/77d71996-7b61-4f12-9a9e-57e5cfe6e382/IMG_8745.JPG Home “Access to capital for real estate projects in underserved areas is essential to community and economic development.” — Damien Wilson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/09764517-a1bb-4a40-ba5a-bda77d60fd20/IMG_8212.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/66f50fe3-bb0e-4bd5-bff1-b6c356894200/IMG_8213.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/3a59d727-0ca8-4451-8730-e834974e8cf0/IMG_8211.JPG Home https://www.wd-advisors.com/services daily 0.75 2025-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/1641931839067-P3YQ8EYZ2LG3R3DGQF47/unsplash-image-ivPzvPaeozU.jpg Services - We combine in-depth market expertise, integrity and a passion for our work to provide our clients with the ultimate customer experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/1641064533893-N5TQ1VFTOGUXXK3FTJ1M/The-Six-Most-Toxic-Small-Business-Loan-Myths-1.jpg Services https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/1641106365087-XIQXQUVC932OOESPC6MV/networking.jpg Services https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/1641106438110-M1UPWCIPIHKNGX8NUQNT/african-business-male-people-shaking-hands_1303-18516.jpg Services https://www.wd-advisors.com/about-us daily 0.75 2022-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/1639485309657-6VA3R0S3E1HQX89LVL7F/unsplash-image-BIeC4YK2MTA.jpg About Us - About Us WD Advisors is a national real estate capital advisory firm that specializes in structuring and arranging financing for commercial real estate transactions along with a focus on public/private partnerships. We combine in-depth market expertise, integrity and a passion for our work to provide our clients with the ultimate customer experience. In addition, WD Advisors leverages its economic development and capital markets expertise with a strong knowledge of commercial development and real estate finance to maximize results for clients. WD Advisors also has extensive direct equity investing expertise as well which allows us to analyze, underwrite, and understand capital stack structuring for commercial real estate transactions across all asset classes. We do not simply introduce our clients to a capital source, we provide extensive expertise and owner representation services in order to make sure our clients are receiving the optimal solutions to produce successful and feasible projects that will ultimately serve the communities the projects are located. https://www.wd-advisors.com/leadership daily 0.75 2025-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/6fd65e74-d0b2-4570-a51c-7e654bcddb08/IMG_8746.JPG Leadership - Damien Wilson, President Damien is an experienced commercial real estate and structured finance professional with more than 20 years of experience in community development financing, public-private partnership financing, and commercial real estate development advisory with a proven track record of executing complicated structured finance transactions. Prior to starting WD Advisors, Damien was co-founder and Partner with Monge Capital Advisors (“MCA”). While with MCA, Damien was responsible for originating, underwriting, and providing advisory services for commercial real estate projects, including a niche focus on New Markets Tax Credit (“NMTC”) financing. While with MCA, Damien and the MCA team executed over $1 billion of complex tax credit transactions with public-private partnership financing. Damien also serves as Head of HBCU Brilliance Initiative, Lending for Reinvestment Fund, a mission-driven nonprofit organization. In this role, he is primarily responsible for providing technical and financial support to position HBCUs to make critical investments in their facilities, financial stability, and long-term growth to better serve their institutional missions. Damien graduated from the Wharton School with a Master of Business Administration in Real Estate and Entrepreneurial Management. He also received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Morehouse College. https://www.wd-advisors.com/046f6b78-2233-4c3e-a867-dda92954fa8c daily 0.75 2022-01-25 https://www.wd-advisors.com/commercial daily 0.75 2021-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/0552c661-e505-405e-9df4-c4798e9cec7c/IMG_8168.jpg Commercial - Audible Innovation Cathedral Catalytic, historic adaptive re-use of church into world headquarters for Audible. Part of state and city efforts to retain and expand Audible’s presence and dedication in Newark for continued revitilzation of the City and within targeted transit HUB revitalization area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/a1f0e562-343d-48a2-9f4e-a212b8670ad9/IMG_8169.JPG Commercial - Studio Museum In Harlem Construction of a LEED Silver Certified, state of the arts and cultural institution for the premier museum in NYC for artist of African descent. https://www.wd-advisors.com/education daily 0.75 2021-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/a10a91bc-7b2f-4657-bbbd-7c50729daa3e/IMG_8170.JPG Education - Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico NMTC financing was used to provide reasonable working/operational capital for BGCPR post Hurricane Maria to stabilize and expand services at their 12 different clubhouse locations throughout the island. https://www.wd-advisors.com/healthcare daily 0.75 2022-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/2dca8a2d-8084-4aba-8aa8-703e3e57764b/IMG_8172.JPG Healthcare - Dr. Betty Shabazz Health Center Development of a new, two-story extension Federally Qualified Health Center providing services in adult and pediatric primary care, prenatal and post-partum care, sexual health and family planning, behavioral health therapy, psychiatric medication management, dentistry, podiatry, health education, and social services to the residents. https://www.wd-advisors.com/retail daily 0.75 2022-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/3b47170e-6500-42b8-84ee-b000a758db33/images.png Retail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/416723e3-3cea-4889-a378-ff75fb142feb/IMG_8171.JPG Retail Yard 56 – Retail Phase is a commercial component of a large-scale community masterplan including medical, hospitality and up to 370 units of workforce housing. The minority firm-lead project is a catalytic remediation of an Opportunity Zone, brownfield site which will provide significant services to historically under-retailed and served community. Tenants include Streets Market, LA Fitness, Chipotle, and local retailers. https://www.wd-advisors.com/debt-placement-services daily 0.75 2022-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/1641932875971-Q8K67C05E6C5WHW4VOYV/unsplash-image-X4K1DvQlgPQ.jpg Debt Placement Services - DEBT PLACEMENT SERVICES WD Advisors makes use of the most aggressive and most competitive lenders available in today's marketplace. We are constantly attuned to the forces within lending institutions that create the temporary pricing disparities. Because of the breadth and quality of our lending relationships, WD Advisors has consistently identified these disparities and converted them into advantageous borrowing opportunities for our clients. To ensure we develop the best possible capital structuring plan, WD Advisors process begins with an in-depth study of your strategic objectives. https://www.wd-advisors.com/public-private-advisory-services daily 0.75 2022-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/1641933425932-7KALZDDKI11N6A758P4P/unsplash-image-BIeC4YK2MTA.jpg Public-Private Advisory Services - PUBLIC-PRIVATE ADVISORY SERVICES In addition to traditional debt, WD Advisors will examine other financing options, in particular, public-private financing. Over the years, WD Advisors has established relationships with federal, state, and local municipalities to understand their needs and the type of funds, subsidies, grants, etc. that they make available to developers and companies to encourage ongoing economic development. We work to pair these financing tools with private sources of capital to create financing products that can provide developers and companies with affordable forms of capital in order to develop projects and create feasible returns. WD Advisors’ advisory strategy combines a strong background in economic development and public finance with a clear understanding on how to meet the goals of both private and public stakeholders. Once interests are aligned, the public financing process should be a necessary catalytic enhancement and not a necessary evil for borrowers. WD Advisors focuses on providing public, private, and public-private financing within the best investment structure to maximize economic and social impacts. WD Advisors offers public financing and real estate solutions for project feasibility while meeting the public sector’s economic development goals. https://www.wd-advisors.com/hbcu-capital-planning-and-financing-advisory daily 0.75 2025-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b7679024114f3ede438b7a/e746a8a1-aee5-4941-a5fd-d83308c6ee13/JCSU-campus-aerial-courtesy.jpg HBCU Capital Planning & Financing Advisory - HBCU CAPITAL PLANNING & FINANCING ADVISORY WD Advisors offers specialized advisory services to Historically Black Colleges and Universities to ensure their campus infrastructure plans are both strategic and financially feasible. Our services include: Master Planning: Identifying campus needs and creating a phased roadmap for priority real estate projects. Financial Analysis: Reviewing audited financials to determine borrowing capacity and fiscal readiness. Financing Procurement: Sourcing and structuring capital from diverse sources, including: Traditional bank financing CDFI and mission-driven lending Structured financing such as New Markets Tax Credits (NMTCs) and Historic Tax Credits (HTCs) With a proven track record in complex financing, WD Advisors ensures HBCUs can align their vision with actionable, fundable plans that deliver long-term institutional and community impact. https://www.wd-advisors.com/coming-soon daily 0.75 2022-01-11