Sabrina Waytes was born and raised in Painesville, and relished the chance to recently become Western Reserve Community Development Corp.’s new executive director.
The nonprofit private company based in Painesville has two primary missions — to construct new homes and to rehabilitate and repair others.
Waytes has more than 15 years of experience in banking and financial services, mostly community development.
She formerly was a real estate asset manager of affordable housing developments in Ohio and throughout the South. During that time, Waytes noticed that many of the developments that were built needed a nicer touch.
When she was laid off from that job and because of a strong desire to build better housing, she decided to become an interior design student at Cuyahoga Community College. She spent the last three years there until accepting the job with WRCD in February.
