Growing up, Louis Baugier was influenced by his father’s business, which was not real estate, per se, though it was certainly in dirt.
Hs dad, Patrick, grew up in a grape-growing family in French wine country. The elder Baugier came to the New York in 1988 to establish MetroWine, an American distribution hub for his family’s centuries-old Bordeaux. That entrepreneurial spirit inspired the younger Baugier to strike out on his own, too.