James ‘JT’ Macdonell is a principal with the firm of Park Capital Properties and Main-Street commercial real estate brokerages.Having attended Tahoe-Lake Elementary in Tahoe City as a kid, as a Tahoe resident, he provides Commercial Real Estate Brokerage services to business and property owners in the Tahoe-Sierra communities as well as an established client-base throughout California and the United States.
JT has practiced in the field of commercial real estate for over eighteen years. He has worked with international corporate real estate advisory and commercial brokerage firms including: Trammell Crow Company, United Systems Integrators & Johnson Controls. As a broker, he has represented investors, institutional property portfolios, publicly traded companies, regional business, small business, corporate property owners, individual property owners and fortune 500 firms. He advises legal clients with complex real estate matters and lectures on various business and commercial real estate topics.
His clientele has included Charles Schwab, Wacovia Bank, The Money Store, FedEx Kinko's, Staples Office Stores, Rite Aid Stores, Sutter Hospitals, Computer Sciences.
JT has degrees in International Business, Humanities, and Business-Spanish from San DiegoStateUniversity and Business Real Estate Studies at UCLA. He spent a few years studying International Business at the Universidad de Piura located in Lima, Peru. He attended JesuitHigh School in Sacramento. He shares his time between work and charitable causes: animal shelters, programs for the homeless, and mentoring 'at-risk' kids. He is an avid mountain biker, tri-athlete and outdoorsman.
Experience
United Systems Integrators Corporate Real Estate Advisors --advised publicly traded and fortune 500 firms with their commercial real estate portfolios. --implemented cost savings through creative strategies and effective negotiations. --located and negotiated office facilities for a portfolio of nationwide corporations in over thirty states. --established relationships with national institutional office building owners, --established training for clients' internal commercial real estate facilities management.
Park Capital Properties Inc. --advised publicly traded and private firms with commercial real estate and office facility acquisition, disposition and leasing strategies. --advised owners of lodging properties (full-service & limited). Trammell Crow Company --responsible for commercial leasing of new construction developments. --among the largest real estate companies in the world. --recognized as top regional producer.
Parker Stevenson Commercial Real Estate --recognized as a company top producer. --awarded with over ten awards for excellence. --specialized in shopping centers, land and retail properties brokerage, negotiations, leasing, sales, acquisitions and marketing. --represented shopping center buyers and sellers, developers and owners.
Accomplishments & Associations:
-Member Truckee Chamber of Commerce -Member Placer Bar Association -International Council of Shopping Centers -Principal of www.MorrisonForensic.com consulting and advisory for legal and business. -Principal of www.CutPropTax.com property tax reduction advisory. -Association of Commercial Real Estate commercial real estate broker of the year nomination (Northern California) -contributing writer & analyst for Western Real Estate News Magazine -chosen as national University honorary -eagle scout association
-Member Truckee Chamber of Commerce -Member Placer Bar Association -Member Tahoe-Sierra Board of Realtors -Licensed California Real Estate Brokerage -Licensed by the California Department of Corporations