Main Street Commercial Real Estate offers property owners, business and investors experience and comprehensive real estate solutions. We professionally represent our clients objectives and pursue their best interests throughout the transaction process.
Principal and Broker, James Macdonell, was a director of real estate for an international corporate real estate firm and acted as account manager for fortune 50 company Charles Schwab Company. James was the representative broker for the First Union / Wacovia / Money Store acquisition of over 200,000 square feet of commercial space as they merged their facilities corporate headquarters, call centers, and supporting office and warehouse facilities. He has also represented FedEx-Kinko's, Smart & Final Stores, The Diamond Center, Sutter Hospitals, Malcolm Pernie Engineers, Computer Sciences, First Union Bank and now many local Sierra Nevada business.
Services offered include: leasing & sales, property search, lease negotiation, lease re-negotiation (for more efficient economic terms), relocation of your facility, and investment advisory services.
Consulting services include property tax reduction, assisting with the disposal of unproductive commercial property or space and lowering property and occupancy costs of commercial properties for property owners and commercial tenants.
...when experience matters.
James is the broker and principal of Main-Street Commercial Real Estate.As a Tahoe resident (James grew up in Tahoe City) he provides Commercial Real Estate Brokerage services to business and property owners in the Tahoe, Truckee, and Sierra Nevada communities. He also advises and has an established clientelle throughout California and the United States.
James has practiced commercial real estate for over twenty years. He has worked with international corporate real estate advisory and commercial brokerage firms including: Trammell Crow Company and United Systems Integrators/Johnson Controls. He was the director of real estate for an international corporate real estate firm and account manager/broker of real estate for fortune 50 firm Charles Schwab Company, handling acquisitions of branch offices and call centers throughout the United States, including Latin American and Chinese branch offices.
As a broker, he has represented tenants, investors, institutional property portfolios, publicly traded companies, regional business, small business, corporate property owners, individual property owners and fortune 500 firms. He provides advisory services to clients with complex real estate matters. He also 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, Agex.com, Kimco Realty Trust, UBS Payne-Webber Real Estate Trust, and many local businesses.
CURICULUM VITA:
James has a degree in International Business & Commerce with additional degree studies in Humanities/European History -and- Spanish Language study from San DiegoStateUniversity, along with Business Real Estate studies at UCLA. He studied Latinamerican culture and Spanish language emersion overseas at Jesuit operated San Ignacio de Loyola School located in NorthernPeru for a year. He has traveled extensively throughout Europe and South America. He attended JesuitCollege Prep School in Sacramento. He was elected national honorary for San Diego State University Housing system, representing the University at National symposiums as a student housing delegate.
James volunteered throughout his college years, working as a resident advisor in the University housing system and a student counselor. His summers were spent volunteering with inner city children, as a counsellor and rock climbing instructor at a facility in Malibu. 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, runner, sailor, tri-athlete, snowboarder 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).
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. 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.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS & ASSOCIATIONS (past/present):
-Member North Lake Tahoe and Truckee Chambers of Commerce. -Member Placer Bar Association. -International Council of Shopping Centers . -Principal of Morrison Alexander www.MorrisonForensic.com property tax consulting and advisory for legal and business. -Principal of www.CutPropTax.com property tax reduction advisory for residential properties. -Principal of Park Corporate www.ParkCorporate.com corporate real estate 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 of America. Achieve eagle scout at age 12.
