Meet The Team
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Tyson Tucker serves as a Managing Director in Coldwell Banker Grass Roots Realty’s Commercial Division (CBGRR). Mr. Tucker is consistently one of the top producing commercial agents in the region. Mr. Tucker has 13 years of experience in all facets of commercial real estate on both the principal and brokerage side of the business. He has been integrally involved in excess of $1B of commercial real estate transactions since 2006.
Most recently, Mr. Tucker served as the Director of Acquisitions at Berkeley Partners (www.berkeleypartners.com), a premier real estate fund manager for institutional investors which owns and operates over 5M SF of multi-tenant industrial real estate located across the country and has over $500M in assets under management. While at Berkeley, Tyson was directly responsible for managing a transactions team of 15 people, including analysts/associates, lease administration, transactions management, and in-house counsel. During his 18-month tenure, Tucker was directly responsible for over $150M in real estate acquisitions across the country. Tucker also led the firms disposition efforts where he directly marketed and sold properties in 8 different states totaling $130M. Mr. Tucker’s other responsibilities included relationship management with the largest and most well-known brokers/owners/operators of commercial real estate. These relationships are invaluable and result in maximum exposure for all of Tucker’s listings and a unique ability to find and unlock off-market opportunities for his clients.
Prior to originally joining CBGRR in 2013, Tucker served as an Associate in the investment sales department at Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, NYSE: (HF) in San Francisco where he was responsible for underwriting investment opportunities, packaging offering memorandum, new business development, and coordinating and managing the due diligence/sales process for large, institutional real estate sales and equity/debt placement. In his tenure at HFF, Tyson played a critical role on a team which completed $110M in institutional commercial real estate sales representing some of the largest and most reputable private equity real estate firms in the nation.
Prior to his time at HFF, Tyson served as an Associate for Industry Capital, a private equity real estate firm based in San Francisco which focuses on multi-tenant industrial acquisitions. While at Industry Capital, Tyson was directly involved in the purchase and management of $100M of multi-tenant industrial and retail assets located throughout the United States. His primary role was to source, underwrite, and perform due diligence on new acquisitions as well as assist in the overall asset management/leasing of the portfolio. Tyson also played an essential role in the firm’s fundraising efforts which ultimately led to a major commitment by one of the largest public pension funds in the United States.
Tyson holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Davis, where he graduated Cum Laude with a departmental citation from the College of Letters & Sciences.
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Jon Blinder is a Managing Director of Coldwell Banker Grass Roots Realty’s Commercial Division (CBGRR). Jon is a Commercial Real Estate Specialist with over 36 years of industry experience in leasing, strategic commercial acquisitions, land development and residential real estate. He joined CBGRR’s Commercial Division in 2012 and has managed over $125 million is sales and leasing during his tenure at CBGRR.
The voters who cast ballots at the Union newspaper have selected CBGRR as the Best Commercial Real Estate Company in 9 of the past 11 years; and, we regularly capture upwards of 50% of the sales in any given year since 2013.
Market dominance and professional awards are the direct result of Jon’s real measure of success his clients trust in him with their ongoing business. A repeat client in the final stages of a third commercial building transaction stated “Jon exceeded my expectations! It seemed that we faced insurmountable obstacles. He brought us back to the table, and presented real solutions that got the deal completed to the satisfaction of all parties” Jon combines in-depth market knowledge with very strong client advocacy and a high level of integrity that is foremost in his practice. Jon believes “there is no greater honor of affirmation than to have the opportunity to represent the same client over and over again, it confirms a level of trust that has been established”.
Jon has lived and worked in Nevada County since 1988 and has served in a wide range of roles that have benefited the community. He was a founding member of the Center For The Arts (www.cfta.orf) and the Nevada County Arts Council (www.nevadacountyarts.org) . In 2001-02 Jon purchased, renovated and then donated the Center For The Arts facility to that organization. He served as President of the Board from 2000-2008. He is currently the President of the Board of the Nevada County Arts Council and has been since 2011. Jon represents the Arts Community at the Nevada County Economic Resource Council (NCERC) and has done so since 2016. Jon also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Hospice of the Foothills and has done so since 2019. He has been a leader in the Arts Community of Nevada County for over 25 years.
Prior to coming to Nevada County in 1988, he owned and managed the Washington Street Café and Catering, a wine bar in TriBeCa (New York City), which also grew to be the second largest private catering company in New York City.
Jon holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Washington University in St Louis (class of 1975) and is a member of the California Association of Realtors. When out of the office, Jon is an avid golfer and a devoted father and grandfather.
