James Tucker

About James Tucker

Executive focused on leveraging management, real estate, and legal skills to drive value for dynamic corporate strategies.Specialties: Real estate, negotiations, managing talent, leading teams, and improving process.

Experience

1. Senior Director of Real Estate

   Target

   Oct 2011 — Present · Minneapolis, MN, US

   Lead Target’s new and existing store real estate strategy in half the U.S.• Lead all significant existing store strategies nationwide• Lead Target’s nationwide domestic lease portfolio strategy (~450 stores), including tracking lease renewals, expirations, relocation opportunities, and rent increases• Lead Real Estate’s Data & Technology group, ensuring that Real Estate’s technology is best-in-class, and ensuring that all material contractual terms are abstracted in reportable form for easy access and decision-making• Create capital forecasts and manage budgets for nationwide Real Estate services, the sale of excess property, public incentives, and initiatives such as improving access, visibility, and signage, as well as due diligence spend prior to capital committee approval of new store deals• Represent Real Estate on the multi-pyramid team that recommends store closures, including coordinating broker opinions of value, financial evaluations, and legal reviews

Education

• University of Minnesota Law School

  Doctor of Law (J.D.), cum laude

• Carleton College

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History with significant study of economics

Skills

• Program Management
• Budgets
• Finance
• Property
• Real Estate Development
• Investments
• Entitlements
• Management
• Market Research
• Retail
• Strategy
• Shopping Centers
• Analysis
• Location Intelligence
• Relocation
• Facilities Management
• Leadership
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Negotiation
• Leases
• Construction
• Team Leadership
• Real Estate
• Disposition
• Dispositions