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Day in the life of: James Nelson

Cushman & Wakefield’s vice chair on jogging with his rescued mutts, eating unhip lunches and helping Paul Massey run for mayor

James Nelson (Credit: Larry Ford)
James Nelson (Credit: Larry Ford)

From the February issue:  James Nelson is a vice chair of Cushman & Wakefield, where he runs a 10-broker investment sales team and is marketing about $1 billion in New York City properties. His team handled $963.2 million in deals over the past two years, according to Cushman data. Nelson, 41, grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, and Bethesda, Maryland. He studied English at Colgate University in upstate New York.

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In 1998, fresh out of school, he joined Massey Knakal Realty Services. He was named a partner there in 2004 and is among the many Massey Knakal alumni working at Cushman after the 2014 merger. One of his biggest deals was Tishman Speyer’s $238 million purchase of the Hudson Spire site in Hudson Yards in 2014. He also brokered the sales of two large Brooklyn development sites at 263-277 South 5th Street and 9 Dekalb Avenue, both slated for new towers from Tavros Development Partners and JDS Development Group, respectively. [more]

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