Jon comes to Edge Realty Partners with over 15 years of retail real estate brokerage experience. Prior to joining Edge with Lea Clay Park, Paul Bartlett and John Beaney, Jon was an Assistant Director with Studley Retail Services where he focused on tenant representation in California, Arizona and Nevada. Jon specializes in representing national tenants with their initial rollout plans, strategically analyzing target markets and trade areas. He handled the initial rollout and expansion for SprintNextel, identifying all of their prospective locations and negotiating their transactions in Southern California and Nevada.
He was tasked with traveling to SprintNextel’s headquarters in Reston, Virginia, on a monthly basis to present deals to the real estate committee for approval. Jon also represents Tuesday Morning in five western states and has consistently been their most active broker for the last 10 years. Jon, along with Paul Bartlett, exclusively represents Famous Dave’s BBQ in select markets across the state of California and focuses on not just negotiating transactions, but seeing those transactions through all phases of development, from site acquisition to store openings. Some of Jon’s other current clients include Fresh Griller, American Laser Centers and West Marine. Jon began his real estate career with Paul Bartlett and Lea Clay Park at Staubach Retail Services in 1998 and has partnered with them since, which is a testament to the team’s belief in long-term, meaningful business relationships. Jon is a member of ICSC and graduated from UC Berkeley with B.A. in Business Management and City and Regional Planning.