651 Nicollet Mall - 7th & Nic

Tom Tracy is an Executive Director in our Investor Services group and leads our Minneapolis CBD agency leasing business. He focuses on marketing and repositioning office properties and building our agency leasing presence. Tom also uses his strong relationships and experience in the Twin Cities business community to deliver tenant advisory services.

Tom has spent his entire 28-year real estate career in the Twin Cities market and is regarded as an industry leader.

Tom joined Cushman & Wakefield in 1997. Of note is his leasing success at the 1.7 million sf Normandale Lake Office Park, which includes large and complicated transactions with many of the world’s leading companies, such as Microsoft, Willis Towers Watson, Oracle, Tata Consulting, Emerson Corporation, Aon, Mercer, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Activision, and Prime Therapeutics. Tom’s leasing efforts spurred two new office developments at the park, totaling more than 500,000 sf, and two separate sales of the entire asset.

In 2015, Tom departed to The Excelsior Group (TEG), a Minneapolis-based private equity real estate firm, where he led the firm’s acquisitions and development business for three years. In this role, highlights include:

Worked with TEG’s equity partner, Goldman Sachs, to oversee the redevelopment and lease-up (with C&W as broker) of West End Office Park - the Twin Cities’ most successful Class A Creative redevelopment to date
Led TEG’s acquisition of Colonial Warehouse in the North Loop with partner GEM Realty Capital
Worked with TEG’s development partner, Ryan Companies, to design and secure entitlements for 10 West End, a 315,000 sf office development
Sold 195 acres of land in Eagan, Minnesota to the Minnesota Vikings for its new headquarters and practice facility
Established many new relationships with prominent institutional and private equity real estate investors across the US
In 2018, Tom rejoined Cushman & Wakefield in its Minneapolis CBD office bringing with him tremendous investment and development experience to complement his agency leasing expertise.  This offers his clients insight and understanding that is unique in the marketplace.

Katie Tufford is a Senior Director with Cushman & Wakefield who partners with private and institutional investors to increase asset value through creative and strategic marketing, in-depth lease analysis, and operational expertise.

After spending more than a decade working in property management at Class A downtown and suburban office high rises, Katie knows what truly drives tenants and landlords. She understands that a lease is more than just a legal agreement. For tenants it’s a means to grow their business through employee recruitment and retention, a driver for company culture and their biggest financial investment. For landlords, it’s a component of a complex investment strategy for which the most diligent oversight and fiduciary integrity is required. Katie’s expertise in all aspects of asset management, including marketing, leasing, budgeting, financial reporting, operations, construction, tenant relations, and human resources is unrivaled in the market and is instrumental to her clients’ execution of their investment strategy.

Harrison Rust joined Cushman & Wakefield in August of 2021 as a member of the MSP Asset Advisory team. He specializes in agency leasing and marketing office properties, as well as increasing our agency leasing presence in the Minneapolis CBD.

Harrison recently graduated from the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. He studied finance and real estate, graduating with a degree in financial management.

Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Harrison worked with Hempel Companies in Minneapolis as a Financial Intern. In this position he supported investor relations & services, financial reporting and property management with everyday jobs and tasks. Past roles include sales and financial positions with Xperience and USCryotherapy, now Cushman & Wakefield.