TMG Partners, a Bay Area mixed-use property developer, will be opening a Silicon Valley office and expanding the team with industry veteran Benjamin Kochalski, formerly of the John Buck Company, as principal and director of JBC West, leading management of the San Francisco–headquartered firm’s growing South Bay portfolio.
“TMG Partners has been active for over 35 years with more than 70 development projects in the Bay Area Region and including a strong footprint in the South Bay, notably with our 1 million-square-foot Platform 16 office development near Diridon Station in Downtown San Jose in a venture with Boston Properties,” said TMG Partners’ chairman and CEO Michael Covarrubias. “Ben’s combination of market knowledge, development strategy and entrepreneurial aptitude is the precise addition to our team. We welcome him aboard.”
Since Kochalski opened the San Francisco office of the John Buck Company in 2011, he managed and grew it while leading high-
