F.C. The Tucker Company (or just F.C. Tucker ) is a real estate company based in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is the state's largest independent real estate company with sales revenue with 45 sales offices in Indiana and Kentucky (in 2010). The F.C. The company Tucker led many developments in downtown Indianapolis in the 1960s and 70s including Market Square Arena, Hilton Indianapolis, and Merchants Plaza. In 2002, the REAL Trends survey noted F.C. Tucker is the 12th largest regional brand in the United States.
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The company was founded in 1918 by Frederick Caldwell (F.C.) Tucker, Sr. In the early years, Tucker, Sr. operated the business as sole proprietorship, working in commercial and industrial real estate. In 1947, Tucker's son, Fred C. "Bud" Tucker, Jr., joined the company. The older Tucker died in 1958 and Tucker, Jr. bought the company with three other entrepreneurs: John A. Wallace, Robert E. Houk, and Edward Joseph Boleman.
The company started using its slogan, "Speak to Tucker," in the early 1960s. The slogan remains part of the company's marketing strategy to this day. Fred "Bud" Tucker was instrumental in fostering development in downtown Indianapolis in the 1960s and 70s. In 1967, he persuaded local investors to finance the Hilton hotel near the Circle Monument for $ 3.5 million. This is the first new hotel built in downtown Indianapolis in 40 years. One of the investors in this project is L.S. Ayres and Company, a department store based in Indianapolis. The Hilton Indianapolis was completed in 1971 and contains 430 rooms with a ballroom and meeting room covering 14,300 square meters.
F.C. Tucker and L.S. Ayres is also part of a group of investors who are trying to develop the Lincoln Hotel block. The $ 45 million project consists of three towers (one each for office space, hotels and apartment complexes), open plaza, and convention center. The project will eventually be named "Merchant Plaza."
In the early 1970s, Indiana Pacers announced their intention to move into a new arena. Their current arena, the State Fairgrounds Coliseum, has fallen into disrepair. John Jewett, an employee at F.C. Tucker, drew up a plan for a new arena in Indianapolis to keep the Pacers in town. The project is known as the Square Market Square and the development in the arena itself and the surrounding area (including the Golden Building) led by F.C. Food. The city pays a third of the arena while the investor group including F.C. Tucker and Indiana National Bank paid the remaining two-thirds of the $ 32 million price.
The arena was completed in 1974, but the Pacers had failed to make a profit at Indianapolis in 1977. As a representative of F.C. Tucker, Jewett led a three-month "Save the Pacers" campaign that culminated in a telethon that seeks to increase the number of season tickets sold. The campaign was a success and the Pacers remain in Indianapolis to this day. At one point, F.C. Tucker holds a 30% stake in the Pacers.
In the 1980s, the company continued major development projects, including Hotel Canterbury. The 1928 Building was originally known as the Lockerbie Hotel was renovated in 1982 and reopened under a new name. In 1986, Tucker, Houk, Wallace, and Boleman retired, and Bud's son Fred C. Tucker, III, David W. Goodrich, and H. James Litten bought the company. In 1996, Goodrich was elected President of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors, an international professional organization of commercial realtors. In 1998, he facilitated the merger of the Commercial Real Estate Services Division of the company into Turley Martin, an allied commercial real estate company (through Colliers International) headquartered in St. Louis. Louis, Missouri, and sold his interest in Tucker Company to his partner to become EVP of Turley Martin Tucker. In 2000, the Residential Real Estate Service Division has more than 500 sales associates in 13 offices in the Indianapolis area alone. In 2001, their housing sales revenues were $ 2.1 billion.
In 2005, Litten received the Distinguished Realtor of the Year award from the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of Realtors. In 2010, Fred C. Tucker, III retired as president of the company and sold his stake in the company to James Litten. At the time of his departure, the company oversaw 45 offices in Indiana and Kentucky and retained 1,500 sales associates in those offices. Tucker, III has been in the company for 33 years. Litten, who started the company in 1972 as a residential sales associate, became President of F.C. Tucker on April 1, 2010. In 2013, Litten is named to the list of Swanepoel Power 200 as one of the most influential people in the real estate field, and by 2015 the company has grown to 1,500 agents with $ 3.2 billion in sales.
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Operation
The F.C. The Tucker Company provides a variety of real estate products and services. They provide real estate brokers, home insurance, mortgages, title insurance, and various homeowners insurance and warranty products. F.C. Tucker also operates 8 additional businesses. These businesses include Home Service, Title Service LLC, Tucker Associates Inc., Tucker Insurance Agency, Tucker Mortgage LLC, LP Company Tucker/Schrader Auction, Tucker Referral Inc., and Tucker School of Real Estate. They also maintain a strategic alliance with HMS Home Warranty.
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