Jon Milton Peterson
Senior Vice President
The Peterson Companies

Jon M. Peterson has worked in the family’s real estate development business, previously known as Hazel/Peterson Companies, since 1986.  The Peterson Companies has been a regionally recognized leader in the community development industry, providing 24,000 residential lots, approximately 3 million square feet of retail and approximately 3.5 million square feet of quality office space. TPC provides management services for its own portfolio of office buildings and retail centers. 

Mr. Peterson’s role as Senior Vice President of Commercial and Business Development has allowed him to develop close ties to the entire metropolitan real estate community.  He has been involved on a day-to-day basis in all aspects of build-to-suit, purchase and acquisition, sale, leasing and financing of commercial properties as well as ground up development of approximately 2.25 million square feet of commercial office product in the Washington Metropolitan area.

His strength and expertise include Class A office leasing and mixed use development from the acquisition of the land to stabilized cash flow.

Mr. Peterson graduated from Middlebury College with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology/Anthropology and English.

Community Activities

• Member of the Board of Directors, Joe Gibb’s Youth for Tomorrow (Organization for “at-risk” troubled youth)
• Chairman, Joe Jacoby/ Peterson Family Foundation Golf Tournament to benefit Youth For Tomorrow
• Volunteer, Inova Hospital-Life With Cancer