Who
The vice chair of Cushman & Wakefield, Stacom is one of the city's most powerful—and highly paid—commercial real estate brokers. Her sister is CB Richard Ellis's Darcy Stacom.
Backstory
Real estate is a family tradition for the Stacoms. Her great-grandfather developed buildings on the Lower East Side and her grandfather constructed commercial properties on Long Island. Her father Matt Stacom, a veteran broker at Cushman & Wakefield, was involved in leasing the Sears Tower in Chicago, and her late mother was once a Cushman & Wakefield broker as well. So it came as little surprise when Tara picked up her real estate broker's license while still in high school and joined Cushman Wake after graduating college in the early '80s. Since then she's been busy climbing the commercial real estate ladder, and in 2005 she was named vice chair at Cushman & Wakefield, where she reports to the company's chairman, Bruce Mosler.
Of note
Stacom represents a number of big corporate clients, including McGraw-Hill, Colgate-Palmolive, Warner Music, and The Bank of New York. Recent assignments have included leasing the office building 340 Madison and SL Green's 485 Lexington Avenue. While not quite as famous as her sister, Darcy Stacom of rival CB Richard Ellis, Tara remains one the top producing commercial brokers in town.
Personal
Stacom is married to Arthur Hill Diedrick, Jr., a Connecticut real estate developer. (Like most Stacoms, he's a onetime Cush Wake employee.) Her first husband was attorney Paul Nussbaum. Tara and Arthur live in a pre-war on Park Avenue. In 2006, they purchased a condo in Naples, Florida for $2.8 million.
