Creating a great experience for you is what we do.

Capital Rivers' dedication to our core values helps make our real estate transactions more successful. We'll approach your project with integrity, adaptability, ownership, passion and fun. These are the values that drive everything we do.

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Integrity

We believe our personal integrity builds strong relationships and we're in this for the long haul.

Adaptive

We’re agile, flexible, and creative. We are always seeking out new information and new ways to do things, so we are always at the top of our game.

Ownership

This is more than just a hand shake for us. We put everything we have into your project as if it were our own. We want you to have a great experience with us.

Passion

We love our jobs. We love the markets we work in and want to make an impact. We like to work with people who feel the same. After all, what’s more effective than working with a team who cares?

Fun

Our creativity inspires fun. Fun leads to enthusiasm. Enthusiasm breeds great results. Great results is our goal for you.

This is what makes us
really good at what we do.

We believe in building strong partnerships with each other and our clients through creativity, collaboration, and gratitude. Our core values let us build awesome relationships with our team as well as everyone who comes through our front door. That can lead to some pretty great results.

Great Values = Great Results

The Capital Rivers Team.

Greg Aguirre

President

Greg Aguirre started his career in the home building industry handling site acquisitions and entitlements for both a private builder and a large national builder, but soon learned his true passion was in retail commercial real estate. He then spent over 10 years in the corporate real estate side of the business handling among other things acquisitions, leasing, contract negotiations, entitlements, construction management, portfolio management, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic planning for CVS/pharmacy, Chase Bank, and The Sleep Train Group of Companies. This diverse experience has allowed him to have the unique ability to analyze various issues and challenges in order to develop and deploy practical solutions ensuring the success of our projects. As a result of his experience he believes success lies in maintaining complete transparency, hard work, loyalty, and a team approach to the business. He is a graduate of California State University Sacramento with a B.S. in Business Administration and emphasis in Real Estate & Urban Land Use, a licensed California Real Estate Broker, has his Construction Project Management Certification from the University of California Davis, and is a long time member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) as well as the Association of Commercial Real Estate (ACRE).
Meet Greg

Joe Blanton

Director of Sales & Leasing

Joe is an experienced commercial real estate broker and International restauranteur. Joe’s primary focus is partnering with his clients who are multi-unit restaurant Franchisors and franchisees to provide them world-class real estate advice and solutions. Joe enjoys working with independent restaurant start-ups as well, where he has the opportunity to share his experience and knowledge for the betterment of his clients. Joe is the co-founder of Krush Burger, originally a food truck business and now an International QSR Burger Brand, with locations in California and the Middle East. In 2014, Krush Burger was honored with the small business of the year award by the California chapter of the Small Business Association. Prior to founding Krush Burger, Joe worked in the kitchens of Daniel Boulud in New York City, Thomas Keller in Napa Valley, and Bradley Ogden in Roseville, Ca. Joe holds a B.S. in Marketing from the California State University, Chico as well as a Culinary Arts Degree from The French Culinary Institute in New York City. Joe served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve from 1993 to 2001. Joe is a member of the board of directors for A Touch of Understanding, a regional disability awareness non-profit and is also a member of the Sacramento Chapter of Rotary. Joe resides in El Dorado Hills, Ca with his wife Erin and son Andrew. They enjoy watching baseball games and visiting our National Parks.

Meet Joe

Carissa Guess

Director of Operations

Ryan Orn

Director of Sales & Leasing

Ryan is a results-driven leader with 20 years of retail, strategic management, and real estate experience.  He grew up in the Bay Area and came to Sacramento in 1996 to attend college.  He graduated from Sacramento State University with a BA in Economics. While in college, Ryan started his professional career at Sleep Train where he would learn and continue to develop his retail skills.  He then followed his passion into commercial real estate after reconnecting with another Sleep Train alumni, Capital Rivers’ President Greg Aguirre.

Ryan is one of the few commercial real estate professionals that have strategic operations and retail experience growing brands big and small.  He looks at retail leasing and investment sales through a different lens focused on the perfect tenant and the perfect location to maximize business performance or the owner’s investment.  Ryan specializes in retail with a focus on all things auto-related including gas stations, car washes, oil change providers, collision/auto repair, dealerships, wrecking yards, and industrial equipment yards including storage. He enjoys partnering with business owners to take on new challenges and achieve their dreams of owning their first or multiple business locations. 

Ryan is driven to elevate your experience by putting response time and service at the top of his priority list. The highest level of service that you provide to your customers is how he treats his tenants, property owners, and clients.  You can expect him to answer the phone, provide prompt follow up, and return messages within 24 hours. His goal is to provide an experience that is untouched by any other real estate professional or broker.

Meet Ryan

Chris Bucklin

VP of Acquisitions & Development

Chris has over 15 years in the commercial real estate industry specializing in applying his expertise and market knowledge to develop and broker commercial properties.  Chris started his career at PMB Development, a retail development firm based in Sonoma County, CA and has experience in all aspects of commercial real estate including development, market analysis, budgeting, due diligence, site acquisition, entitlements, leasing, and investment sales. Chris has built a solid foundation of corporate clients through transactions past and present in part by consistently exceeding expectations.  Chris is also an avid outdoorsman and enjoys fishing, boating, hiking, archery and dirt bike riding in his spare time.

Meet Chris

Geoffrey Smith

Mr. Geoffrey Smith brings a full range of Leasing Skills in Real Estate Design, Development, Marketing, and Asset Management. With 16 years of experience in the USA and the Gulf Region, Mr. Smith possesses extensive knowledge in retail new project/development leasing, distressed property leasing strategies and marketing strategies to secure diverse retail brand mixes. Extensive retailer knowledge and an awareness of global retail activity enable Mr. Smith to capitalize on emerging trends and opportunities in retail.

Meet Geoffrey

Scott Toussaint

General Counsel

Scott brings to CRC a 20-year track record of counseling law firm and in-house clients in their ownership, development and use of commercial real estate.

 Scott comes to us following a 5-year stint in the retail mattress industry, as in-house real estate counsel and Vice President for Mattress Firm, previously Sleep Train, in Rocklin, Calif.  Scott led the in-house real estate team that handled lease negotiations for the nationwide chain, acquiring a deep appreciation for the issues and concerns of retail tenants.

A Northern California native, Scott earned his J.D. from Hastings College in San Francisco and spent over a decade with the Thoits Law Firm in Palo Alto, where his real estate practice spanned a wide variety of legal topics and transactions including leasing, purchase & sale, financing, property tax and more.  Before entering law, Scott studied at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Mass., receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics with a Minor in History.

In his role at Capital Rivers Commercial, Scott advises on all manner of development issues, oversees general legal compliance, and leads contract negotiations on all major projects.

Meet Scott
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Continually prove to be
among the best.

Capital Rivers was introduced through a tenant relationship as a growing single tenant development partner with a successful track record. Greg and his team continually prove to be among the best to work with: very detail oriented, quick to respond, and always professional. As a quickly growing capital advisory firm, the relationship proved a natural fit and we look forward to growing alongside Capital Rivers for many years to come. 

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