When Dannielle Robinson says she loves doing deals for clients, she has exuberant proof to back it up: Sometimes, early in her commercial real estate brokerage career, she forgot to include her fee in the contract. “I get so excited to go find people spaces,” she says. “I’ve been stuffed a few times.”
Although Robinson, a senior associate at commercial real estate brokerage firm Colliers International Southwest Florida in Fort Myers, doesn’t make that mistake anymore, she remains passionate about her job and work. She’s the firm’s senior retail broker in Southwest Florida, specializing in site selection, lease negotiation and both tenant and landlord representation.
Named CoStar Power Broker from 2014-2017 for high transaction volume, Robinson got into the business about a decade ago after considering a career in interior design. “I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do,” she says, quipping she was so green when she started out. “I couldn’t even spell real estate.”