COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE PROFILE: ADAM PALMER

ADAM PALMER
Principal and Managing Director, Office & Investment Services,
LandQwest Commercial,
Fort Myers

Adam Palmer has been with LandQwest Commercial, one of Southwest Florida's leading commercial real estate brokerages, since 2009, following a career in the software industry. Palmer has become among the region's top agents, recognized by real estate research firm CoStar Group as a “Power Broker” in Charlotte, Collier and Lee counties 10 times out of the past 13 years. He is also the president-elect of the CCIM Institute for Florida, one of the industry's most prestigious groups that has more than 1,000 members statewide. Palmer and colleague Mike Doyle were recently tapped by the Lee Memorial Health System to sell the remaining 11.5 acres in the health care provider's HealthPark in Fort Myers. The park contains a 270-bed medical center and a skilled-nursing facility, and the 128-bed Golisano Children's Hospital is under construction and slated to open next year.

Why is it a good time for Lee Memorial Health System to sell the remaining parcels within HealthPark?
I think the health system recognized that they could improve the master plan for the campus by bringing in third-party owners who would be interested in providing services that Lee Memorial isn't focused on. Right now, the campus is focused on health care and health care-related services exclusively.