Naples broker and dealmaker switches commercial real estate firms

Adam Palmer, a commercial real estate veteran who spent the past 16 years as managing director and principal at LQ Commercial Real Estate Services, has joined CBRE as an executive vice president in Naples.

Palmer, who will maintain a focus on Southwest Florida, is the broker behind the $92.5 million sale of the 41-acre CenterLinks Business Park last year. The deal for the 454,200-square-foot Fort Myers park at the time was the largest industrial sale in Southwest Florida history.

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It was surpassed in November by the sale of Tri-County 75, a Fort Myers industrial park, for $155 million.

Before getting into the commercial real estate industry Palmer, according to his LinkedIn profile, worked in software, where he built systems, applications and databases for Lucent Technologies, Sprint and police and fire departments.

He joined LQ in 2009 and, according to CBRE, has completed more than 1,000 transactions.

He says the move to the new firm allows him to “optimize what has been built over the last two decades with a broader platform, deeper resources and a truly global reach.”