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The Challenges of Rezoning and Zoning Entitlements: Part 1

By badams | July 21, 2022

By Bill Adams, MBA, CCIM, ALC, CRB, Founder, Adams Realtors Many of our commercial real estate transactions involve urban properties in areas where the land use is in transition, meaning rezoning is often inevitable. A good example is a property that Adams Realtors’ Michael Reeves, CCIM sold in 2020 at Boulevard and the Atlanta Beltline […]

Adams CRE Attends the 2022 CCIM Institute Mid-Year Governance Meetings

By badams | July 21, 2022

Three Adams Commercial Real Estate brokers – Michael Reeves, CCIM, Marion Williams, CCIM and Bill Adams, CCIM – attended the CCIM mid-year governance meetings in Charlotte, North Carolina on April 8 – 12. Over 300 Institute members from around the world attended the meeting, the largest number of attendees since the beginning of the Covid-19 […]

How a 1031 Exchange Helped Decatur Gain a New School

By badams | July 21, 2022

By Bill Adams, MBA, CCIM, ALC, CRB, Founder, Adams Realtors In early 2015, Adams Realtors received an assignment from the City Schools of Decatur, Georgia to find a site for a new upper elementary school. Decatur, Georgia is a mature suburb of Atlanta with a population of about 21,000. The City of Decatur is in […]

Hindsight Is 20/20: A Review of the 2021 Atlanta Commercial Real Estate Market

By badams | July 21, 2022

As we approach the second anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, I would like to look at how the top five commercial real estate product types performed in the Atlanta market last year. 2021 was the first full calendar year of coping with the pandemic and its variants. Overall, at the end […]

2022 Atlanta Commercial Real Estate Forecast

By badams | July 21, 2022

By Bill Adams, MBA, CCIM, CRB, ALC I have often said that my crystal ball is much clearer looking backward than forward. As we begin a new calendar year, I do feel like that 2022 will be another strong year for commercial real estate like 2021. Here are my predictions based on 40+ years of […]

Adams Realtors Celebrates 43 Years: A Look Back at Our Start in 1979

By badams | July 21, 2022

I am thrilled to be able to say Adams Realtors will celebrate its 43rd anniversary in March 2022. The company was incorporated in the State of Georgia in March 1979. Over the years,  Adams Realtors has weathered four recessions, five City of Atlanta Mayors, seven U.S. Presidents and countless bank mergers. I’d like to take […]

Adams Commercial Real Estate Sells The Seville for $2,525,000

By badams | July 20, 2022

The Seville briefly came to market last year and received a flurry of offers, eventually selling in November for $2,525,000. The 7,000-square-foot property, which was marketed as being “historic,” is fully leased. Tenants include Japanese restaurant Ok Yaki in a modernized corner space with a side patio, Boho Gal Jewelry, and Medly Pharmacy. Read more […]

The Atlanta Braves: One Move Created Two Real Estate Home Runs

By badams | July 20, 2022

When a city or a community loses a major generator of economic activity, the void in the economy may take years, if ever, to fill. Closing a military base, an automotive plant or even the anchor tenant of a regional mall may have a devastating impact on the local economy. The Atlanta Braves were a […]

Atlanta Commercial Real Estate Market Update Nov. 22, 2021

By badams | July 20, 2022

At the eleven-month mark of 2021, a couple of property types in the Atlanta commercial real estate market, Office and Hospitality, are continuing to underperform as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. On the other hand, demand for well-located land continues to be extremely strong. The following will address each segment and their outlook. Office […]

Atlanta Commercial Real Estate Recap for Q3 2021

By badams | July 20, 2022

We’re already past the three-quarter mark of 2021 and heading into the end of the year. Despite an unpredictable past couple of years, the Atlanta commercial real estate market continues to be on solid footing. Read on for my thoughts and the status of Atlanta’s industrial, retail and multifamily residential CRE sectors following the close […]

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About Us

• As a native Atlantan who grew up in a house built by my grandparents in 1902 across the street from Grant Park, I have always loved the City’s downtown and historic intown neighborhoods. I went to school from the first grade through graduate school in downtown Atlanta.

As a child growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, I witnessed and mourned the decline of those wonderful old “close-in” neighborhoods and their business districts. By the time I was in my early 20s in the late ’60s, I had gotten involved in early intown revitalization efforts in Grant Park under the auspices of a program known as “Model Cities.” After a tour of duty in the Army and Graduate Business School at Georgia State University, I joined the forerunner of the Grant Park Neighborhood Association in late 1974. In the early 1970s most intown neighborhoods were “redlined” by banks and neglected by the local government. The neighborhood revitalization movement in Atlanta was in its infancy. Banks refused to make real estate loans in these “high-risk” neighborhoods. The level of city services was poor and to make matters worse, the city had rezoned many of these neighborhoods from single-family to multifamily residential in the 1950s.

I became a neighborhood activist in Grant Park and, along with others, helped to bring about one of the largest “down zonings” in City history, converting the area back to single-family/duplex zoning from apartment zoning. I was also a community representative and later President of the local Neighborhood Housing Services program, which helped local lenders understand the housing market in the City’s neighborhoods and helped end their practice of not making loans in these communities. I later served as a neighborhood association and Neighborhood Planning Unit (NPU) Chair as well as a board member of the civic groups working to restore the Cyclorama in Grant Park and historic Oakland Cemetery.

All these experiences have had a profound effect on me and the company that I founded in 1979. I had a commercial real estate background but came to realize that strong neighborhoods are vital to a city’s quality of life and its commercial core. Adams Commercial’s approach to real estate has always reflected the values of neighborhood activism. Our transactions involve people, not just numbers. We are in the problem solving and information business. After more than 40 years of service, our goal is to complete our client’s purchase or investment while at the same time adding value to the community through that transaction.

I hope that you find our website to be a helpful tool whether you are planning to buy, sell or are trying to get a good feel for the state of the commercial real estate market in Atlanta. If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail me at wtadams@adamscre.com. If you have an interest in commercial real estate, please visit our Adams Commercial Real Estate Website at adamscre.com.

Thanks,

Bill Adams, MBA, CCIM, ALC, CRB
President
ADAMS COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
Atlanta, GA

Our Core Values: Success, Integrity, Wisdom, Dependability, Community

At Adams Commercial we define SUCCESS when our clients get up from their closing with a smile. To accomplish this,  we start by putting the needs of our clients first, which to us is the essence of INTEGRITY. We bring the collective WISDOM of our agents to every real estate deal … wisdom that comes only from the company’s years of business experience and expertise in intown markets. Whether it is showing up at the appointed time or making sure all details are noted and deadlines met, we believe DEPENDABILITY is also an essential ingredient of a successful real estate transaction. We believe that your successful purchase or sale adds value to COMMUNITY. And we are proud to play a role in building and sustaining a thriving community.

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