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Bill Adams, MBA, CCIM, ALC, CRB

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Bill Adams, MBA, CCIM, ALC, CRB

President

Office: 404-688-1222

Cell: 404-273-0687

wtadams@adamscre.com

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William T. (Bill) Adams is President of Adams REALTORS, an Atlanta based commercial and residential real estate company. He is an Atlanta native with a 50-year history of civic involvement in neighborhood, historic preservation, affordable housing, and active and passive recreation issues.

Adams has a BBA in Real Estate and an MBA in Finance from Georgia State University. He began his real estate career in 1972 with Cousins Properties, Inc. after serving two years active duty as an Army officer. Adams formed Adams Realtors in 1979. During his career he has been involved in residential loft and office projects involving historic tax credits as well as more conventional land, office, industrial, retail, and multifamily transactions. Adams has also helped many nonprofit and governmental organizations with their acquisition and disposition strategies.

Adams has served on the Boards and held board leadership positions with several non-profit organizations including the Habitat for Humanity Atlanta affiliate. He has served on the Board of Directors and committees of the Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors and is on the ACBR Government Affairs Committee.

Currently, Adams is the Chair of Capital Hill Neighborhood Development Corp., a community development corporation (CDC) formed by the three churches near the Georgia State Capitol to promote downtown housing. He also serves on the Decatur Land Trust Board where he is Treasurer.

Adams earned the prestigious CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member) designation in 1989 from the CCIM Institute, an affiliate of the National Association of Realtors. Adams currently serves as Chair of the Institute’s Governance Committee. In 2018, he received the Accredited Land Consultant (ALC) designation from the Realtors Land Institute, another affiliate of the National Association of Realtors. Adams serves on the RLI Government Affairs Committee

He has been a youth soccer coach with the Inter Atlanta Football Club and in late 2003 helped the club acquire land for the first intown Atlanta soccer complex. He has coached youth baseball and basketball with the Decatur Active Living Department.

An avid runner he has run two marathons, multiple half marathons and has a consecutive streak of running Atlanta’s Peachtree Road Race dating back to 1975

Adams is a member of the 2003 Class of Leadership Atlanta. He received the Grant Park Conservancy’s Legacy Award in 2015 for his volunteer work with the conservancy. In 2016 Adams received the President’s Award for outstanding service to the Georgia CCIM Chapter. He was named a City of Decatur Hometown Hero in 2017 for his volunteer work with the city’s Active Living Department. Adams lives in Decatur, Georgia with his wife, Carol. They have two adult sons.

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• 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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