John D’Amato
By Joshua Burd
Palestina Scrivo Properties Inc. has added veteran broker John D’Amato as an executive vice president with its Clifton-based team.
The brokerage firm said D’Amato, who comes from McBride Corporate Real Estate, joins its ranks with decades of experience in the industrial real estate sector. He has represented a diverse client base and handled a range of industrial and office real estate transactions during his career, including property acquisitions and dispositions, site selection, design-build projects and investment sales.
“We are excited to have such a seasoned professional as John join our team,” Peter Scrivo and Tom Palestina, co-founders of PSP, said in a joint statement. “With more than 40 years of commercial brokerage experience in northern and central New Jersey, we are confident that he will be an excellent resource for clients to find the perfect locations to enhance their business operations.”
In a news release, PSP noted that D’Amato has completed transactions with companies such as Sharp USA, Sitex Group, Commercial Realty Group, Sava Industries, Parker-Hannifin Corp., Penwood Real Estate Investment Management and others. His positions with McBride included partner and executive vice president, while his commercial real estate career began in Coldwell Banker Commercial’s Hackensack office.
Prior to his work in real estate, D’Amato was an account executive with Xerox Corp. in New York City.