MISSION
Studio 1112 Housing Concepts provide personalized holistic solutions and service delivery to our clients to ensure that their property performs at maximum value. We are committed to excellence, transparency and integrity in order to meet the specific needs of our clients and provide a quality of service that exceeds market expectations.
WHAT WE DO
Studio 1112 Housing Concepts is the one-stop shop to meet your Property Maximization and Building Utilization needs. We specialize in Property Management, Asset Maximization and Property Development for Residential and Commercial Buildings throughout New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. We pride ourselves in providing our clients with the depth of resources of a larger firm while maintaining the personalized interaction and attention to detail of a smaller boutique firm. It is our goal to provide unsurpassed client satisfaction with our excellent, consistent, and reliable property management services, customized operating systems, capital and energy optimization programs and advanced financial reporting systems. We achieve success by managing client properties from the owner’s perspective. Our goal is always threefold: efficient operations of physical plant and staffing, optimum resident satisfaction, and asset value enhancement maximizing return on investment. We are an integrated team that provides a broad array of services in a seamless package that promotes economic efficiency and profitability for owners, investors and occupiers of space.
Who Are We
Karl A. Carter, R.A., Partner - Director of Properties Design & Development
Karl Carter has been a licensed architect for 23 years as well as a real estate broker for 10 years. He has the ability to draw from either discipline to provide critical insight on matters of real estate and architecture with a high level of expertise that has proven to be invaluable. Karl began his professional career designing and developing high-end interiors, followed by commercial spaces which evolved into the development of larger scale structures in various U.S. cities and abroad.
Karl initially worked as a project designer/architect for Absec and Brandt, a high-end design firm in New York City, for ten years where his principal duties were to design high-end homes and interiors in the wealthy enclaves of America including Palm Springs, Scarsdale, Malibu, Scottsdale and Park Avenue. This experience afforded him the insight into how to deploy finishes and inexpensive materials strategically to deliver an upscale look which inspired him to start his own Architectural Firm Karl Anthony Architect LLC. The experience and ability to deliver an upscale look and feel without a heavy price tag to a middle-class clientele in the development of their property has been a successful formula for the firm. Karl’s expertise in new construction, renovations, architecture, and interior design with a complete look, inside and out is a major component of client satisfaction. He believes in providing services with one hand, one complete voice, and one vision to ensure project success.
Karl Carter, a graduate of City College in New York, is also partner in a development company, CASA Partners LLC, which has developed multi-family residential structures ranging from 6 – 12 stories, 20-100-unit structures. The company is currently developing a hotel/museum project offshore along with several projects in the Bronx & Brooklyn, NY, and New Jersey.
Imebet S. Blair-Carter – Partner - Director of Operations & Property Management
Imebet S. Blair-Carter is a seasoned professional that brings 31 years of experience in the management arena for entrepreneurial and corporate organizations. She has managed all facets of several firms including Karl Anthony Architect, LLC and Casa Partners LLC from conception and startup operations to their ultimate business success. As the key driver in development of an organization-wide strategic planning, vision process, and startup operations, Imebet drove sales efforts and shoulder responsibilities of site supervisions, accounting, and project management, along with monitoring all aspects of the business operations including research, finance, HR, and marketing.
As a Property Manager with 21 years of experience managing property throughout New York City, Imebet has created a superior tenant community through regular maintenance, addressing complaints and reducing service costs and response time. Her additional services include the creation and updating of leasing documentation for approved applicants, managing yearly service budgets and negotiating contracts with construction, maintenance and utilities companies.
Additionally, Imebet exercises her communal responsibilities by being an active volunteer in her children’s’ public school as the PTA President for 6 years and is currently the President of the Alumni Association.
Imebet earned her Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Bernard M. Baruch College in 1989. She thrives on challenges and believes that knowledge comes through experience and continued growth.
Gregory J. Hawkins, Partner-Director of Strategic Partnerships and Development
Gregory Hawkins has over twenty years of successful experience in project management, program development and new business development in New York, New Jersey and Delaware. Having worked in senior positions in both the public and private sector, Greg has a proven ability to foster relationships with community organizations, business owners, elected officials and senior executives in order to successfully complete projects on time and under budget. Greg has played a major role in the successful completion of numerous initiatives ranging from the construction and development of a 240 bed Residential Rehabilitation and Training Facility in Brooklyn for The Phoenix House Foundation to the establishment of two state licensed training programs for construction training and job placement in New Jersey.
After starting his career with the New York City Housing Authority coordinating training and employment programs for Housing Authority residents, Greg began working with construction professionals in the development of residential and commercial properties that provided training and employment opportunities for community residents. Projects include working as Project Manager in the development of affordable housing with a workforce consisting of formerly incarcerated laborers and apprentices as part of an initiative in Wilmington Delaware. His commercial experience includes Construction Management supervising rehabilitation projects for two pharmaceutical companies, new construction of a medical facility and rehabilitation of two supermarkets in New Jersey. It is his passion for community service aligned with the delivery of superior product and services to his clientele that has been a major component of Greg’s success.
Greg is a native New Yorker who earned a Bachelors of Business Administration Degree in Marketing Management from Baruch College. During his thirty year career, he has been licensed by the New York State Department of Education Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision as a Director of a Registered Vocational Schools and Private Business Schools in Brooklyn and has served on the Workforce Investment Board for Essex County in New Jersey. The key factors in excelling, Greg believes, are a do-what-it takes customer service approach, along with personal attention, patience, product knowledge and open communication. Greg relishes the opportunity of putting Studio 1112 Housing Concept’s best foot forward on projects for property repositioning, management and development while building rewarding partnerships with the clients that we serve.