Real Estate Development, Sales & Marketing
Greater Chicago Area
- Current
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- Executive Sales Consultant & Team Leader at The Gramata Realty Group
- President at Gramata Development Corporation
- Past
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- Corporate manager & sales executive at Habitat Company
- Education
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- University of Illinois at Chicago
- University of Cincinnati
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Jim Gramata’s Summary
The Gramata Development Corporation is a neighborhood residential development company dedicated to deliver to the public innovative and unique architectural designs and high-quality, dependably built homes. Our interest is to create an exquisitely complex architecture reflective of the multivalent nature of contemporary culture. Our mission is to create new, contemporary living spaces that meet the needs of our complex lifestyles.
Our residential real estate sales & marketing mission is to successfully apply our wide range of sales, marketing and management skills to every purchase or sale and to provide the highest level of service and customer satisfaction for each of our buyer, seller, developer and investor clients.
Our vision is to be the neighborhood real estate professionals of choice in Chicago while providing the latest technologies and the highest level of sales and marketing strategies available to each of our buyer, seller, developer and investor clients.
Jim Gramata’s Specialties:
Intensity index
risk-taker
adventuresome
decisive
inquisitive
self-assured
competitive
quick
discriminating
reflective
factual
logical
confident
convincing
observant
amiable
stable
outgoing
alert
eager
critical
high standards
analytical
sensitive
mature
persistent
Jim Gramata’s Experience
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Executive Sales Consultant & Team Leader
The Gramata Realty Group
(Real Estate industry)
August 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)
Sales and marketing consultant for private and corporate residential real estate transactions including resale property and new construction development branding, marketing, sales and negotiations. Award winning top-producing real estate consultant in Chicago in 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Designing and implementing a design-focused customer-experience branding package for developers which researches and designs a marketing story of target buyers from the pre-construction marketing and branding designs through the initial and ongoing advertising, promotions, and events from point of sale to post-closing. -
President
Gramata Development Corporation
(Real Estate industry)
January 1991 — Present (18 years 11 months)
The Gramata Development Corporation is a neighborhood residential development company dedicated to deliver to the public innovative and unique architectural designs and high-quality, dependably built homes.
Our interest is to create an exquisitely complex architecture reflective of the multivalent nature of contemporary culture. Our desire is to establish and work within coherencies or orders which are open-ended and whose spatial organizations may require more than a cursory examination to discern.
Our mission is to create new, contemporary living spaces that meet the needs of our complex lifestyles.
Our primary focus is to revitalize and develop neglected properties while maintaining a continued commitment to and respect for the quality of neighborhoods and community. -
Corporate manager & sales executive
Habitat Company
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Real Estate industry)
March 1990 — July 1991 (1 year 5 months)
Represented the developer in final phase of construction of two twelve-story mid-rise and one forty-story high-rise commercial & residential complex in downtown Chicago
Jim Gramata’s Education
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University of Illinois at Chicago
M.Arch , Architecture , 1989 — 1991
Graduated with Masters of Architecture degree with Cum Laude Honors
- Activities and Societies:
- Habitat for Humanity Housing a Community Design Competition,
Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism: Gallery Exhibition of Design Project ,
Henry Adams Certificate of Merit for Excellence in Graduate Studies ,
American Institute of Architects/American Architectural Foundation Scholastic Award,
University of Illinois School of Architecture Faculty Citation for Excellence in Design,
Hubert Award for Excellence in Research
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University of Cincinnati
BA , Ergonomics , 1983 — 1986
Skills
Strong-willed individual who offers creative solutions to complex problems
Embrace difficult problems and seek original challenges to keep my energy focused
Challenges inspire me to create innovative solutions & discover new paths to success
Able to ignore conventional thinking seeking instead novelty and original challenges
Cross application of experiences and disciplines into new solutions
Analytical thinking can be applied to creative innovative proposals and designs
Sensitivity allows me to get in touch with the intricacies & nuances of a project
Strive to seek continuously exciting and challenging opportunities
Constantly ask if there is a better way to solve the problem for task
Mastery of client sensitivities and sensibilities
Creation and implementation of marketing campaigns and advertising strategies
Hands-on approach from sketches, models & mockups to actual built construction- Activities and Societies:
- Fearless Fosdick Club, President (members: 2) :)
Additional Information
Jim Gramata’s Websites:
Jim Gramata’s Interests:
internet marketing, branding, marketing, sales, unique buyer and seller services, business development, business model growth, residential architecture, residential design, residential development, marathon running, 10K races, losing at texas hold-em, baseball
Jim Gramata’s Groups:
Chicago Association of Realtors, Illinois Association of Realtors, National Association of Realtors, Edgewater Chamber of Commerce, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce
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Chicago Home Builder Network
Jim Gramata’s Honors:
Chicago Tribune, February, 2007
Illinois Realtors Magazine March, 2006
Illinois Realtors Magazine May, 2007
Chicago Tribune Magazine, April, 2002
Chicago Tribune, April, 1999
Chicago Tribune, March 1999
Chicago Tribune, May 1998
Chicago Tribune, November 1998
Habitat for Humanity Housing a Community Design Competition
Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism: Gallery Exhibition
Henry Adams Certificate of Merit for Excellence in Graduate Studies
American Institute of Architects Design Award
American Architectural Foundation Scholastic Award
University of Illinois School of Architecture Citation for Excellence in Design
Hubert Award for Excellence in Research
Illinois Real Estate Brokers License
Masters of Architecture, University of Illinois Chicago, Cum Laude
Doctorate Program, Ergonomics (40 hrs), University of Illinois Chicago
Bachelor of Arts, University of Cincinnati, Cum Laude
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