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Worked with family-owned construction business from early childhood through high school
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Worked as a carpenter on a rehab project restoring 19th-century homes in sailors Snug Harbor, Staten Island NY
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Worked as a union carpenter in Hicksville, NY local 1772
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Worked for New York City Housing Preservation and development department. He supervised rehabilitating City apartment buildings in the lower east side of NYC. Held positions from building maintenance supervisor to lower East Side director. Supervised all aspects of building rehab, including writing specifications, bidding trade work, and supervising the work to completion. Also worked closely with the city’s Historical department and the commissioner of Housing.
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Worked for Kaiser Permanente as the Director of Facilities. Managed medical facilities in the North East region. Also managed all construction projects, including constructing a 110,000-square-foot medical center from the ground up. Helped reorganize the building maintenance departments in the mid-Atlantic and southern states.
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Served as the director of facilities and Operations for Carmel and Chappaqua Central School District. Manage an operations budget of 15 million and a yearly capital budget of 1-5 million. Responsible for 58 employees and 1 million square feet of buildings. Control preventive maintenance plans, new construction, and all building repairs and planning of such. Managed over 100 million dollars in capital renovations and construction over his time with the school districts. In the role of project manager handling all AIA documents and ensuring the project is being built by specifications and plans. Run all project meetings and provide weekly reports, including two weeks' look ahead for the project. He ensured the projects were done on time and on budget with few change orders.
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Founder and owner of KayBar LLC. KayBar is a national construction management firm servicing developers, real estate firms, K-12 institutions, universities, and not-for-profit organizations. KayBar specializes in both the redevelopment of existing properties and new construction. KayBar and its partners focus on well-rounded projects that have community significance and historical meaning. Further, as part of a proactive approach to being a part of the community, KayBar manages the buildings after the redevelopment. The company’s goal is not only financial. It is strongly to build for the greater good.
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Founder and managing partner of GreenHub Development Corporation. GreenHub is a development company that is focused on redeveloping cities and areas in need of revitalization. They work in partnership with the city and buy and redevelop empty buildings and bring in new tenants to help the city revitalize. They work towards helping job growth in the city as well through their projects and long-term ownership of the buildings. They also are property managers for all the buildings that they own.
JOE GRAMANDO
Mr. Gramando has extensive background in new construction, facilities management, redevelopment, and historical restoration. Mr. Gramando is focused on purposeful construction that satisfies a need for the community; he is extremely adept in design-build and thus maintaining projects within budget and on schedule. This commitment goes far beyond a dollar value and extends to construction for the benefit of the community.
Mr. Gramando entered the field of construction as a project manager at New York City Housing Development & Preservation Department in their renovation division. In leading capital renovations of existing buildings owned by the City of New York on the lower east side, Mr. Gramando supervised dozens of apartment building renovations with HPD, ultimately leading to his assignment as the Director of Maintenance and Renovations for the lower east side of Manhattan's Housing Preservation Development Department. Mr. Gramando went on to work for Kaiser Permanente as the Director of Operations for the Northeast, during which time he managed several medical buildings and oversaw major renovations and new construction of medical office buildings. He then went on to work for three school districts as their Director of Facilities and Operations. In the role of Director of Facilities and Operations, Mr. Gramando managed over one million sq feet of space, yearly budgets of over 15 million, and ran all aspects of maintenance and capital construction, with projects totaling over 40 million.
