Stephen S. Jemal became born and raised in Brooklyn New York as a primary technology American. He became the youngest of 10 kids and compelled and preferred to start running on the age of 10 years old. He found out His paintings ethic and ethical values from His high-quality Father and Mother and treasure the price of own circle of relatives unity. He commenced out with some showcases of electronics as a concession in my father’s bargain save in Spanish Harlem in Manhattan. By the age of 14, He had three area of expertise electronics shops in Harlem promoting electronics and records.
In 1976, He opened his first “Nobody Beats The Wiz” save on Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Ultimately it grew to one hundred ten shops in 6 states with 6,000 personnel and income of $2.2B. Due to his speedy growth and due to price, after his seventh save he based and operated his personal in-residence production company, in which he hired six hundred tradesmen to construct over 20M sf of retail buying centers, whereupon he found out first-hand EVERY factor of production, from idea-to-completion. He had his personal crew of in-residence CAD architects and might “Value Engineer” (VE), all plans earlier than pencil hits paper to keep away from price overruns, extrude orders and the lethal extras related to them. Not simplest did he construct each buying center, however he additionally actually synthetic all of the furnishings for the whole suit-out of each indoors space. Everything contained in a Wiz save became designed and both constructed and/or synthetic via way of means of him. All his substances had been bought without delay from the authentic producers with “desired kingdom popularity clauses” in all his contracts to store money. He had all subs bid Time & Materials (T&M), to preserve them sincere and usually provided his personal substances to store extra cash and time and manipulate the process. This general vertical integration of design, production with management, tradesmen, manufacturing, suit-out and whole set up supplied him with a unique, strong expertise base on a way to construct efficaciously, rapidly, and maximum important, price effectively. His fortes had been production and advertising and marketing as that became his function and duty at The Wiz. According to Advertising Age 2000, The Wiz became the thirteenth maximum identified logo call withinside the USA, and He became simplest a Northeast nearby store and quantity 12 became Pepsi-Cola. He found out advertising and marketing and branding firsthand via a long time of constructing my personal Wiz logo.
After the sale of Nobody Beats The Wiz, He commenced to consciousness on waterfront improvement and shaped SSJ Development in 1997. He commenced via way of means of responding to an RFP from RIOC (Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation), for the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, regarded as “Southpoint”. He became one in all seventy respondents and in opposition to all odds my idea and vison for Southpoint beat out all of the different very hooked up and well-known logo-call improvement companies. Through the years spent on seeking to benefit the “NIMBY’s” acclaim for his huge blended use improvement project, he surely were given a whole training on NYC zoning laws, rules, and regulations. He additionally, very significantly multiplied his community of experts with New York centric knowledge this is worthwhile to him. This waterfront enjoy led him to trademarking the logo call: “The Riviera” and the slogan mark: “Making the world’s waterfront a higher location to stay, paintings, shop, visit & play”. He commenced gathering and assembling parcels of waterfront land in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, and New Jersey. From the East River in Manhattan to the Hudson River in New Jersey and spent the following 15 years of his existence embroiled in residential waterfront improvement, similarly improving his community of experts, and increasing his private enjoy in all factors of residential improvement and production.
Currently he’s running together along with his oldest son Norman and JemRock Organization. JemRock has trademarked the logo call: “CENTRAL” and has additionally trademarked the slogan mark: “Live, Work & Be Well”. The JemRock consciousness is to start with Manhattan residential conversions. The CENTRAL idea is to very efficaciously capitalize on a down NYC marketplace and produce to marketplace what we call: “less costly luxurious flats”. JemRock has assembled a really world-elegance crew of experts that coupled with the aforementioned community of experts articulated earlier, is uniquely located with a pipeline of assets potentialities that completely suit the CENTRAL criteria. CENTRAL might provide less costly luxurious flats to the loads of clients making six figures in step with year, who heretofore ought to in no way have afforded to stay in Manhattan. Rather than advertising and marketing to multi-millionaires the CENTRAL patron is a six-discern earner who became lengthy in the past pushed out of Manhattan to the outer boroughs. He has spent the ultimate 3 plus years very cautiously analyzing, analyzing all of the data, and focusing at the Manhattan residential marketplace. With condo charges presently surging during New York City, He believes, now could be the proper time to strike together along with his CENTRAL idea and capture in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. As he stated: “I really do have an remarkable deal-go with the drift and the pinnacle world-elegance experts on my CENTRAL Core Team. A thoroughly notion out plan to start with release the CENTRAL logo in Manhattan will quickly be visible and extensively marketed, accompanied via way of means of increasing out to numerous different key US states and in the long run to all the high-quality towns worldwide. This can be efficaciously and expeditiously carried out in complete live performance with the CENTRAL Core Team that has been assembled and is in function to strike.” With the development and advertising and marketing expertise he has garnered over many a long time, coupled with the CENTRAL world-elegance crew he has presently assembled, JemRock has a completely vertically integrated, really remarkable crew of New York City precise skilled gamers to execute the CENTRAL imaginative and prescient at each stage from idea-to-completion.