Our Team

 
Alisha Smith

Alisha Smith / Vice President of Operations/ Partner

Alisha joined the Center Street team at the startup of the company with an expansive scope of property management experience, with almost 20 years in the industry. She started out her career in 2004 as a Leasing Consultant, then quickly worked her way to Assistant Manager, Manager, and most recently prior to Center Street, she was a Regional Manager. This gives her a very broad and thorough understanding of all aspects of property management at every level and helps to ensure smooth day-to-day operations and successful execution of projects.  Alisha's versatile management experience includes overseeing market rate communities, successful lease-ups, properties undergoing renovations, low-income housing, and housing for homeless veterans. Throughout the course of her career at every property she's overseen she's been able to strategize, problem solve, and develop relationships with residents and employees to maintain high occupancy and revenue growth. Alisha has also spent a lot of time developing and training employees to help them be successful in their careers. She's had multiple people under her wing who have moved on to be accomplished managers and regional managers.

Education

  • ARM- Institute of Real Estate Management
 
 
Nicholas McMurtrey

Nicholas McMurtrey / Regional Property Manager

Nicholas has been in Property Management since 2019. He has been with Property Management companies of all sizes. Nicholas has worked on a wide variety of properties that all had unique needs. From properties that are full market, mixed, and 100% LIHTC communities. As a charismatic bilingual person, he has been able to gain confidence quickly from his residents. He has excelled at providing outstanding customer service, focusing on resident retention, increasing revenue goals, while also minimizing delinquency and vacancies.

As a real estate investor himself owning 17 units across 8 different small multifamily properties along the Wasatch Front, he is passionate about multifamily investing. He believes that multifamily investing is the premier avenue for wealth creation due to the ability to increase the value of large (and often leveraged) assets. In the ever-changing real estate market Nicholas has been through different up and down cycles. Nicholas understands the importance of adapting to the market and acting rather than reacting when it comes to managing your property.

Education

  • Utah Real Estate Associate Broker
  • CAM (Certified Apartment Manager) National Apartments Association
 
 
Tom Harris

Tom Harris / CFO/ Partner

Tom currently oversees financial reporting and accounting for all rental and homebuilding operations for multiple real estate companies. Prior to that, Tom spent 11 years with national home builder, first as a Divisional Controller in Nevada, and then as a Regional Controller in Utah. After graduation, Tom spent two years with Arthur Anderson working with their audit division in Salt Lake City.

 
 
Jared McCarty

Jared McCarty / Controller

Jared is the Controller for Center Street, and also does accounting for a local development company. He previously worked for Wells Fargo Bank and has 16 years of financial industry experience. His responsibilities include a variety of accounting, financial reporting, and financial duties.



 
 
Shawn Poor

Yurii Barbakov / Accounting Assistant

Yurii joined Center Street in early 2024 after emigrating from Donetsk and Kyiv, Ukraine. Prior to Center Street, Yurii worked in accounting for Oak Management (a division of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) for 17 years, preparing monthly financial statements and reports, and managing department budgets.