Stephens Office
Thank you Sivilay Xayasaene, with Gresham Smith, for your referral to a new non-profit client. We have been helping them with several needs that keep growing. Thank you for thinking of us!
Submitted by Anna O'Neal, Wells Fargo Bank
At CREW Charlotte’s October Luncheon on October 9, 2019, Mayor Vi Lyles covered a broad range of topics facing Charlotte including affordable housing, infrastructure, environmental justice, social equity, and the Mayor’s Youth Employment Program. She also reflected on her years in Charlotte and her experience as an African American woman in a leadership position.
Mayor Lyles sat with moderator Stacia Neugent of GreerWalker and spoke with candor about the challenges facing the City and various paths to improve our great City, including reliable transportation, private-public partnerships for affordable housing, and taking reasonable action to combat climate change. She stated, “Charlotte is at its best when we have a dialogue that is about collaboration.”
Finally, the Mayor urged everyone to take action to be involved with the City of Charlotte, beginning with voting in the upcoming elections on November 5. She encouraged the audience to review everyone on the slate, including the City Council, and think about how we can move Charlotte forward.
Redline Design Group
Thank you to Amanda Hibberts of Platinum Coatings NC and Finnessa Sandy for referring a property owner to Redline Design Group for our test-fit floor plan services. We appreciate it!
Telecom Made Simple
Thank you Mary Allison Mitchell, of Tripp Commercial for entrusting one of your special clients to me. They were a pleasure to work with and I am glad I was able to help them with their internet and VoIP needs.
Bennett Pless Structural Engineers
Thanks Dee DeBerry with ATC Group Services for the structural engineering referral!
Nancy Olah Law
Thank you to Juanita Tackett (Indoff) for helping my client with LED lighting for his new medical office. Great job, Juanita – the lighting looks great!
Hopkins Consulting and Review, LLC
Thanks to Zeta Pittman of First National Bank for reaching out to the appraisal review Team Leader on my behalf! Your assistance made the difference on getting me on the tickler list for future review work. Thanks!
(Charlotte, NC, August 2019)… For nearly 25 years, Charlotte-based Development Advisors (DAI) has provided site selection and incentive negotiation expertise to clients worldwide, directly offsetting capital costs while optimizing business locations for maximum profit and competitiveness. Now, to better reflect its considerable experience and growth in the marketplace, DAI is changing its name to Maxis Advisors.
To read the full press release, please click here.
Submitted by Stacia Neugent, GreerWalker
On Tuesday, August 13th, CREW Charlotte hosted a panel on the rebirth of resiliency at Byron’s Southend. The panel featured Dylan Kirk, sustainability coordinator for Mecklenburg County, Kristina Held, partner at Insight Architects, and Zack Wyatt, executive director for Carolina Farm Trust. Emily Buehrer, landscape architect and project manager with Stimmel Associates, served as the moderator.
In a time when there continues to be frequent extreme weather events, designing with the environment in mind has become even more important. Resilient design is the intentional design of buildings, land, communities and regions in response to these vulnerabilities.
One of the topics discussed at the luncheon was the cost associated with “green development”. Kristina confirmed that there are additional costs associated with making sustainable choices, but they are relatively small on a percentage basis. It is also important to keep in mind that this references the monetary costs, but there are many other costs to be considered when making the decisions regarding development. You have to consider the impact to the land being consumed as well as the impact to the communities in which you are developing. The panel discussed that the “urban sprawl” effect is one of the biggest issues impacting the Charlotte region. The impacts of urban sprawl include increased air and water pollution, increased infrastructure impacts and reliance on cars due to longer commutes.
While we may have a ways to go to get to where we need to be, the panelists acknowledged that recognition is the first step and discussions like this luncheon are shedding light on this important topic. Emily concluded the luncheon with a powerful Dr. Seuss quote, “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot. Nothing is going to get better, its not.”
Mecklenburg Paint
Thank you to Juanita Tackett with Indoff Energy Solutions for the beautiful LED lights in our office. We did a whole office retrofit (interior and exterior). The office really lights up at night! What a difference it has made. Juanita was involved in every aspect of the project!