4th Annual Joint Event: Another Great Event

I had not realized it has been so long since I last wrote but we have been so busy here at TCAR with us finishing up with the Joint Event that was on the 27th of August. And it was another really successful event!

The Joint Event is put on by several commercial associations including TCAR, NC-CCIM, TCREW, TRAOBA, IREM BOMA, NAIOP and our newest addition, AAREPNC. Every year the group does a fund raiser with a theme and this year we are pleased to announce we were able to raise $10,000 and an undetermined amount of canned goods for the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle.

This year we celebrated our school spirit by wearing the colors of our choice at Highwoods Properties, Inc and John Hogan's, 3600 Glenwood Ave in Raleigh. Our appreciation to them and the other Gold Sponsors, Shelco and HagerSmith Design.

Over 400 local commercial real estate professionals celebrated their school spirit to the tunes of DJ Joe Bunn and enjoyed a tailgating pig picking done by Lip Service Contemporary Catering. We raffled off over 19 prizes that included a Panthers weekend in Charlotte, U2 Concert tickets, football game tickets, tailgating tents and all kinds of great gift certificates.

"We were pleased and surprised to have raised the amount of money we did this year for the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle" said TCREW and Joint Event Coordinator, Kerry Saunders. If you don't know about the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, they are an organization that believes that hunger is unacceptable and has developed systems that recover, prepare and distribute wholesome, perishable food for the area's poor, hungry, undernourished and homeless. Founded twenty years ago, it is a highly efficient multi-layered approach to combat hunger. For more information on the Interfaith Food Shuttle and how you can be more involved, go to http://www.foodshuttle.org/aboutus.html .

I would also like to list the Silver Sponsors that also made the donation and the Joint Event possible. They are as follows: Allied Barton Security Services, Ambius, Bland Landscaping, Carolina Place, Cary Reconstruction Co,Inc, Code Electric, Inc, Edge Office, Environmental Holdings Group, LLC, Exterior Diagnostic Services, Fifth Third Bank, Graebel, Grandbridge Real Estate Capital, Greenscape, Inc, HighRise Repair, Inc, Heery, Lincoln Harris, MG Capital, NAI Carolantic Realty, Inc, North State Bank, Office Suites PLUS, Phillips Architecture, PPM-Global, Scotties Building Services, Sears Contract Inc, SkySite Aerial Photography, Smith Moore Leatherwood, LLC, Sparkkles Restoration, The Law Offices of Tony Tingen, PLLC, Tri-Properties, Wake County Economic Development and York Properties.

Thank you again to everyone that made it all possible! Special thanks to the other volunteers that were the underdogs of the evening. We look forward to next year!