Paint AW Pink

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Part of Addison Whitney culture includes active support of philanthropic endeavors. Breast cancer is an illness that has affected all of us in some way, and we are part of a much larger initiative dedicated to finding a cure.

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we here at AW made donations to BCC Rally and Susan G. Komen for the Cure. As a gift, in return for our donations, we each received a 7-inch hot pink ribbon to be displayed on our desks, cubes or doors. Excitingly, we collected enough money to receive 35 bows. They went up on Friday, October 1, the first day of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

To coincide with day one, we encouraged everyone to wear pink to the office and help to Paint AW Pink. Friday was definitely a pink day as the bows glowed brightly throughout the office, and many of us showed off our pink shirts and dresses.

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The bows stayed up through October, but we will always be part of the fight for a cure.


Ballantyne Turnaround

Remember the phrase, “If you’ve got it, flaunt it?”

Not anymore. Just yards away from our Charlotte location you can find yet another example of business responding to Americans' new appreciation of frugality.

The Ballantyne Resort (owned by Bissell Family of Companies, which developed our Charlotte home, the Ballantyne Corporate Park) has changed its name to The Ballantyne Hotel and Lodge. The transition has been taking place over the past two months.

For those not familiar with the area, the Ballantyne neighborhood has become a who's who of Charlotte's corporate and social elite, and the Resort is one of the best places to meet, golf, and stay in the area.

According to an article in the Charlotte Observer, “The luxury meeting place and golf course has officially changed its name to The Ballantyne Hotel and Lodge after hearing from corporate customers who said the term “resort” carried too much of a high-dollar stigma in today's economic and political climate.”

And who can blame them? After public and congressional backlash from recent corporate retreat /Read more