 Good morning everybody. Thank you for being here Cromers. Cromers is a family-owned business, been a pillar of the community for 83 years, and here in North Columbia in the Noma district, we are so happy that you're here. Thank you for your investment and your belief in our community. Small businesses like yours, what helps our community thrive. And so on behalf of the NCBA board, we welcome you to the district and thank you for your faithful support in joining the NCBA as well. So we welcome you. Thank you. Good morning. I spent a lot of time telling folks over the years you ain't seen nothing yet. And this morning is an example of that and that is that this area has so much to offer. A lot of folks have been looking at this area and they're still doing it. And we appreciate the family for having faith in us and investing in this area. This is a hotspot and we hope that we have been doing and will continue to do whatever it takes to make you feel at home. On behalf of Mayor Benjamin and the members of City Council, we want to let you know that our interest, our appreciation in your coming here is sincere. And you have a history of commitment. You have a history of providing good service and exceptional products. And so that's what makes this a good day. That is what helps us to keep the grease on the tracks and that is that things are moving. People are coming and they're following you. And so let's make sure that we don't do a misstep with you. It's a significant investment. You've made a change. You've added to profitability in this area. You've added to property values and you're now adding to the quality of life because you have a product and folks don't have to travel that far. And so we thank you, we appreciate it, and we thank the Business Association for working with you. They are our pride and joy and we want to make sure that we support them in every way we can. Thank you. Good morning. All right, let's try that one more time. Good morning. It's a wonderful day in North Columbia. My name is Cecil Hannibal and I bring you greetings from the Eau Claire North Columbia Development Corporation where I serve as the Executive Director. Since 1935, Cromer has been a part of Columbia and I don't want to take anything away from Councilman Davis. He said it all. You've made a significant investment in North Columbia and since 1935, you've been part of this community and we want to thank you for making your new home, North Columbia. So once again, on behalf of my board of the Eau Claire Development Corporation, thank you for being here. You could have been anywhere else, but you chose North Columbia. So thank you. Thank you. Good morning. My name is Cordesia Nelson and I'm here representing the City of Columbia's Office of Business Opportunities and I'm here to welcome the Turner family and Cromer's peanuts, the popcorn, peanut and cotton candy sensation to North Columbia area. As we know, business is at the heart of our success here in the city and we know also that the Office of Business Opportunities, we do our best to make doing business here in the city as attractive and as easy as possible. In the Office of Business Opportunities, we advocate for the needs of small businesses and entrepreneurs by providing networking opportunities, connecting businesses and their owners to resources that may help them run their businesses better and by administering several business financial assistance programs to start up and existing businesses for growth, expansion and retention. Through these efforts, we expect to continue building on the momentum for small businesses that Cromer's has for over 80 years and again, we would like to welcome you to North Columbia and say congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning. I'm Carolette Cromer, Turner. For those of you who don't know me, I am the third generation owner of Cromer's peanuts founded by my grandfather. Standing beside me are my two sons Rob and Chris Turner, fourth generation future owners and somewhere in the audience are Matthias and Nathan who will be fifth generation owners of this wonderful business. I'm proud to continue the legacy that was founded by my grandfather 83 years ago. It's almost hard to believe that we've been around that many years selling the worst in town, but we're very proud of that. My grandfather founded the business as a Lexington farmer selling fruits and vegetables on the farmer's market. Eventually, he decided to go just into peanuts, selling his peanuts under shelter on a simply street. That was at a time where there was another gentleman selling his peanuts and that gentleman would call out all day long. Don't buy Cromer's peanuts, mine are the best. Well, my grandfather decided that day if the other man's were the best, his must be the worst. So he tore off a piece of cardboard from a bag from a box and he wrote on it worst in town. A few weeks later, he guaranteed them to be the worst. Well, my grandfather died in 1970. The business had been around for 35 years. At that time, he had no idea where the business would be this many years later, but we love to tell the story that the guy selling the best eventually went out of business. We don't know what happened to him, but we're still around selling the worst in town. I'm very proud of our business. I want to thank Sabrina for all of you dignitaries who came out today for welcoming us here. We're so proud to be in the North Columbia area. I'm going to allow my sons to tell you a little bit more about our business and about what we're doing here. I'm very proud of them. I thank you all for coming. We're not just peanuts and popcorn. We do a lot of things. So just remember that and come see us and give us your business. And we would love to support you and be a part of your community. Thank you. Good morning. Thank you all for coming here today. So happy that you're here that we are all here in this beautiful building. It was a long road for us to get here. When we started to make the decision of what was going to happen to this business two years ago, our lease was up at our prior location. We thought long and hard about what we were going to do with Gromers and the legacy, the 83-year history. And we decided as a family to double down on this and to try to put Gromers into a location that was really ideal and would be our permanent home for the future. So we began a long search. We looked at a lot of different places. And at the end of the day, this is the ideal location for us. We're so happy to be in the North Main community. Earlwood Park and the local communities here have really embraced us. The location is perfect. We love the view of the trust and everything that's happening in the North Main area, all the redevelopment. So we think this is really just the beginning of the story for this whole neighborhood and what's happening in this whole region. So when we thought about this building, it was really just an empty shell. And we worked with our architects who are here today, Studio 2LR. We have Gretchen Lambert from there who's joining us and our construction firm, our GC, Mashburn Construction, to really kind of come up with this vision. And it took a lot of work. But the idea was a beautiful retail space, space that would bring our production into the retail space. You can see it. You can see our boiled peanuts being produced, our cotton candy room. We also offered tours through here. And we'll hope you guys will take a chance to go through the building itself and look around. But it was a lot of work and we're so happy to be here. So thank you guys for coming. We really appreciate it. I'm going to turn it over to my brother Rob for any additional time. I don't know how to follow those two guys. So I'm going to keep mine fairly brief. And first I want to just thank all of our team back here in the red jackets who you may not be able to see. These are our team members, our Cromer folks. And without them, you know, our boiled peanuts don't get made. And we've got some other colleagues standing over here behind the counter. Our popcorn doesn't get made. Everyone is local. You talk about local jobs and local job creators. This is what it's all about. We support the community. The investment dollars are from locally owned business owners and they stay in the community. We've reinvested here. We're really excited about the neighborhood and what it's going to bring. We believe for not only this growth along North Main, but for the city. I just want to thank all of you guys for coming out here today. This is a really exciting beginning. And as Carolette said, we want to be part of your community here. We've been in town for 80-ish years, but many ways this is a rebirth for us. And we're looking forward to growing out of here. Growth is what we're all about. And all of you guys who are out there, anyone that may be watching on TV, down the road or online, we're your friends. Come visit us and we'll look forward to seeing you guys again soon. So thank you. I'm going to turn it back over to Sabrina for just a few moments. I just have remarks because I know you're going to give the closing ones. Good morning. I cannot begin to tell you what an absolute genuine pleasure it is for me to greet you on behalf of Richmond County Council and my colleagues and all the citizens of Richmond County that we represent. Now keep in mind a lot of what's going on on North Maine started with a collaborative effort with the City of Columbia and Richmond County without any program for streetscaping. We're very strong supporters of the North Columbia Business Association. So we're committed to North Maine and committed to doing whatever we can do to support your efforts here. So feel free to just call on us anytime. And I want you to know I have a very special appreciation for Cromers because as a young teenager, you know, I was an entrepreneur. You know, we'd go to Cromers and we get, you remember those little baskets with the hook on and we'd get little bags of peanuts and we'd go sell them. So that was my beginning of entrepreneurship. So I'll never forget that. As a matter of fact, when I walked in, I was looking for one of those little baskets like I used to carry around in that particular time. Now y'all, that was a few years ago, okay. But again, this is kind of like part of that economic engine we were talking about with this community. And for you to take that risk, to work with us, we cannot begin to tell you how grateful we are. And as I said, we're going to make sure you're successful because if you're not successful, we're not successful. So it depends on us. Thank you.