 Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome here to the grand opening of the Skin House here in the Five Points District of Famously Hot Columbia, where you don't get more famously hot than a 4PM business opening on an August Friday. My name is Ryan Coleman. I'm the Economic Development Director, and it is my honor today to welcome our speakers and guest of honor to this event. First of all, we will have Councilwoman Dr. Aditi Bussells making her welcoming remarks on behalf of the City of Columbia. She will be followed by Meredith Covert, Assistant Director of the Five Points Association. And then finally, our guest of honor, Paul and Brooke Gillesi owners, or Julesi, I'm sorry, still working on that. I'm Southern, forgive me, owners of the Skin House. With that, I would like to turn it over to you, Dr. Bussells. Awesome, thank you, Ryan. Hello, everyone. I am Councilman Aditi Bussells. I am your at-large Councilman, and I have the honor of representing Five Points along with the rest of the city. But most importantly, today, I am also a client of Brooke and her other business, The Boutique. So to be here and to be able to support the opening of Skin House means so much to me. I've known of Brooke for many, many years, and I'm always attracted to the energy of people that are outspoken, have big ideas and dreams for our city, and aren't afraid to ruffle a couple feathers to get what they need. And I absolutely love that Brooke had this concept. She brought it to life, and here we are with a space that women, and I'm assuming men, because Paul gets facials too, I'm sure, can come and enjoy all of the great services and the ambiance with their loved ones and friends. And in terms of the grand scheme of things, I think businesses like Skin House really contribute to what city council has been working on, and that is improving the quality of life here in Columbia, having more things to do on the weekends and keeping young people here, and it's great to see so many young people here to support the business. So I wanna take a moment and say congratulations to both of you for your hard work, to your team for putting together such a beautiful event, and we're just really excited to welcome another business to Five Points, a neighborhood that is really flourishing with a combination of different things for people to do for all walks of life, and that's exactly what we had envisioned. So on behalf of the City of Columbia, congratulations to all of you, and I'm very excited to come visit the Skin House. Good afternoon, everybody. My name's Meredith Cover, and I'm the assistant director of the Five Points Association, and I started here just about three months ago in June, and through that time, I've already had an opportunity to welcome so many businesses to the neighborhood, and we feel so lucky to have you guys be a part of our neighborhood, and congratulations to you guys on a beautiful space and a beautiful entrance that is such a warm, welcoming spot for the Five Points neighborhood. So with that, on behalf of the Five Points Association, congratulations, and I will turn the video off. Welcome. Hello, everyone. Thank you all so much for coming. If you know me, you know I'm not keen on public speaking, but I'm gonna make this short and sweet because it's hot, and I'm pretty sure most of you haven't reapplied to your SPF today. I'm so thankful to be in Five Points. You know, we have a business two miles down the street, so it's not ideal to open up another one this close, but we had a vision for social interactive skincare, and Five Points is really a part of that. We just love the vibe. We love the new businesses coming into town, and we wanted to be on the front end of that, and we're so thankful to be here, and so thankful for all of you, and so thankful for our staff who stuck around because this has taken much longer than any of us anticipated it taking, so cheers to that, cheers to y'all. Paul, do you have anything to say? No, you nailed it. We were going back and forth on who was gonna speak all day, and she's not one with words on the mic, but I think you did amazing, so no, there's nothing else to say, so let's get out of this heat. We appreciate everyone being here, and let's get this ribbon cutting started. We got two girls here that are eager to cut some red tape here.