 All right. Good afternoon everybody. Aisha triggers from the City of Columbia Office of Business opportunities. We're so excited here to be here and welcome Roy to court right and North Main and we're excited about having our grand opening. Small businesses are so important to the city and there's so much history in this building which we'll hear more about. So now I'd like to welcome brother Michael Jacobs for a prayer. That's right. Lord we thank you for this day. We thank you for this gathering. We thank you for this business that you have allowed Roger to open in this area. I pray God that as he work his entrepreneurship in this area that it will be a blessing not only to him but those who are here. I pray that you will put your protective hand around him as he work in this neighborhood and all those who will join him in this business. We thank you now. We give you praise. We give you honor in Jesus name. We pray. Amen. Hey everybody. How y'all doing? First let me say thank you of course to the City of Columbia for this this event and for the ribbon cutting. But when I graduate from high school in 98 and I started hair school I would come past this building literally every day and Dr. Austin he was a dentist out of Orangeburg and he wanted to make this his second location for his dentist office. And every time I stopped he would be on the grass whatever. And I would always ask him can I rent the building to do Harry and he would always say son if you want a building you got to buy it. And this has been going on since 1999 and the building set empty since 1980. So the building never sold and me and April happened to come past it one one week and it was for sale sign in front of the building. So we were just like April called a number. Let's see what's up. We called the number. Got things moving. The city got involved. The OBO office the OBO office got involved. Thank you, Britt. And it just went to I now own the building. And the most beautiful piece of the puzzle is I keep telling people that because of God so many things happen and it just happened to be a full circle moment for me because my mother when we get when I got the building I later realized that this is the office that Dr. Allen used to have and all of the blacks would come here to the doctor's office but they would have to enter the back. They cannot enter the front of this building. They will enter the back and the colored waiting room was on the side where the office is. And I preserved that room. I wanted to make sure that the panel and every state up stayed up in that room. But my mom said that Roy this is the very building that I found out I was pregnant with you in. So I was like okay so maybe this building was really meant for me because this is literally where it all started for me. Literally. So it's just a beautiful a beautiful moment for me for my family for just a community period. Y'all know I'm a Sharon Rock to the day I die. And this is old collab born and raised all day every day. But Councilman Herbert I would love for you to come and join me at the podium. I understand you have something to say. So Roy come over here. So first of all I want to make sure you take a moment to look at all of these people who are out here to support you in all the love. I feel the love and I'm so appreciative for everyone is here but I'm appreciative to you because don't think the city because we ain't really do a whole lot. I mean no you know y'all know I'm pretty honest. But when you miss one thing that he said is building have been empty since when 80 1980 and this is my district and one of the things we want to do is make sure we start using these empty buildings and putting some life in them. And if you were to ask me I really want black people to own the buildings. Okay is that okay for me to say. And so I'm not a shamrock. I'm a raider and there are a few raiders out there. I mean I just gotta say it. I gotta say it. I'm a raider. But for me it's always been critical and one of the reasons why I ran for city council is because this area is changing and I want to make sure that African-American people who've been here all these years have some ownership. So thank you for helping us to reach our goals in this area. Thanks to the staff anything you need. Well I don't even have to tell Roy if he needs something to call because it's if y'all know Roy he don't have a problem calling. He does not have a problem. But anything you need from us. I'm so godly proud for you mom and daddy out. Thank y'all for making him who he is and anything else you need just let me know. I'm so proud. So again congratulations Roy. Welcome to this building. We know it's going to be very successful for you and we wish you continued success. And it's my understanding you're going to have some office space in here as well as well as some community space for after school. Yes. So that's wonderful. That's a great asset to our community. So at this time we would like for you to you and your family to come and cut the revenge.