 Thank you for joining all of us this afternoon, the City of Portland and the Portland Development Corporation for its 24th annual Business Awards celebration. My name is Julie Viola. I'm the president of the Portland Economic Development Corporation and we in the City of Portland are pleased that you're here to celebrate five fantastic companies this evening. The PDC or the Portland Development Corporation is the commercial lending and granting arm for the City of Portland. I want to just take a moment and I think most of the folks in the committee are here. But when I say your name, maybe if you could just stand up for a moment to be recognized. Our board includes Tim Agnew. Oh, he's here. Yeah, Tim. Thank you, Tim. James Dowd. James, thank you. Blaine Grimes. He's playing there you are. Jeffrey Hickley. The city manager is not here this evening, but he sits on our committee as well. Steve Lovejoy. I know I saw Steve somewhere on my travels this evening. Laura Reading. Yeah, there's Laura. And Brianna Vogue. These are the members of the Portland Development Corporation. I also want to welcome and thank you for attending this evening. Mayor Kate Snyder is here in our midst. There she is. And Councilor Justin Costa and Councilor Nick Mavadonis is here as well. Thank you very much for joining us this evening. Just want to take a quick moment and explain just a little bit about the Portland Development Corporation. We've been in existence since the 1990s when City Manager Bob Ganley formed this group. And we have a revolving loan program that provides loans to businesses here in the city. When they have a gap potentially in bank financing, or maybe they're not financeable for traditional lending. And we also do a lot of work with startups here in the city. Currently we have a portfolio of about three million dollars in outstanding loans, which has leveraged about another 32 million in private investment. And it's also resulted in the creation of about 120 jobs and also been a factor in retaining about another 191. So its impact is significant here in the city. The PDC also administers a brownfield revolving loan fund, which provides loans for cleanup of contaminated properties. And that comes from the U.S. Department of Protection, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, pardon me. In addition, since the inception of the business assistant job grant program in 2012, the Portland Development Committee has granted matching grants for growing startups and businesses. It provides up to $20,000 for the creation of full-time jobs in the low to moderate income sector at $10,000 per job. Through this program, the PDC has helped 44 businesses with over $650,000 in job creation grants, creating 111 jobs. And I know we have some more on our agenda for our December meeting. And the funds for this program are provided from the city's community development block grants. So we have five wonderful awards this evening. And I have the privilege of presenting the first. The 2019 client of the year is Drifter's Wife. The business is also known as Maine and Lowery, and it's owned by Peeta and Orinda Hale. Maine and Lowery borrowed funds from the PDC Commercial Loan Program in 2014 to start a wine shop at 63 Washington Avenue, selling natural wines. And a few years later, the Hale's incorporated into the wine shop a small wine bar that most probably know is the Drifter's Wife, which now serves food. When a larger space opened at 59 Washington Avenue, they moved to a larger space and expanded. And I'm sure most of you are aware in August, the Drifter's Wife was named to the Bon Appétit Hot 10 2018 List of America's Best New Restaurants. The Drifter's Wife is a valuable member of the Portland Foodie Nitch and a great member of our community. Peter is here to receive the award tonight. And Peter, I'd like to congratulate you in receiving this year's Portland Development Corporation Client of the Year Award. So come to it. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. And I think I'm just going to take a picture here. Thank you. Thank you. Would you like to take it, please? I didn't prepare anything, but since my wife and partner, Aurenda, couldn't be here, I know that she would want me to say thank you to Nell Handing, especially who's not here. But the city of Portland was instrumental in helping Maine and Loire and Drifter's Wife become a reality. We moved here with like a couple of suitcases and a baby in Aurenda's belly. And now we have all of you wonderful people that we get to see all the time and sort of nutritious, delicious food and great wines and create new stories. So we'll continue to work really hard and we'll continue to pass the word along that Portland is a wonderful place to raise a family, start a business, plan a garden, etc. Thank you very much for having us here tonight and I hope to see you soon. I'm going to go back to work. Thank you all. Just a little bit to all of them, just a little. So at this point, Councillor Justin Costa will be presenting the next couple of awards and I have the pleasure of introducing Council, I can't say that altogether, City Councilor Justin Costa. He's going to be presenting the Small Business of the Year Award and the Business of the Year Award. Councilor Costa was elected to the City Council in the District 4 in 2014 and was re-elected in 2017 for an additional three-year term. He serves on the Council's Finance Committee, chairs the City's Economic Development Committee and prior to that, he was on the School Board for six years. Please welcome Councilor Costa. Good evening and first and foremost, I want to thank you all for coming this evening to celebrate our business community and some of our most successful businesses in the City of Portland. I just want to begin quickly by saying, if City staff who's in the room would mind standings, we could recognize you, particularly our Economic Development Team, Greg Mitchell, our Director, Laurie Hulia, but I won't do the name thing from up here, but if you all could please stand. It is really the tireless work of our City staff that allows so many City programs and the PDC to be able to function in the manner that they do. It's no secret that these are exciting times for Economic Development in the City of Portland and by many measures we are growing in ways that we haven't seen since the aftermath of the Civil War and the fire that nearly destroyed the entire City of Portland. So these are very exciting times and I will just say personally that this is a very exciting time to have the opportunity to be able to participate in Economic Development. This is now going to be my third consecutive year chairing the Economic Development Committee and we're working very hard in partnership with a lot of people who are in this room tonight to really change the way that we do Economic Development and to make sure that as our City grows it is successful not just for individual businesses but for the community at large. So as we look out over here and we see the incredible development that's taking place with hotels, with the WEX headquarters and the coming development of the Portland Company complex, the Economic Development Strategy for the City is getting ahead of that. We have used tax structures available to us to make sure that that valuation is getting shielded and thereby increasing the school funding that comes into the City of Portland. And at the same time we are using the property tax revenues from this development to pay for new and broad-ranging job skills training programs to expand the opportunities that our Portland Adult Education System offers for people and a whole variety of other things. So these are very exciting times and it's very exciting for me to be able to participate in all of those. But we're here today obviously to talk about a couple of specific businesses and the first award that I'm going to present this evening is the 2019 Small Business of the Year Award to Charlie Mitchell and Justin Alphon from Bayside Bowl. Congratulations. Bayside Bowl is a pretty well-known business now. They opened in 2010 in the Bayside neighborhood and really haven't looked back. They became the anchor for people wanting obviously to get bowling in the City of Portland but also for food, live music and a whole variety of other things. I'm very happy to say that the City has been able to assist in the expansion of Bayside by partnering with Bayside Bowl in a land transaction a few years ago which allowed for the very successful expansion. But Bayside Bowl has been growing by leaps and bounds and it's clearly a major anchor for economic development in the Bayside neighborhood which continues to this day. They are wildly successful. They are now hosting nationally known tournaments and being featured on ESPN and Fox Sports and a variety of national networks. The last thing I will say though is just like so many other businesses that we will hear from this evening and that we're here to honor is that they're a part of our community. Justin and I are friends going back to the first days when each of us started getting involved in politics and public policy. So beyond just being good corporate citizens you are actually good citizens and good people in our community which is always something that's much appreciated. The 2019 Small Business of the Year Award goes to Bayside Bowl and Justin I'm happy to present the award to you my friend. Well I want to thank the City of Portland and the Portland Development Corporation as you heard from Councillor Costa like to call him by his first name I really like that name. Justin you know when we found 58 Alder Street where Bayside is 10 years ago Bayside was a very different place. I think I'm being kind but it was a pretty sleepy neighborhood but we did have some incredible businesses around us. I mean how many people remember all the sauces coming out of Schlatterback Foss. You had G&R DeMillo's and you had businesses sprinkled all over the neighborhood. We did know and Charlie and I had long conversations that we were going to take a chance by moving our business to Bayside and truly Bayside was taking a chance on us. And we were two green entrepreneurs. We had never run a bowling alley. We had never run a bar. We had never run a restaurant and we had never booked a band. But we were ready to take on you know this this just small business that we called Bayside Bowl. And what was incredible even though our business plan was pretty loose was how much the Bayside Neighborhood Association welcomed us and cheered us. And we're our biggest cheerleaders knowing that we needed to be successful because they needed more attention. We needed more attention to this part of the city. We had three visions for Bayside Bowl. Bring bowling back to the peninsula. Many of you might remember that bowling once was on the peninsula in multiple locations. We wanted bowling back on the peninsula. We wanted to ensure that what we built at Bayside was built around community. We wanted to make sure that when people got down there you weren't going to be inundated with screens and neons and this and that you're going to come together to be with friends and to be able to enjoy each other. And finally Charlie's creation which today is trying to be mimicked around the country and bowling alleys was a league a league that we call Bowl Portland. And at the time there are about 200 bowlers there and we wanted a home. We wanted a home of our own. Our start was had plenty of fits and stops. I know that this name is not going to be a name that this room isn't going to know. But Ross Furman owned the building. And Ross wasn't that convinced that Bayside Bowl was the right tenant for his baby. He had been there for a long time at 58 Alder Street. And in fact he wouldn't actually get to a yes. So I kept you know almost begging him and he's like why don't you come up to Eastport. So I drove to Eastport coincidentally where my mom grew up and he finally took me around. I don't know if you ever get a chance to go to Rossport. It is unbelievable what what Mr Furman has up there. But ultimately he agreed to at least us Bayside 58 Alder Street. Charlie and I meanwhile we got in there and I still remember I almost probably still have the email that Charlie wrote me and said we can do it. And I was like what are you talking about. He's like we have two inches to spare. I was like what do you mean 20 is like we need 12 lanes and we have two inches to spare. I was like great. We're ready to go. Our opening night in June of 2010 we were thrilled. We thought we were ready for everything. Again green entrepreneurs. We had no idea what we're doing. And by 8 o'clock we had run out of credit card paper. So we were we had to run to another business. They're like who are you. And we're like can we just borrow credit card paper. So luckily they gave it to us. We quickly realized that Bayside could be really that community space in West Bayside to really bring a lot of people down there get more people on the streets all around every time of the day. And you know regulars kept coming back and back for more. And we were super excited. All of that created an opportunity of a lifetime. What we know Charlie and I talk about almost a Super Bowl for us in the bowling world. When in 2014 we didn't know that the PBA commissioner was in our house but he had come to Bayside Bowl saw the league that we were bowling and Bow Po and saw what he needed so desperately for the PBA music coed teams passion and he said we are going to bring the PBA to Maine little did the players know they were not convinced they were actually quite skeptical they had never been to Maine. But when they showed up in 2015 for the first PBA League Cup they instantly fell in love with our community with our fans with Bayside and we haven't looked back. It was mentioned but you know there is. There are a lot of incredible events in the state of Maine and we're proud to be one of them hosting the PBA. But just think about what is happening around economic development and showcasing Maine when you have 20 plus hours on Fox Sports that's being broadcast all over the world. I mean that's pretty special and we're just proud that we can deliver that for Portland and for the community. After six years Charlie and I knew it was time to expand and so we realized that we were just saying no to too much of the community bowlers business parties events. So we embarked on the expansion for our business in new and exciting ways. Our roof deck facing towards the beautiful sunsets. We found a 1968 Airstream and we said this could be a taco truck and we had no idea how to get on top of our rooftop. But we're like we can do it. And we didn't we're not much gardeners so we thought solar panels would be better for our rooftop gardens. And so we've got 402 beautiful solar panels to produce a lot of energy for a very hard to use business. It transforms our business. It's been incredible to have a business that's now no longer counter cyclical. We used to be we used to love the winter and the darkness because then people came in to bowl but now we love the summertime too. The last thing I'll say is that it's been amazing to watch the community grow around us. We've seen new restaurants new apartments new housing country bars everything around. I mean it's just it's just remarkable and now we're cheering them on to come down and be a part of West Bayside. The steady hand that has really made Bayside Bayside is my business partner Charlie Mitchell. I get to come to these events when I was elected and now I get to come with Charlie and accept these fun things because they're every single day with an unbelievably dedicated staff. And from day one we had one real simple motto that we were going to treat our employees our customers and our vendors like family. And we've done that from this day one and a lot of our first employees are still with us and we are thrilled to be in West Bayside and growing our business. So thank you Councilor Costa. Thank you Greg and the City of Portland for making this a reality for us. Our next award is the 2019 Business of the Year award which this year goes to Certify Inc. Certify was founded in 2008 by Bob Navau and his brother Alan creating world class innovative online expense management software which changed the way organizations manage expenses including travel purchasing invoicing and reporting to name a few. Many of you know that I'm an accountant in my day job so that actually is very exciting stuff to me. The competitively priced subscription does not require a contract which makes these services much more flexible and easy to use. There are companies now in over 100 different countries that use Certify solutions to streamline business processes with Certify's platform now supporting 64 languages and over 140 currencies making it the largest independent travel and expense management company in the world. Currently their headquarters is at 20 York Street although I know that they're actually about to take over the headquarters of my daytime employer right down here on commercial street. So that's an interesting connection but they are headquartered here in Portland, Maine where they have more than 130 employees and they also have an additional location in San Diego. They offer a wide variety of things for their employees, solid medical benefits 401k parking, all of those sorts of things and they have been named one of the best places in Maine to work for now four years in a row. Due to its rapid growth, its position as an industry leader and the footprint that it has made on the Portland employment market, Certify is very deserving of the honor of 2019 business of the year. Congratulations. Who here in the room has done an expense report? Show of hands. All right, we've solved that for you. Automated. Hooray, Certify that's all I need to say I think. So it started in 2008 with a simple idea. Capture your receipts on a mobile phone, get your credit card, create the expense report, voila you're done. And here we sit 12 years later. In fact, I'm sorry, but the numbers here in Portland are correct 130 we have an office in San Diego. But we also today now have offices in 11 cities, including Canada, US, England, Barcelona, Spain, etc. And the big shift for us for the first 10 years was really growing on our own. And it was really an exciting period of time to go from four people above Brute Hub in Portland, Maine to where we are today. But you know, it was really a great vision on the technology and yes, we have great technology. I'm glad you appreciated it. I think accountants around the globe tend to appreciate what we do for them. But it really is about the people. It's about the team that we built here in Maine. It's about the willingness of people to move back to Maine. It's been amazing to see the boomerangers who've left and really are looking for an opportunity to be in the tech space and want to come back to Portland, want to come back to the Maine experience or come up from Boston or come from New York. We even have an employee that he's actually here tonight and I'm going to ask him to stand up. Johnny, can you stand up real quick? This is one of the craziest employees we have. He left San Diego and moved to Portland, Maine from San Diego. Thank you, John. So see, there is hope for this tech scene in Maine and there is hope for this entire lifestyle vision. So it's with a tremendous amount of respect that I accept this award on behalf of the team here today. The team in Portland, yes, we are relocating to auto Europe. If I could undo one decision many years ago, we ran out of office space and we ended up with a second office and a third office. At one point we had four offices and so it's great to bring everybody back under one roof. That'll happen hopefully early to mid next summer and I think with that you'll continue to see the growth of the certify. We love to put our employees first. I think we started out with a very small salary, very few commissions and the basic medical plan. And today I think we're probably one of the most loaded organizations in terms of employee benefits with paid maternity leave, fertility payments, etc. We're all about the employees and trying to give back to them so they can continue to grow the company. I've got one simple mission of my job. I take care of my team. The team takes care of the company. That's what I do. And team, here it is for you. So thanks very much. Congratulations again. My last duty this evening is to introduce a longtime colleague and friend of mine who is going to present the next several awards. I think many of you who are here this evening probably have read the papers and now that we have a new mayor in the city of Portland. Kate Snyder is a dear friend and colleague of mine. Before she ran for mayor, she was an elected member of the school board. Kate and I were colleagues there for five years and in fact served in leadership together. So there was a time when Kate was the chair of the school board and I was the finance chair of the school board. So I've known Kate for some time as have many people throughout the community of Portland. Kate is an exceptional leader and exceptional manager of people and processes. She obviously ran a very successful campaign recently. She carried every precinct in the most recent elections. So that alone is pretty impressive. She was inaugurated just last week. So this is really one of her first major duties that she has on her plate. So on behalf of the Economic Development Committee, on behalf of the rest of the community in the city of Portland, it is my great honor to welcome my friend and colleague, our new mayor, Kate Snyder. Hi, I'm Kate Snyder. Thanks for having me here tonight. I'm so happy to be here. Thank you, Justin, for the intro. I am on day seven of this new role and so far so good. It's been a lot of fun and I feel very honored to have this role and this opportunity within the community. So thank you all for inviting me here this evening and it's great to be here honoring these five businesses tonight. I have the honor of giving away the next two awards. The first is the 2019 Economic Development Achievement Award, which goes to Kevin Bunker and Developers Collaborative. So for the 2019 Economic Development Achievement of the Year Award, we want to celebrate Kevin Bunker and his team for their many contributions to Portland, both with private public partnerships and with redeveloping historic properties. Under Kevin Bunker's leadership, Developers Collaborator based in Portland is a real estate development and management company investing in projects that build community. As founding principal of DC in 2007, Mr. Bunker provides consistent direction regarding smart growth, environmental stability, and sustainability, affordable housing, and innovative design. DC employs a community based approach to planning and building and frequently participates in public-private partnerships to achieve public goals. The developer's collaborative team has years of experience developing and structuring finance, financing for complex projects with a community benefit. DC also works on real estate solutions for some of Maine's most iconic businesses including Jackson Labs and LLV. As previously noted, DC has redeveloped many historic properties into beneficial uses throughout Maine. Examples in Portland include my kids Alma Mater, Nathan Clifford School on Falmouth Street, which was redeveloped into apartments, as well as the Mother House, Sisters of Mercy property in the Deering Center neighborhood, redeveloped into a mix of affordable and market rate rental senior housing. In 2017, DC responded to the city's RFP for the sale and reuse of the former Reed School building and property and was awarded the project. A portion of the property has been redeveloped into a new facility for children's odyssey, which is a preschool for children who have learning challenges, and the rest of the property will be redeveloped into eight residential units. The company is now focused on further redevelopment of the former Sisters of Mercy campus, particularly the former Maine Girls Academy, which was Catherine Macaulay High School. Another example is the private public partnership for DC renovating 66 State Street into an affordable housing project with a lodging house with 38 rooms and 30 units of rental housing, which is very much needed in the city of Portland. So it is my honor to present this award to Kevin Bunker and the developers' collaborative. Thank you. When I got the email that I won this award, I was like, really, me? Us? It's a great honor, but I was kind of surprised, and then I saw the other people who were considered for the award, and I thought, again, really, us? Me? But I'm not going to give it back. I'll take it. So I don't have any remarks prepared, either, but you heard some of the themes. I think we all in the business community here really have a lot of the same feelings about Portland. It's a special place, but in the end, it's really about the people, and one of the first people that I think it's important for me to talk about is a previous winner of this award back in 2009, and I don't know. That's the guy who taught me real estate, Richard Berman, who's here in the audience. Right there. I have to say, though, I think it's probably a lot easier to win this in 2009 because you just had to do one thing, because there was nothing going on in 2009. So he got one project done, and he won the award. But I'm just saying this one may be a little more important, but so I met Richard in, I think, May of 2006, and it was right down the street here at what's now the Gorham Savings Bank building, which is a building that I was fortunate enough to redevelop a couple of years ago. But I met Richard, and it all came full circle, but I was a planning student at the time getting a master's in planning, and I wanted to learn a little bit about real estate, and I walked into this guy's office, and I walked out with a new career, and I wasn't looking for a job. I wasn't doing an informational interview. I just wanted to kind of learn a little bit about it. I'd heard him speak and appreciate his message and wanted to learn a little bit more about it, and he said, you don't want to be a planner, you want to be a developer. Come be a developer with me. And that changed my life and changed the life of my family, and I'm forever grateful for that. He taught me a lot. He taught me the nuts and bolts of real estate, the creativity and the public-private partnerships that you heard referenced in the mayor's remarks was that's Richard. Those are the things that he taught me, and we did this project with Maine Medical Center. One of the first things I ever did in Portland was Crescent Heights. It was Maine's first platinum lead building, and it was first platinum lead multifamily building, right next to the hospital, Maine Medical Center, and the way we always talk about how the legal agreements and the structure is really the most creative part of the project. You think of architecture as a creative profession, but you don't necessarily think of development as a creative profession, but Richard taught me that it was, and he taught me that there was always a way to get something done, and sometimes that's led me to try to seek out the more complicated projects. That's how he did it, and that's kind of how I do it, but I'm forever grateful to what he taught me. But he always worked alone, and I met Laura one day, and Laura's on the, she didn't get to vote for me, she's on the Corporation Board, but I was told she wasn't allowed to vote for me, but she was my first employee, and I met her when she was still a grad student, and I was when I met Richard, and I said, come talk to me when you graduate, because I was meeting a lot of people, a lot of smart people at that time that were looking for jobs, and I didn't have a plan to have a company, so I said, you know, I'm not hiring, but you should call this one or call that one, and I would see these people, the smart ones, the good ones anyway, would show up at my competitors, and they would show up with these great jobs, and I thought, you know what, the next smart one, I'm going to hire them, and Laura was the next smart one I met, and I hired Laura, and that was kind of the beginning, there was a slippery slope of hiring smart people, and Laura and I had the corner of Richard's office, and we just kind of figured it out, and now the company is, I don't know, 15, 16, 17, 18 people, I'm not even quite sure, but we have a development two full-time project managers, Laura's one, Mike in the back is the other, and then a management company that manages what we do, and I never saw myself as someone who was going to build a company, and I never saw myself as someone who wanted to do interesting things, it had a community benefit, and I think we've been able to do that. You know, all those schools and projects that were mentioned are all in different neighborhoods in Portland, and each neighborhood has its own dynamics, and some of them are challenging, and some of them are less so, but they all have, you have to get in and meet the people and learn what the issues are in the neighborhood in order to be successful in Portland, and I started my career doing mostly stuff outside of Portland because I think it was the approach that we had and the skills that we were able to bring to bear were it was a lot easier to compete in a lot of other places, and I guess I maybe wasn't ready for the big time yet of Portland, and to be able to get stuff done here, and now most of my projects are down in Southern Maine, and it's a little more, this is a special award, I have some awards that I've been able to get, we've been recognized for doing things, but this one means a little more, there's a lot to be recognized for this award, and it's really an honor, it's really an honor to be trusted with some of these old historic buildings to do right by them, it's an honor to be in charge of trying to create this operation that continues to do the good things that it's done, and it's been an exciting experience to kind of grow along as the city has come back from the recession and grow along with it, and I'm thrilled to win this award today and certainly thank you all for coming. Congratulations, Kevin. The next award is the 2019 Legacy Award, which will go to Paradigm Window Solutions. This is a business that has been in operation for the last 20 years and has made substantial contributions to the city. Paradigm Window Solutions has been building energy, star-rated premium quality vinyl windows for residential and commercial applications for over 30 years. Not all windows are created equal, a statement Paradigm thrives on. The Paradigm product line was built from the ground up with the intention to fill a market gap in the vinyl window industry at the time to satisfy the diverse climate needs of New England. Their premium quality products are designed and fabricated in Maine and exceed the requirements of the American Architectural Manufacturing Association Gold Label Certification for Integrity and Quality. Paradigm employs 230 people, including many new Mainers from 15 different countries, as well as graduates from area high schools and career and technical education centers and colleges. They offer supplemental health, dental, vision, benefits, company-paid life insurance 401k, holidays, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement. In recent years, Paradigm has partnered with multiple educational and job-seeking-oriented organizations to implement programs to facilitate their career growth. As the workforce began to shift from local high school graduates to an influx in immigrant populations, the company adapted training procedures to support English as a second language employees. So, folks who came speaking a language other than English, thank you for that. Paradigm has a long and valued legacy in the city of Portland, and we're proud to have you here in Portland. Accepting this award this evening is Mark Moran, CEO of Paradigm Window Solutions. Congratulations, Mark. Thank you, Mayor Snyder. I don't think we intended for you to do a pitch for Paradigm Windows, but we do appreciate it. Great job. And we at Paradigm actually do appreciate glass awards. We do a lot with glass ourselves. And this award really goes to the Paradigm team. And if I could ask everybody from Paradigm who's here tonight, please stand up, okay? So, this gives you a sense of who's paying the bar tab tonight, okay? I'd like to start by thanking the city of Portland, Mayor Snyder, the Portland Development Corp for this award. We really value it. We value our connection to Portland. You know, we are all Mainers at Paradigm Windows, and we have, you know, been so involved with Portland. We moved from Riverside to Millican a few years ago. We got your help during that. We have, you know, been through ups and downs with Recession. We, you know, went through trouble, like most in the building products industry, came back much stronger. And we're a very strong company today. We were originally founded by the applicator's building products distribution group who decided they wanted their own proprietary window aimed at the main climate. And it turns out they then sold the Paradigm window business off, and I'm part of the group that acquired Paradigm in 2015. The product is a workhorse. It's a phenomenal product. Energy Star rated in most instances. We can do all kinds of specialty windows. We can do shapes. You want them flanged together. We can do that, special glass. And I just want you to know that that snow last week was actually one of our marketing programs to get you to realize it's time to put those new windows in. Okay. I thank you for recognizing the diversity of our workforce. We actually currently have people from 17 countries speaking 27 different languages in the place. So it's really a, it's a magnet for immigrants that come to the community. You know, we like to think of ourselves as welcoming. We have many programs and many ways of attracting new arrivers at our city, and we really do appreciate them. And we pride ourselves on training and growing and advancing people who come to us from other countries. We are very plugged into the educational programs here in the community. The Maine Quality Center has given us two grants in the last year that helps us train people coming out of high school on how to, you know, use some of the equipment and be able to do the types of, you know, manufacturing activities that we do. We've had a Maine State-approved apprenticeship program. We are partnered with Destination Occupation with the Career Center of Maine, the Portland Adult Ed. We are, we help with a lot of reentry from the local correctional facilities as well. So we're involved with higher vet. We're involved with the Portland Chamber of Commerce. I don't think we could be any more integrated in this community, to be honest with you. So you have allowed us to grow. You have allowed us to continue attracting people to work with us. You have allowed us to sell our product as far north as Caribou, as far west as the western shores of Michigan, as far south as Tennessee. It's a great product. Portland, Maine is a great brand. And I just want to say thank you very much for this award. And it's going to get cold. You need those windows. Thank you. Anyway, at this point, I want to thank everybody for coming out to join us this evening. Congratulations to our five wonderful award winners. And thank everybody for their time. Have a wonderful holiday season. On behalf of the PDC in the city of Portland, thank you for coming out. Congratulations to these great winners. And have a great evening. Thank you.