 Welcome everyone today. My name is Aisha Driggers. I'm with the City of Columbia Office of Business Opportunities. I'm so excited that the rain slacked up for us so that we can enjoy this occasion. Today we congratulate Mr. Shaw on the opening of the Rob Shaw Gallery and Framing. Ribbon cutting ceremonies like this provide the opportunity to celebrate the continued growth of our great city. We've seen a number of businesses open throughout the city this past year and it's exciting to celebrate what that means for our community. It's important that we promote our small businesses to ensure their sustainability as we encourage businesses to locate here. Columbia has a thriving art community and we're excited to support Mr. Shaw and welcome him to the beautiful Inwood Park area. We congratulate you and your staff and we look forward to your success in our community. Unfortunately our mayor couldn't be here but I'm honored to introduce our at-large council member Dr. Bussells. Hi everyone. So good to see so many folks out. I could have walked here. That's how special this neighborhood is to me. I spent a lot of time here with my baby and my husband and my dogs and it's I couldn't be more excited to have Rob leave that other side. I'm just kidding we love West Columbia. But you know cross over the river and come to the capital city. I think that Columbia is very much known for its rich tapestry of art the diversity within the art community and he is just adding to that from a very unique neighborhood perspective. So very excited about that. So I learned a little bit about his business. He started in 2019 and offers more than just art right. We learned and we see the beautiful custom paintings. We see the frame the framing services as well. And really what I really love about Rob is that he started his business as a creative endeavor to really connect with people in our community. And that's what art is about. It's about bringing people together so that everybody can enjoy and create and learn from each other. And I think that this business really epitomizes that. So we are very excited to welcome Rob's gallery to our capital city and the Elmwood neighborhood. And so on behalf of Mayor Daniel Rickman and the entire city council we'd like to congratulate Rob Shaw framing and gallery with the opening of their new location. And we we hope that you have so much success that you expand and grow in this neighborhood. Thanks everybody for coming out. It's an exciting day. You know when I started my business five years ago it was a little scary. You know I remember one night sitting sitting in bed just thinking oh god what have I done. Like you know our customer's gonna come and and see me. And today is we're here to celebrate the opening of this place. But also I want to you know thanks for everybody that supported me over the years. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you know lots of support from the community. So I really appreciate that. So I want to thank all y'all for coming and supporting me all these years. Some individual people I'd love to thank is my mom Liz. She has been here almost every day helping me get ready. Sometimes I call her and ask her for help. Sometimes she just shows up and does whatever I need to you know to get things going. It's tough when you move locations. You know it's it's been a lot of work but we're doing we've got it all already and we're we're here. I don't think Ed Bro is here but he's one of the neighbors down the street. He came almost every day after work and helped me paint walls and stuff and get stuff ready. So you know a lot of the neighbors the neighborhood have been real supportive and come by and say hey to me. So I'm excited about being in the neighborhood for that reason. Everybody's real proud of this neighborhood and it's a great neighborhood. I love it. Valerie my social media person she's out there. She is Valerie. Thank you very much. Rachel my employee she's she had to leave. She had something she had to do this afternoon but she's man you know helping somebody move is just it's it's tough and she was a trooper. She really helped out. Anna Majure a good friend of mine. She's the designer. She helped me just make things look great and it's it's it's such a different space. It's a big space and it's tough you know envisioning how I wanted to be and how I want to look. So Anna was a huge help but thanks to everybody for coming out today and just helping me to continue my journey. You know I'm excited about being here so thank you very much.