 to Iron Hill. My name is Chris Voscott. I'm the CEO of the company and I am absolutely honored to be here today to launch Iron Hill Columbia. So we're gonna have a great time tonight. We're gonna have a great time in our run here in Columbia and really look forward to serving the community. I'm gonna introduce the president of the Chamber of Commerce, somebody that you know, and he's gonna say a few words for us. I want to congratulate the team at Iron Hill for this fabulous facility. If you think about what this area looked like five years ago, ten years ago, and you see what it is today, two years ago, it really is cool. But these type of things just don't happen overnight. Creativity takes a vision. So I want to give a big props to the city of Columbia, the mayor, and council for thinking long term about the growth of Columbia. Two, you got to think talking about a great partner is a huge development for all they've done and putting this vision together has been awesome. And Robert and I are talking about it. It takes a while to make all this stuff happen, but also to find great partners. And I think that's what we have here today is a fantastic partnership, a public-private partnership with the city and Hughes and Iron Hill. And so we're thrilled with y'all being here. We're excited that y'all are here. We're welcoming y'all to Columbia. And let's get the pouring on. So I'd like to turn it back over, but thank you again for including us in congratulations. I just wanted to share a couple of comments about Iron Hill. Iron Hill was a kind of a dream and a pet project that became an incredible business. And along the way, this is restaurant number 21, the brewery side of our business, which is led by one of our founders, Mark Ellison, who has the coolest title in the restaurant industry, VP of gear. He partnered with a couple of other guys, Kevin and Kevin, and developed this idea. And it's kind of a culmination for him, but for the organization for us to be now in six states and serving communities. We really look forward to getting to know our customer, getting to know the residents and serving the community. We've been doing it every day, everywhere we go. And we will continue to do that here. The Iron Hill experience is one of great beer, great food, great fun, great relationships. And we look forward to starting some of those tonight and continuing them on. Our relationship with the city thus far started back in 2018 or 19 when this is a vision. And then, of course, we all know what happened for a couple of years and we got delayed. But we're so excited that we all stuck with it. Not only Iron Hill, but the community, but huge development. And here we are on the verge of this blossoming. And we're just excited to be a part of it. So we look forward to serving you all. We look forward to getting to know you and participating in the community. One of the things that's very important to us is that the employees that are here today and the rest of the staff that wasn't scheduled today are managers. They're all residents of the community. We don't bring in people from other parts of the country. These are neighbors, your neighbors. And they're just really proud to serve the community and again, start some new friendships. So we're here. We're ready. We open up to the public tomorrow. We've had a good couple of days. Many of you may have had the opportunity to swing in over the past couple of days. Sorry, it took us a week to, we had to change the date. But those things happen in our industry. And we're just thrilled that we're here and ready to go. Okay. I'd like to ask the mayor to come up and speak for a little bit about where the city is and how we fit into that. Let me turn it over to you. Thank you, Chris. First of all, we got to talk about the history of here. We have Mayor Bob Cogel here. Bob, raise your hands so everybody can see you. And Bob, back when the Bull Street first got discussed about coming out into the public, Bob and the business community and the Chamber of Commerce got together and came up with a plan. So there was a thought through this and it was about retail. It was about residential. It was about office in a mix. And when we envisioned it back then, it's not nearly what it is today, bugs. It's exciting to see how this evolved. And you know, there's been some stumbles, but look at where we are today. And Mark and Chris, thank you for investing here, coming here, picking it. I love that it's number 21. 21 is the derivative of three. Three is the lucky number. So that's a good thing. You know, but also that you've hired 100 people in our community. You know, and you're giving back and I actually liked that you had a delay for a week because I was here a week ago. And I had an opportunity to walk around and when I was in the restaurant business and coming through, I didn't get to buy all the nice, fancy, shiny stuff. I had to build up to it. So it was like a candy store back there, walking around with seeing it. But what was amazing is to walk around and see everybody excited about their future and their job here and ready for this anticipation to open and to have Soda City. Pilsner is their signature beer, which I'm going to buy all of you all a drink today. I'm glad y'all could be here to receive that. But no, we really appreciate your investment, but also your commitment, wanting to know about our community, being involved, including it and your mural. But everything y'all have done, you've really, we should be opening the door to you, but you've opened the door to us to be part of this. And we're excited about it. And I hope that you exceed your expectations and we're excited that you made this investment. And as they say, let's drink some beer.