 Hi everybody, thanks for coming. I'm Katie Renfrow with the Five Points Association and we welcome you to our village today to have this awesome announcement from the Boyd Foundation and GroCo and I'm just going to go ahead and kick it off to the mayor to start us. Thank you. It's so exciting to be once again somewhere where we're celebrating and opening investments and people coming together collaboratively to grow our community and we got to continue that. We got to continue as a community to work together to grow Columbia. We are the capital city and we should be the number one city in the state of South Carolina. Our sister cities are being growing and now we have an opportunity. This is one step forward by folks coming together and we could not do this without the Boyd Foundation and Miss Boyd, your vision, your investment in our community, your continue your board and family working to make Columbia better. We just we can't thank you enough. There's not enough accolades to give y'all for what y'all are doing but this shows another investment that will change the face of Columbia. So with that I'd like to ask Will Brennan who is the representative from Five Points to speak as well but this is really an exciting time and we need to embrace this. This is only the beginning folks. I just want everybody to realize this is only the beginning. How about it? How's everybody doing today? It's uh you know we've been at this for for a little bit having wonderful get-togethers but I feel like there's a lot of people here today. That's important. That means something big is happening. There's a lot of energy and the energy is around this wonderful uh investment that's being made. You know a lot of cities in the southeast hang their hat uh having a niche on being innovative in the technology and and uh software world. Well Columbia is about to get into it. We're about to we're about to chase the Rallies, the Chattanooga's, the Tampa's as the best place for innovative and tech. We want to grow our little economy here to be unique and with the help of the Boyd Foundation and the help of this wonderful uh a tech center that um uh Chris somebody's going to come up here and describe what exactly this is. What this hub of innovation is going to do not only for our village here in Five Points but for the entire city. So we're very excited about today uh again this is Boyd and your team. We could not do a lot of things in Columbia without your vision your passion and your love for this city and we appreciate it so much. So uh excited about uh where this is going to take Columbia. Where this is going to take our our growth. We got a lot of talent. I say it all the time. We got a lot of talent in our universities, our our school systems. We want that talent to stay here. We want them to grow with our small businesses. With small business growth comes restaurants, retail, a better quality of life for all of us. So we are very excited today. So I'm not sure who's coming up to describe this wonderful incubator next but uh I'm going to hand it back over to Katie to let her decide y'all. Thanks so much. Chris are you around? Chris you told me you were going to do it. I don't know. Joe is good too. I wasn't expecting that. So thank you everyone for coming and thank you very much to Mrs Boyd and the Boyd Foundation. We're uh we're very grateful for this opportunity. For a long time Columbia's entrepreneurs have been trying to find a place to get together and collaborate and build the next high-tech high-growth company and now thanks to the Boyds we have that location. Chris and I have been for the last year working on three key things. One of them is having that destination. The other is this top of funnel activity. We need to keep founders and entrepreneurs in Columbia. We've got 4,000 people that walk out the door every May and we need to change that and this helps. And then the last piece is programming and so what Chris did to help Durham into this amazing city, this destination for high-tech founders and entrepreneurs, we're going to run that same play here. And thanks to the Boyd we have a nice runway to be able to do that. So thank you for coming and in this space in a few months you're going to have an energy when you walk in this door that you've not seen in Columbia. 100, 150 entrepreneurs solving the world's grand challenges right here. Thanks to the Boyds. Okay now we're going to hear from Mrs. Susan Boyd. I'm very glad to be here. I'm not used to doing this but Donnie and I were both born in Columbia and we have loved being here. It's just been a wonderful place and he loved to work and he works pretty doggone well. And the foundation has been formed and I'm having fun. I don't know much but the other people are working I think. And thanks to George Bailey who runs it and keeps it going and so it's turned into this and it's going to be bigger. And I want to thank all of you and it's really been fun to see what's happening and again I love being in Columbia. There are bigger places but I have certainly had a wonderful time being right here and I look forward to seeing what else happens. Thank you.