 everyone. Thank you all for joining us here today. My name's Ryan Coleman. I'm the director of economic development for the city of Columbia, and we appreciate everybody coming out to join us for another wonderful expansion announcement here. It may be a little overcast here in Columbia, South Carolina this afternoon. Things continue to shine bright down here at Hotel Trindle and then Main Street District. It's my pleasure to introduce our speaker lineup for this afternoon. First off, we're gonna have Mr. Matt Pennell, president and CEO of the City Center Partnership. We followed by Councilman Will Brennan, representative for District 3. After him, we'll be Mayor Daniel Brickerman followed by John Shearer, director of Historic Preservation at Historic Columbia. And then finally, our guest of honor today, Mr. Rita Patel and Mr. Marcus Muncie, owners extraordinaire of Hotel Trindle and now the Flutter Wing. With that, I'll turn it over to you, Matt. Welcome to the Main Street District. It's so good to see you all today to celebrate and really to celebrate what Marcus and Rita have meant to the Main Street District over the past years. When they came here and opened up the Hotel Trindle, we didn't really know what to expect. It was something new, something different, something creative, very creative. And it just transformed the Main Street District and expanded the Main Street District off of Main Street proper. We're so excited to continue to grow and continue to use their vast creativity to do what we're going to see today, the Flutter Wing. It is amazing space. I had a preview and just couldn't believe it. And I know my daughter got married last year and stayed at the Hotel Trindle and that was wonderful, but this is more wonderful. So we're just very, very excited about that. And I just wanted to give a special thanks to Rita and Marcus on behalf of the Main Street District and all the property owners and businesses for continuing to do what they do and continuing to challenge us and grow with us. So on that, let me turn it over to Councilman Brennan and thank the City of Columbia and others for everything they can do in this project as well. Councilman. How's everybody doing today? I'd say if Columbia the vibes are great, the ribbon cuttings, it seems like there's one every week. And that is a wonderful fantastic thing. We believe in the city of Columbia and growing our little economy. Behind me is kind of the intersection of old meets new. Cool meets great. So Rita and Marcus, thank you again for taking the risk and investing in our downtown Main Street quarter. It's a wonderful hospitality districts, all of our hospitality districts are vibing right now. We feel so good about that. I want to say a special, special thank you to Daniel Bone and his partner Matthew. Is this your first historic building you've done? You cried a little bit, didn't you? So that is the wonderful story of our Main Street is the rehabilitation and the reuse of the wonderful old historic buildings that that really is the fabric of our history. And it's so wonderful to enjoy it in new ways. I'm sure John's going to give you more pitch on historic development. So with that, I just again, want to say thank you to Daniel Matthew Rita Marcus for believing in Columbia, believing in Main Street. We couldn't do it without you. So thank you so much and mayor it's a beautiful day. And I think Councilman Brennan and he is mayor from Timbs and gotta give him his dues. And this wasn't our city manager. All this would happen if we didn't have a greater staff. She's letting us follow our dreams about building our city. But this is why Columbia is going to be the number one city in South Carolina. It's because people like Rita and Marcus, Daniel is asking for what they believe in and we are messing. And we're excited to be here for this. We're gonna cut the day. Hopefully we'll eat the chicken scene. A lot of us are waiting for it to back up. But this is what it's all about. When you talk about historic preservation, and revert, and I think we will say that kind of coming together, it's because of the people in history and bringing a new life to it. And that's what's so exciting. For those of you who haven't stayed at Hotel Trundle or have guests stay there, the responses of these, I had friends in Lexington here and they couldn't stop talking about it. Just was there last night with them. They were talking about when you invite us back and came to stay in the same hotel. Not only because the staff was so great with accommodations, but they got to experience downtown Columbia, not only during the day, it's also the city that we can put at night, the people walking around and everybody friendly, everybody pushing them, someone including the staff. When we have people make investments like this, and they continue to make investment after investment, we believe in our community. That's why we're going to be successful. And that's why people are coming. We're approaching 16 million visitors coming to our community, 16 million, think about that. It's incredible. But it's because of stories like this. Yeah, it's what it's all about. Let's hear a little bit about this. On behalf of Historic Lummies Executive Director Robin Waits, my fellow staff and our board members, I send a warm welcome to everyone attending today's much-anticipated debut with Flutter Wing, the latest chapter in Main Street's ongoing renaissance. As we will see, today is indeed an auspicious date in our city's history. Next October, we'll mark the 10th anniversary of the United States Department of the Interior placing the Columbia Commercial Historic District, in which we are currently standing in the National Register of Historic Places. This designation marked a milestone in a collaboration between City Center Partnership and Historic Columbia, whose aim was to stimulate reinvestment within the commercial corridor and its surrounds. Inclusion in the National Register allowed owners of historic buildings deemed contributing to Columbia's architectural and cultural evolution to access tax credits and baili bill abatements. And provided their rehabilitation efforts would make and meet federal standards. This designation has proved fruitful with initial projects bringing us such landmark businesses as Mass General Store. The district's footprint has been expanded twice since then, with the first boundary increase occurring seven years ago to this very day. That February 28th involved the inclusion of a property previously considered non contributing due to a 1960s Europe slip covered side that obscured its early 20th century character. Property in question. 1222 1224 Taylor Street. It's better known today and has since 2018 as Hotel Trundle. It's Rita Patel and Marcus Munze. As a creative extension of Hotel Trundle, the Flutter Wing, which officially takes flight today, melts 21st century Panache with the allure of more than 150 years of character embodying an historic building that opened for business in January of 1871. What does this mean for our community? It means the Main Street District offers visitors and locals another genuinely unique, inspired and dare I say, fund destination for downtown Lodgy. It means enhancing our built environment through the rehabilitation of historic finite cultural resources of which we are temporary stewards. It means more jobs. What you see before us is the latest in ongoing transformation in Columbia's built heritage, which is preserved has been preserved rather through 33,334,770 dollars in historic tax credits since 2001. Of that figure, 37% have occurred during the past decade within Main Street's National Register District. That represents not only a preserved past, but a significant and unprecedented investment in our shared future. Please join me in offering heartfelt congratulations to Rita and Marcus on this, the latest incarnation of their investment in Columbia. You will see how their efforts through those of fellow small business centers prove that historic preservation is a key driver in the economic vitality of South Carolina's capital city. The support of our family that's come here and traveled in to see this, the support of our city, unwavering support that provided to us for Daniel and Matthew reaching out, providing this opportunity, paying for it. That was nice to do. And we're really excited for everybody to see this. It's a great addition to Hotel Trundle and it reaches an phenomenal job with the design and I think everybody's really gonna love it. We're gonna just want to say thank you again. I just want to repeat what Marcus said. Thank you all so much for being here and I'm looking out at the crowd and I see so many familiar faces that have always supported us and helped us out over the years and I cannot thank you enough for that. I might start crying. But I want to give my family another shout out because without their support and encouragement, I don't know who would be standing here today, all of our local partners and the city always helping us and just everybody. We've been here kicking and screaming. I've said this so many times and I hope that this helps people realize they don't need to kick and scream. This is a place to stay and settle and create roots for life and they're gonna help us cut the roots.