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2010 Center City Vision Awards

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Living, working (and playing) in Center City has been especially gratifying over the last several years. One of my favorite events is attending the Center City Vision Awards. It's a wonderful evening of celebrating successes from the previous year and an opportunity to look at what's next. Here's more detail from Charlotte Center City Partners' on what to expect this year:

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

The 2010 Center City Vision Awards will recognize and celebrate the contributions of individuals, businesses and organizations that have made the Center City a more vibrant urban core. This year, Charlotte Center City Partners is proud to honor Leon and Sandra Levine with the 2010 Center City Vision Award.

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(Project Update) 2020 Vision Plan Community Workshop Report

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Studiobanks has had the great opportunity to partner with wonderful clients such as Charlotte Center City Partners who truly have their finger on the pulse of our great city. It was refreshing to participate in the 2020 Vision planning workshop last week and see so many members of the community proactively participate and contribute to the continued growth of Charlotte. CCCP did a fantastic job of utilizing social media to make this workshop a success.

More than 400 people gathered on Wednesday, October 21 in person and through a live webcast to share their vision for Charlotte’s 2020 Center City Vision Plan.

It was the first public step in the year-long process to create a year-year blueprint for the growth and development in the study area of Uptown, South End and and other close-in neighborhoods just beyond the I-277 loop.

Charlotte Center City Partners, in collaboration with the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, is working with MIG, INC. to create the public process and the final plan. 300 attended the workshop at the Charlotte Convention Center. Another 100 joined in on-line for a “virtual” workshop on CLT Blog.

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get out of the kitchen and come out for some "pitchin!"

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Our client, Andrew Roby, is hosting the 2nd Annual Pitchin Corn for a Cure Cornhole Tournament benefiting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Studiobanks will have a team there too so come on out and join us!

Saturday, October 17th
12:00 - 6:00 PM

The Village Tavern Restaurant Terrace - SouthPark (map)

Do you think you have the skills to be the champion of the best backyard game of modern times? Are you ready to have a blast while supporting a wonderful cause? If the answer is yes to either of these questions, you are hereby authorized to park the lawnmower, DVR the football game and take a rain check on household chores on Saturday, October 17th! Event Details

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(Project Update) Flowers and Beer - Thanks Center City Partners!

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You know you're having a good week when a personal delivery of flowers and beer shows up at your door on a Tuesday afternoon. We just came out of beta today with the latest release of FindYourCenter.com, the ultimate interactive guide to Charlotte's Center City — Uptown, Midtown and Historic South End.

Thank you Charlotte Center City Partners! We love working with you guys too.

Now everybody, go Find Your Center!

Sagmeister Video on TED.com

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TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has expanded to include topics such as business, culture, arts, science and global issues. TED.com makes the best talks and performances from TED conferencees available to the public, for free. Inspired talks are given by the world's greatest thinkers and doers inlcuding: Al Gore, Bono, J.J. Abrams, Jeff Bezos and Stefan Sagmeister, just to name a few.

You may recall that AIGA Charlotte hosted a wildly successful event with Sagmeister in uptown Charlotte, back in April. Stefan Sagmeister formed the New York based Sagmeister Inc. in 1993 and has since designed for clients as diverse as the Rolling Stones, HBO, and the Guggenheim Museum. Having been nominated five times for the Grammies he finally won one for the Talking Heads boxed set. He also earned practically every important international design award.

Check out his funny and inspirational talk: "Yes, design can make you happy".

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(New Project) Duke Energy

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We get extra excited when we're approached with website projects where one of the primary goals is to push both the design and technology envelope. So when Duke Energy retained us to work on a large internal communications project that requires innovative, cutting-edge design that integrates the latest website technology, we said "Count us in!" We couldn't be happier about working with them and look forward to sharing more with you as the project unfolds!

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(New Project) Crossroads Charlotte

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What course will Charlotte-Mecklenburg chart over the next ten years as we deal with issues of access, inclusion, equity and trust for all residents in the social, political, economic and cultural life of our community? This is a question that I know we are all asking ourselves in one way or another during these uncertain times. This is also THE question Crossroads Charlotte is posing to our community.

What is Crossroads Charlotte? First of all, it’s one of the latest projects we’ve been working on. Studiobanks has been tasked with re-designing the Crossroads Charlotte website in an effort to provide a more dynamic and interactive means for Crossroads to get its message across and provide opportunities for organizations, institutions and individuals to take action in the future of our community. So what EXACTLY IS Crossroads Charlotte?

Started in 2001, Crossroads Charlotte is a large-scale civic engagement initiative designed to examine the possible futures of our community and to enlist residents and organizations to help steer the future of Charlotte-Mecklenburg. This project is a special initiative of Foundation for the Carolinas and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and is managed by the Community Building Initiative.

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(New Project) Summer is Over?

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I cannot believe the Summer has come and gone. Whew, have we been busy! I wanted to give you a quick update on some of the things we've been up to. Sorry I've been so behind in keeping everyone in the loop! We have a lot of projects in the works right now and I'll be able to announce some of the others we're working on in the coming weeks.

First of all, we are just wrapping up the development on a huge project for one of our favorite clients, Muzak. I'll be able to share more once this puppy launches, but I can tell you, this was a real team effort; Banks, Robbie, Will and Michael rocked this one out!

We have several projects that are getting ready to go into development now. We’re pleased with the diverse mix of businesses we have on our plate, because we’ve been able to innovate and try some new, edgy things! We look forward to sharing these with you too, once they're finished.

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We got to sit with the Price's at the Charlotte Center City Vision Awards!

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Charlotte Center City Partners hosted their third annual Vision Awards on April 10th. Basically, this was one big party for over 700 people that honors and celebrates those who've made a significant contribution to the vision and vibrancy of uptown and South End.

First, let me tell you about the best part of the night! Banks and I were delighted to accept an invitation to attend this event, especially since Studiobanks is in South End and I live uptown. And, well, Banks definitely plays a lot uptown—I'm sure all you night-owls have run into him out and about. Anyway, the event was held at the Charlotte Convention Center and started with a cocktail reception outside and then moved into the ballroom.

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Bourbon Boards - Next Big Thing Article

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As you know, we recently launched the Bourbon Boards website. There's a great article in today's Charlotte Observer by Doug Smith about their business, which just opened it's new showroom at Interiors Marketplace (designed by our good friends over at Eye Design). Thought we'd share!

The Old Crow Distillery near Frankfort, Ky., shown in this photo, is being dismantled for its vintage heart pine, brick, limestone and other materials. Charlotteans John Vieregg (from left), Jubal Early and Monte Ritchey bought salvage rights to the 14-building complex and are marketing the reclaimed materials through a South End showroom. Their company, named Bourbon Boards, shares space off South Boulevard with Interiors Marketplace.

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