Charleston office moving to WV Power Park
CRA is pleased to announce the Charleston office will move to its new home at the Appalachian Power Park the beginning of January 2012. The new address of CRA Charleston will be 601 Morris Street. The 6,500 square-feet office space is a renovated warehouse. CRA will keep some of the warehouse feel, like the original brick walls and open ceilings, to give the space a modern, creative atmosphere.
“We really like our Richmond offices and wanted to find a place in Charleston where we could create the same atmosphere. We wanted an open, industrial space,” said Managing Partner Susan Lavenski.
Another plus to the new office is that it is located adjacent to Appalachian Power Park, home to Charleston’s minor league baseball team the West Virginia Power. The main conference room will overlook the field.
“We are all looking forward to the spring, when baseball season starts,” said Lavenski. “We plan to incorporate the games into client and employee events.”
After the renovations are complete and the new office is set up, CRA Charleston plans to host an open house for clients and the public to see the space. The open house is tentatively scheduled for sometime in April.
Read more about the move in the Charleston Daily Mail.
* Photo by Tom Hindman
No Shave November is underway
In its third year, CRA's No Shave November is underway. The premise of the charity fundraiser is simple. Men sign up to grow facial hair throughout the month of November and get donations from people to go to a great cause.
This year's donations will support local SPCA chapters: Whiskers for whiskers. And to spice things up, men can choose to become a member of Team Beard or Team Mustache.
Heartwood: Southwest Virginia’s Artisan Gateway auctioning Henderson guitar
CRA client, Heartwood, located in Abingdon, Va., is conducting a silent auction for a custom Wayne Henderson guitar now through late December. Henderson, a famous Southwest Virginia musician and luthier, handcrafted the guitar specifically for Heartwood.
Proceeds from the silent auction will benefit youth traditional music education programs and the work of The Crooked Road: Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail to preserve and enhance the vibrancy of America’s music throughout Southwest Virginia. The auction will run until 10 p.m. Dec. 31, 2011. Bids are accepted online only at auction.myswva.org. Incremental bids must be at least $100 but no more than $1,000 and also entered through the website. The guitar will be awarded at Heartwood’s New Year’s Eve celebration.
This Henderson guitar is the only one of its kind. Henderson, the 1995 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellow, uses a pocketknife and a few machine tools to create each unique guitar, working daily in his Southwest Virginia shop. This Dreadnought guitar, featuring Brazilian rosewood, is styled after the famous Martin D, a favorite of old time and bluegrass pickers. The waiting list for Henderson’s guitars is in the hundreds, with owners such as Eric Clapton, Doc Watson and Tommy Emmanuel.
CRA is helping with coordinating earned media and collateral materials for the auction, as well as overall branding and marketing for Southwest Virginia; Heartwood: Southwest Virginia's Artisan Gateway; 'Round the Mountain: Southwest Virginia's Artisan Network; and The Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music Trail.