Category: business
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AECCafe.com: “Award-winning LA Architecture Firm Relocates to Carrboro, North Carolina”
December 4, 2017 (Carrboro, NC) – Architect Doug Pierson, AIA, LEED AP, BD+C, and environmental graphics designer Youn Choi — partners in life and in pod architecture + design (pod a+d) — have joined the flurry of businesses relocating to the Triangle region. They’ve moved their architectural firm from Los Angeles to Carrboro, where they’re currently…
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Award-winning L.A. Architecture Firm Relocates to Carrboro, NC
December 5, 2017 (Carrboro, NC) – Architect Doug Pierson, AIA, LEED AP, BD+ (left), and environmental graphics designer Youn Choi (below left) — partners in life and in pod architecture + design (pod a+d) — have joined the flurry of businesses relocating to North Carolina’s Triangle region. They’ve moved their architectural firm from Los Angeles to Carrboro, where they’re currently…
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Blueplate PR Signs Three New Clients
Blueplate PR, a boutique public relations agency in Raleigh, announces three new clients in the architecture and residential development industries: Tonic Design, a multi-award-winning architecture firm in Raleigh; pod architecture + design, an award-winning firm that relocated from Los Angeles to Carrboro; and Modus NC Investments, the design and development group behind “The Saint,” the…
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CUSTOM BUILDER: “Backstory: Playing Both Sides”
A creative duo’s partnership is driven by client needs, site specifics, and school schedules (Photos: Tzu Chen) By Stacey Freed Masonry, glass, metal, concrete … these are the building materials that Vincent “Vinny” Petrarca and Katherine Hogan, AIA, owners of the firms Tonic Design and Tonic Construction, in Raleigh, N.C., favor. “These things last…
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Bluebird Hill Farm Owner Extends Essay Deadline
Aspiring farmers have until August 1 to vie for this small enterprise in North Carolina. June 29, 2017 (Bennett, NC) — Norma Burns, the architect/farmer who intends to gift her 13-acre organic farm in Bennett, North Carolina, to another aspiring small farmer through a convincing essay, has extended the deadline for submissions to August…
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UPDATE: Bluebird Hill Farm Essay Contest Eliminates Age Range for Entries, Defines What “The Farm” Includes
February 13, 2017 (Bennett, NC) — After hearing concerns about the age-range stipulation in Bluebird Hill Farm’s Essay Contest (www.bluebirdhillfarmessaycontest.com) from otherwise qualified candidates, farm owner Norma Burns has decided to eliminate it entirely. Previously, the Eligibility rules for the contest that Burns is holding to give away her 13-acre farm rather than sell it on the…
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WRAL TV: “Couples write essays, not checks, to own Chatham County farm”
CHATHAM COUNTY, N.C. — Couples who dream of living on a small farm will have to write an essay instead of a check to own one Chatham County property. Norma Burns is a widow who lives alone at Bluebird Hill Farm, and giving it the necessary attention has become too much for her to handle. “Everybody…
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NEWS & OBSERVER: “Win this essay contest, get a farm — Bluebird Hill organic farm owner to give it away.”
BY ABBIE BENNETT Want a farm? Brush up on your essay skills. Norma Burns is the owner and operator of Bluebird Hill Farm in Bennett, a small town in Chatham County a little more than an hour west of Raleigh. The farm is 12.88 acres and is USDA-certified organic. And Burns wants to give it…
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A Gift of Good Land: Bluebird Hill Farm Announces Essay Contest for Aspiring Organic Farmers
The owner of the Bennett, NC, farm will award full ownership to the winning couple. Norma Burns, owner and operator of Bluebird Hill Farm in Bennett, NC, is holding a 200-word essay contest to award full ownership of her picturesque, 12.88-acre USDA Certified Organic farm in Bennett, NC, to a couple of aspiring farmers. The…
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Chapel Hill Architect Arielle Condoret Schechter Receives “Best of Houzz” Honors Second Year In A Row
From among remodeling and design professionals throughout North America and around the world. Architect Arielle Condoret Schechter, AIA, of Chapel Hill, NC, has won a “Best Of Houzz 2017” award in the Customer Service category for the second year in a row. Over 40 million monthly users that comprise the Houzz community chose Schechter and the other winners from among more than one…
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