The Annual 2020

presents:

THE ANNUAL

2020

Comprehensive resources for your home and work in Western North Carolina.

FEATURING:

Faces of Enterprise & Faces of Medicine A showcase of local businesses, leaders, professionals, and creatives.

complimentary edition

THE

2020

ANNUAL Comprehensive resources for your home and work in Western North Carolina.

Data appeared in 2019 editions of Capital at Play magazine.

Photography by: Anthony Harden Design by: Productions at Play Bonnie Roberson, Oby Morgan, & Phill Baldwin Copy for Faces by: Emily Glaser Edited by: Fred Mills

Western North Carolina's Free Spirit of Enterprise To learn more visit www.capitalatplay.com

The Annual is a physical manifestation of our promise to serve the business community of Western North Carolina. This second edition represents a year of work in gathering data and information which people want and need in order to be strategic thinkers and participants in our local economy.

While data is one of the most important resources to any business organization, this publication also contains a unique collection of what is arguably the other most critical resource: people. Brands represent organizations. Organizations have operations, and all operations flow from ideas that were once only a twinkle in the eye of a real live human. Without people — for the initial idea of a business, and ultimately for daily application and refinement of that idea — there is no operation, no organization, and no value provided.

Very little can be achieved without the right team of people striving toward a singular set of goals. That is why, in the pages that follow, you’ll see the faces of the most engaged and hard-working individuals in Western NC, and I encourage you to read about these folks and engage with them in person whenever possible.

As stated on the cover, The Annual is designed as a reference guide to data that we think will be relevant to people and businesses in Western NC over the next 12 months. As with the first edition of this publication, we welcome your feedback and encourage you to let us know if you would like to see anything not contained in this edition in future publications. We are always improving, and this second edition is a reflection of your welcome feedback on the first. To complete the thought, I leave you with a phrase that, for some people, is simply a reflection of their motivational spirit. In my case it’s literally the family motto: Onward and Upward.

Oby Morgan Publisher

RESOURCES: Alcohol in Western North Carolina p. 12 Small Local Venues p. 17 Retirement in Western North Carolina p. 26 Unique Museums p. 27 Western North Carolina Tours p. 28 Fun Rentals p. 29 Western North Carolina Real Estate p. 40 Western North Carolina Event Planners p. 44 The State of Manufacturing 2019 p. 54 Healthcare Statistics for Western North Carolina p. 57 Western North Carolina Veterinarians p. 67

FEATURING: Faces of Enterprise p. 2 Faces of Medicine p. 58

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Faces of

Enterprise “WE PROFILE THOSE WHO TAKE THE RISK, those who share that risk, and those who support them, inspiring others to do likewise, while giving back economically and socially to the communities that support us.” Straight from our mission statement—this is at the heart of what we do every month. In light of that mantra, and displayed throughout this edition, you will find Western North Carolina’s Faces of Enterprise (and on p. 58, Faces of Medicine). These are folks like you.

People who live here, raise families here, and ultimately make our communities stronger, better, and more vibrant places to live. If you are a champion of “local” shopping, or if you want to see your dollar go farther in the community—possibly even come back to you through another local transaction— these are the people and businesses you’ll want to patronize.

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Befittingly housed in one of George Vanderbilt’s century-old, pebble-dash cottages in Biltmore Village, Estate Jewelry Ltd. specializes in preowned diamonds and fine jewelry sourced from local owners and estates. The jewelry store showcases pieces of unique provenance, and the second-hand buying results in prices that are much more affordable than comparable items purchased new.

Established in 2006, Estate Jewelry Ltd. focuses on the direct purchase of pre-owned diamonds and jewelry, so the inventory found there is unparalleled in both quality and value.

In its cases, jewelry lovers will find significant estate diamond engagement rings, a wide range of colored gemstone jewelry, diamond stud earrings, and signed, one-of-a-kind designer pieces.

For customers looking to sell their diamonds and fine jewelry, Estate Jewelry Ltd. offers free verbal appraisals in a familiar and friendly setting. After a thorough inspection and diligent price research, the expert team presents their bonafide offer. If accepted, the seller walks out with payment in hand. As Licensed Diamond Brokers, Estate Jewelry Ltd. is permitted to sell on a consignment basis, which typically results in a greater reward for the seller. Any items left on consignment are insured for the agreed upon amount, and payment is made within thirty days of the sale.

With decades of combined experience and a genuine passion for their work, the staff at Estate Jewelry Ltd. provides an enjoyable, educational,

and rewarding experience for every customer.

At the helm is founder Richard Yaffin, a thirdgeneration jeweler who studied gemology through the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) to become a licensed diamond broker. Richard owned and operated a Florida jewelry store, passed down from his father, for 25 years. In retirement Richard moved to Asheville but missed the business; within a few years, he was back at it, this time in an antiques shop in Biltmore Village.

Then, it was a one-man operation; now, thirteen years later, Estate Jewelry Ltd. is a team of five.

Certified GIA Accredited Jewelry Professional (AJP) Stephen Frommel has been with Richard for six years. Originally from Memphis, Stephen manages the evaluation and purchase of jewelry, as well as directing the consignment program.

In 2018 Adam Strauss brought his years of experience managing jewelry stores in New York to the business’ sales team. Pamela Atkinson, an administrative assistant and Asheville native, adds precision and detail to internal operations like bookkeeping and inventory. The business’ most recent addition, Anet Skillin, also an AJP, offers expertise in accounting and tech support.

Together, the team provides a personable and professional experience to buyers and sellers alike.

The experience of browsing a curated selection of pre-owned diamonds and jewelry in a charming cottage is truly one-of-a-kind. Add to that a knowledgeable, friendly staff and a relaxed ambiance, and Estate Jewelry Ltd. is as uniquely special as the timeless pieces it sells.

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The Face of

Modern Architecture

Scott Huebner, Principal Architect

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In Western North Carolina homeowners who crave long-range Blue Ridge vistas must confront the region’s challenging and mountainous terrain.

These steep, sloping sites are uniquely suited to the sleek lines of modern architecture, an approach embraced by the work of Brickstack Architects.

Principal architect Scott Huebner founded his practice in 2011 with the intention of asserting a progressive but regional modernism in Asheville, one that is highly crafted and responsive to the landscape. Throughout his early career in the Pacific Northwest, Scott cultivated a reverence for great architects like Louis Kahn, Mies Van Der Rohe, and Alvar Aalto, while striving to discover and refine his own unique strand of modernism.

The result is a thoroughly-modern architecture, one that is born of the Appalachians and in harmonious contrast to their organicism. Rooted in glass, wood, and steel, Brickstack Architects’ designs capitalize on the challenges of the land, freed from past styles and current trends. Their projects facilitate both contemporary intimacy and architectural splendor.

The modest firm’s work has attracted adventurous clients and critical acclaim.

In 2017 Brickstack Architects received an AIA Honor Award and the Matsumoto Gold Jury Prize for outstanding modern architecture. In 2019 the firm won the Matsumoto Bronze Jury Prize.

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Brandon Ellison

Casey Watkins

Meredith Ellison

The Faces of

Sarah Watkins

Modern Life Insurance

When Brandon Ellison, Casey Watkins, and Brian Pope founded Symmetry Financial Group in 2009, it was with the intention of creating a company where people—agents, staff, and customers alike—are the number one priority. Ten years later, that mission impacts more than 50 staff at its Swannanoa corporate office, over 3,000 agents nationwide, and hundreds of thousands of clients. This unparalleled growth earned the company recognition on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Companies in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.

Through partnerships with over 30 of the nation’s top insurance carriers, Symmetry agents match clients with their best-suited life insurance solution. The company’s most popular offerings include mortgage protection

insurance, term life, and retirement vehicles that help clients maximize savings.

Symmetry Financial Group’s continued mission is evident in its philanthropy: In 2018 the company supported 35 regional nonprofits with more than $347,000. The company also champions employees with initiatives that promote their personal and professional development.

Though Symmetry’s scope is national, its roots remain local. In 2012 the Ellisons and Watkins opened Native Kitchen and Social Pub on the first floor of their headquarters.

Symmetry’s trajectory of advancement will continue in the year ahead with plans to break ground on new facilities at the 42-acre former Beacon Mill site.

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— THIS PAGE (L to R) Dr. Millicent Burke-Sinclair Ed.D, Chief Executive Officer; Tyler Bice, Research and Development Team Leader; Rhonda Oakes, Vice President of Clinical Operations; Sue Ann Hamby, Director of Clinical Operations Support; Paige Wheeler, Major Gifts Officer

The Faces of Trusted Care In an era when healthcare is in flux, one thing is constant: Four Seasons remains an emblematic not-for-profit organization, providing hospice and palliative care services to patients with serious diagnoses, regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay.

Four Seasons was founded 40 years ago by a passionate group of volunteers who aimed to address the community’s lack of hospice care. Since then, the organization has expanded to answer a range of needs across eleven Western North Carolina counties. Through it all, Four Seasons is a persistent vanguard in innovative care, offering contemporary therapies and, through their participation in clinical research projects, advanced treatment options and services to those who need them most.

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Navigating a serious illness can be overwhelming to patients and families alike, but Four Seasons provides customized solutions and support. Whether confronting diagnosis, treatment, or end-of-life, the Four Seasons Care Navigation team provides peace of mind by collaborating with patients as they navigate the healthcare system and connect with community resources.

Four Seasons Home Care offers flexible services, from companionship to individualized care plans, that are adaptable to one’s needs. Others turn to the Elizabeth House at Four Seasons, where an interdisciplinary team provides advanced care and respite within a home-like environment.

Four Seasons specializes in palliative care, which provides a support system for those navigating a serious illness, and

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THIS PAGE (L to R) Maureen Williams, Director of Care Navigation; Mary Jo Powers, Director of Four Seasons Home Care; Emily Carter, Employee Solutions Coordinator; Jeremy Glidden, Volunteer Coordinator; Rikki Hooper, Senior Director of Palliative Care; Dr. Ashley Albers DO, Vice President of Medical Services

hospice care, which brings comfort to patients no longer seeking treatment. Four Seasons’ Bereavement team also supports the family and caregivers as well as the community at large through support groups, counseling, workshops, and retreats. For children and teens, Four Seasons offers Compass, an adolescent grief support program. A part of Compass is Camp Heart Songs, an annual overnight weekend experience.

In 2005, with the founding of the Research and Development department, Four Seasons became one of fewer than five nonprofit organizations in the country to participate in clinical research trials. Four Seasons has conducted more than 40 studies and grant projects to date.

The groundbreaking care at Four Seasons has long earned national accolades. In 2018 Four Seasons Home Care was awarded The Best of Home Care Leader in Excellence Award from Home Care Pulse alongside the Best Employer and Best

Provider Awards of Excellence. In 2019 Four Seasons was chosen to develop and test measures of serious illness care in a two-year grant from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).

The Four Seasons Foundation began in 2016 when community members committed to the Four Seasons mission with the philanthropic resources that are critical to ensuring access to high quality serious illness care for all.

As the organization grows, Four Seasons now provides palliative care to nearly 1,300 patients and hospice care to over 400 patients a day, all the while remaining a grassroots organization embedded in the WNC community. The team of more than 380 staff and 400 volunteers, as well as board members and donors, are committed to serving the community with support and trusted, compassionate care.

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When Laura Webb founded Webb Investment Be it the death of a spouse, divorce, retirement, Services in 1995, it was the result of years of sale of a business, or inheriting a sum of money, experience, her passion for helping people build life’s most challenging emotional transitions a secure financial future, and an intentional can instigate financial obstacles, too. Webb and response to a nearly womanless industry. her team have the experience and specialized Today, only 17% of financial advisors are training to help clients make smart decisions women, and even fewer own the businesses with their money in times when their judgment they built from the ground up*. Where Webb is often compromised. is the minority now, in 1995, she was the Webb continues to work as an advocate for exception. But after working with several women, both in her business and outside of financial advisors across the country, she it. In 2019 the practice hosted the Em-Power recognized she had a different perspective Lunch event on Equal Pay Day, which marks and skill set she could bring to the industry, the 16 months it takes a woman to earn as particularly for women clients. much as a man did the year before. As with Nearly 25 years later, Webb’s all-female, so much of Webb’s work, the Em-Power Lunch all-local team offers a suite of collaborative served to inspire women to embrace their wealth management services for families financial independence and futures. Proceeds and individuals, especially women, including benefited the Women for Women Endowment planning for retirement, investment consulting, Fund, of which Webb is a founding member. It socially responsible investing, and a spectrum was also in 2019 that Webb published articles of other wealth management services. on women, power, and money, and presented The process by which the Webb Investment at Women United and Western Carolina Services team helps clients build and manage Medical Society Women’s Affinity Group on their wealth is comprehensive. They begin by Doing Well While Doing Good, a lecture on building a financial plan based on the client’s socially responsible investing. individual situation, goals, and priorities. Then, In 2020 Webb Investment Services will they make investment recommendations celebrate its 25th anniversary. That’s 25 years based on that plan. They manage assets that of normalizing women talking about money, are in accordance with the goals of the client 25 years of mindfully and sustainably helping and actively further their individualized plan, grow clients’ wealth, and 25 years of helping with a keen eye on risk necessary to meet clients navigate life’s financial challenges. those objectives.

Laura Webb founded Webb Investment With some of the region’s only professionals Services because she thought she could to have undergone Certified Financial build a financial services practice that meant Transitionist® training, Webb Investment something more—she was right.

Services is exceptionally situated to help clients navigate the personal side of financial change. *www.financial-planning.com/slideshow/top-10independent-broker-dealers-by-women-advisors

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investment advisory services are offered through raymond james financial services advisors, inc. certified financial planner boards of standards inc. owns the certification marks cfp®.

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Carrie Martin, FPQP™ Client Relationship Manager Elaina Shuler, Client Service Specialist

Laura Webb, CFP® President and Founder WIS

Faith Doyle, MBA, Financial Advisor Associate

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Alcohol in Western North Carolina EACH SEPTEMBER CAPITAL AT PLAY PUBLISHES OUR ANNUAL ALCOHOL ISSUE, which includes a detailed list of all Western North Carolina breweries, wineries, distilleries, cideries and, this year, kombucha. Among the relevant data points: (A) how many barrels or bottles does it produce, on average, per year, as a measure of size and productivity; and (B) what is the number of full-time and part-time employees. The latter, in the aggregate, serves as a general indicator of how the alcohol industry directly impacts the regional employment outlook, and as you can clearly see from our list as well as the accompanying figures, alcohol is indeed a significant economic driver—and by almost any estimation, it will continue to exert a significant influence upon the area in the future.

Economic Contribution In Asheville, the brewing industry created a total of

2,571 Jobs.

877 jobs in brewery industry activity created or supported another 1,694 jobs in the local economy. For every one job, nearly two more jobs were supported.

Average earnings per direct job in brewery industry activity was over

$ 55 Thousand.

with indirect and induced effects included, the average was estimated at $43K.

In the Asheville metro market, the

Top 5 Industries impacted (by employment) were Breweries, Manufacturing, All Other Crop Farming, Wholesale Trade, Truck Transportation, and All Other Food and Drinking Places.

Labor income associated with brewing activity jobs accounted for

OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY BREWERIES'

Total output or production was an estimated contribution of

$ 934 Million.

2,571 workers were paid $111 million in Labor Income as part of companies' $365 million contribution to the Gross Regional Product in the Asheville MSA.

The primary Breweries Manufacturing Industry saw

$ 111 Million

754% Growth

added to local household spending power.

in employment from 2011-2016, adding over 600 direct jobs in the region.

Statistics from The Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Coalition for Asheville-Buncombe County

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Breweries Because every once in awhile, you just need a chug

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1. Boondocks Brewing Tap Room & Restaurant West Jefferson Barrels Made Per Year: 1,000 Employees FT: 20 PT: 43 boondocksbeer.com 2. Lost Province Brewing Co. Boone Barrels Made Per Year: 830 Employees FT: 21 PT: 29 lostprovince.com 3. Appalachian Mountain Brewery Boone appalachianmountainbrewery.com 4. Booneshine Brewing Co. Boone Barrels Made Per Year: 1,500 Employees FT: 5 PT: 3 booneshine.beer 5. Blowing Rock Brewing Co. Blowing Rock Barrels Made Per Year: 5,000 Employees FT: 18 PT: 37 blowingrockbrewing.com 6. Beech Mountain Brewing Co. Beech Mountain Barrels Made Per Year: 300 Employees FT: 3 PT: 2-6 beechmountainresort.com/mountain/ brewery 7. Kettell Beerworks Banner Elk Barrels Made Per Year: 700 Employees FT: 4 PT: 3 kettellbeerworks.com 8. Mica Town Brewing Marion Barrels Made Per Year: 300 Employees FT: 2 PT: 4 micatownbrewing.com

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9.Yellow Sun Brewing Rutherfordton Barrels Made Per Year: 60 Employees FT: 2 PT: 6 facebook.com/yellowsunbrewingco/ 10. Homeplace Beer Co. Burnsville Barrels Made Per Year: 400 Employees FT: 2 PT: 5 homeplaceBeer.com 11. Hickory Nut Gorge Brewery Chimney Rock hickorynutgorgebrewery.com 12. Triskelion Brewing Co. Hendersonville Barrels Made Per Year: 900 Employees FT: 5 PT: 8 triskelionbrewing.com 13. Southern Appalachian Brewery Hendersonville Barrels Made Per Year: 1,500 Employees FT: 2 PT: 12 sabrewery.com 14. Sanctuary Brewing Hendersonville Barrels Made Per Year: 500 Employees FT: 5 PT: 4 sanctuarybrewco.com 15. Bearwallow Brewing Co. Hendersonville Opening Soon bearwallowbrewing.com 16. Dry Falls Brewing Co. Hendersonville Barrels Made Per Year: 500 Employees FT: 4 PT: 6 dryfallsbrewing.com 17. Guidon Brewing Co. Hendersonville guidonbrewing.com

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18. 12 Bones Brewing Arden Employees FT: 3 PT: 6 12bonesbrewing.com 19. Blue Ghost Brewing Co. Fletcher Barrels Made Per Year: 550 Employees FT: 6 PT: 12 blueghostbrewing.com 20. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Mills River Barrels Made Per Year: 500,000 Employees: 360 sierranevada.com 21. Mad Co Brewing Marshall Barrels Made Per Year: > 200 Employees FT: 2 PT: 3 madisoncountybrewing.com 22. Sideways Farm & Brewery Etowah Barrels Made Per Year: +/- 100 Employees FT: 1 PT: 1 sidewaysfarm.com 23. Oskar Blues Brewery Brevard Barrels Made Per Year: 125,000 Employees FT: 70 PT: 9 oskarblues.com 24. Brevard Brewing Brevard Barrels Made Per Year: 2,000 Employees FT: 2 PT: 5 brevard-brewing.com 25. Ecusta Brewing Co. Pisgah Forest Barrels Made Per Year: 500 Employees FT: 3 PT: 6 ecustabrewing.com 26. BearWaters Brewing Co. Canton

Barrels Made Per Year: 1,000 Employees FT: 10 PT: 2-6. bwbrewing.com 27. Boojum Brewing Waynesville - 2 locations Barrels Made Per Year: 2,500 Employees FT: 10 PT: 25 boojumbrewing.com 28. Frog Level Brewing Co. Waynesville Barrels Made Per Year: 500 Employees FT: 2 PT: 2 froglevelbrewing.com 29. Innovation Brewing Co. Sylva & Dillsboro Barrels Made Per Year: 1,000 Employees FT: 5 PT: 6 innovation-brewing.com 30. Whiteside Brewing Co. Cashiers Barrels Made Per Year: 600 Employees FT: 11 PT: 9 whitesidebrewing.com 31. Satulah Mountain Brewing Co. Highlands Barrels Made Per Year: >500 Employees FT: 2 satulahmountainbrewing.com 32. Currahee Brewing Co. Franklin Barrels Made Per Year: few thousand Employees FT: 5 PT: 2 curraheebrew.com 33. Lazy Hiker Brewing Co. Franklin Barrels Made Per Year: 800 -1,000 Employees FT: 10-15 lazyhikerbrewing.com 34. Mountain Layers Brewing Bryson City mountainlayersbrewingcompany.com

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35. Nantahala Brewing Co. Bryson City Barrels Made Per Year: 5,000 Employees FT: 20+ nantahalabrewing.com 36. Andrews Brewing Co. Andrews Barrels Made Per Year: 150 Employees FT: 1 andrewsbrewing.com 37. Hoppy Trout Brewing Co. Andrews hoppytroutbrewing.com 38. Snowbird Mountains Brewery Andrews snowbirdmountainsbrewery.com 39. Valley River Brewery Murphy & Hayesville - 2 locations Barrels Made Per Year: 300 Employees FT: 4 PT: 4 valleyriverbreweries.com 40. Hayesville Brewing Company Hayesville hayesvillebrewingcompany.com 41. Nocturnal Brewing Company Hayesville nocturnalbrewing.com 42. Lookout Brewing Black Mountain Barrels Made Per Year: 1,000 Employees FT: 4 PT: 3 lookoutbrewing.com 43. Black Mountain Brewing Black Mountain Barrels Made Per Year: 1,000 Employees FT: 1 PT: 6 blackmountainbrewing.com 44. Pisgah Brewing Co. Black Mountain Barrels Made Per Year: 5,000 Employees FT: 10 PT: 6 pisgahbrewing.com 45. Turgua Farmstead Brewery Fairview Barrels Made Per Year: 150 Employees FT: 1 PT: 4 turguabrewing.com 46. Whistle Hop Brewery Fairview Barrels Made Per Year: 500 Employees FT: 4 PT: 10 whistlehop.com 47. Highland Brewing Asheville Barrels Made Per Year: 45-50,000

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Employees FT: 50 PT: 20 highlandbrewing.com 48. Sweeten Creek Brewing Asheville Barrels Made Per Year: 1,200 Employees FT: 6 PT: 11 sweetencreekbrewing.com 49. Hillman Brewing Asheville Barrels Made Per Year: 1,000 Employees FT: 6 PT: 13 hillmanbeer.com 50. French Broad Brewing Co. Asheville Barrels Made Per Year: 250 Employees FT: 4 PT: 4 frenchbroadbrewery.com 51. Catawba Brewing Co. Asheville 2 locations Barrels Made Per Year: 17,000 Employees FT: 23 PT: 37 catawbabrewing.com 52. Cursus Keme Asheville Barrels Made Per Year: 537 Employees FT: 13 PT: 7 cursuskeme.com 53. Hi-Wire Brewing Asheville - 2 locations Barrels Made Per Year: 15,000 Employees FT: 23 PT: 10 hiwirebrewing.com

59. White Labs Asheville Barrels Made Per Year: 25 Employees FT: 20 PT: 12 whitelabs.com

71. Ginger’s Revenge Asheville Barrels Made Per Year: 1,400 Employees FT: 8 PT: 5 gingersrevenge.com

60. DSSØLVR Brewing Company Asheville dssolvr.com

72. Riverside Rhapsody Beer Co. Asheville Employees FT: 2 PT: 1 riversiderhapsody.com

61. Ben’s Brewery Asheville Barrels Made Per Year: 200 Employees FT: 2 PT: 1 benstuneup.com 62. Burial Beer Asheville Barrels Made Per Year: 1,500 Employees FT: 9 PT: 8 burialbeer.com 63. Twin Leaf Brewery Asheville Barrels Made Per Year: 800 Employees FT: 7 PT: 1 twinleafbrewery.com 64. Green Man Brewery Asheville Barrels Made Per Year: 15,000 Employees FT: 15 PT: 15 greenmanbrewery.com 65. Eurisko Beer Company Asheville euriskobeer.com

54. Bhramari Brewhouse Asheville Barrels Made Per Year: 2,200 Employees FT: 20 PT: 27 bhramaribrewing.com

66. Asheville Pizza and Brewing Asheville - 3 locations Barrels Made Per Year: 8,500 Employees FT: 60 PT: 100 ashevillebrewing.com

55. The Collaboratory Asheville collaboratoryavl.com

67. Zebulon Artisan Ales Weaverville zebulonbrewing.com

56. Thirsty Monk Asheville - 2 locations Barrels Made Per Year: 400 Employees FT: 25 PT: 36 monkpub.com

68. Eluvium Brewing Company Weaverville Barrels Made Per Year: 100+ Employees FT: 2 PT: 3 eluviumbrewing.com

57. One World Brewery Asheville - 2 locations Barrels Made Per Year: expect 4,000 Employees: 26 oneworldbrewing.com

69. Blue Mountain Pizza and Brewpub Weaverville Barrels Made Per Year: 140 Employees FT: 1 PT: 1 bluemountainpizza.com

58. Wicked Weed Brewing Asheville - 2 locations & Candler Barrels Made Per Year: 36,000 Employees FT: 135 PT: 85 wickedweedbrewing.com

70. Zillicoah Beer Co. Asheville Barrels Made Per Year: 450 Employees FT: 2 PT: 5 zillicoahbeer.com

73. Wedge Brewing Co. Asheville - 2 locations Barrels Made Per Year: 2,000 Employees FT: 9 PT: 15 wedgebrewing.com 74. New Belgium Brewing Co. Asheville Barrels Made Per Year: 250,000 Employees FT: 130 newbelgium.com 75. Archetype Brewing Asheville - 2 locations Barrels Made Per Year: 1,000 Employees FT: 6 PT: 10 archetypebrewing.com 76. Oyster House Brewing Co. Asheville Barrels Made Per Year: 500 Employees FT: 15 PT: 3 oysterhousebeers.com 77. UpCountry Brewing Asheville Barrels Made Per Year: 600 Employees FT: 10 PT: 20 upcountrybrewing.com 78. All Sevens Brewing Asheville Barrels Made Per Year: 500 Employees FT: 2 PT: 2 allsevensavl.com 79. Fahrenheit Pizza & Brewhouse Asheville

fahrenheitpizzabrew.com

80. Fermented Nonsense Brewing Arden Barrels Made Per Year: <250 Employees: 1

facebook.com/fermentednonsensebrewing/ 81. Mills River Brewery Arden Barrels Made Per Year: 300 Employees PT: 4

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Wineries

A bottle of wine clearly begs to be shared

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1.Banner Elk Winery Banner Elk Bottles Made Per Year: 32,000 Employees FT: 4 PT: 9 bannerelkwinery.com 2. Grandfather Vineyard & Winery Banner Elk Bottles Made Per Year: 60,000 Employees FT: 6 PT: 4 grandfathervineyard.com 3. Linville Falls Winery Newland Bottles Made Per Year: 14,000 Employees FT: 2 PT: 5 linvillefallswinery.com 4. South Creek Vineyards & Winery Nebo Bottles Made Per Year: 9-12,000 Volunteers Only southcreekwinery.com

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Employees FT: 3 PT: 2 russianchapelhills.com 9. Point Lookout Vineyards Hendersonville pointlookoutvineyards.com 10. Burntshirt Vineyards Hendersonville Bottles Made Per Year: 48-60,000 Employees FT: 19 PT: 31 burntshirtvineyards.com 11. Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards Hendersonville Bottles Made Per Year: 72,000 Employees PT: 16 saintpaulmountainvineyards.com 12. Bee & Bramble Fine Meads Fairview Bottles Made Per Year: 9,600 Employees FT: 1 beeandbramble.com

5. Parker-Binns Vineyard Mill Spring Bottles Made Per Year: 15,000 Employees FT: 4 PT: 1 parker-binnsvineyard.com

13. Biltmore Winery Asheville Bottles Made Per Year: 1,800,000 Employees FT: 22 PT: 6 biltmore.com

6. Overmountain Vineyards Tryon Bottles Made Per Year: 25,000 Employees FT: 2 PT: 5 overmountainvineyards.com

14. plÄ&#x201C;b urban winery Asheville Bottles Made Per Year: 20,000 Employees FT: 4 PT: 1 pleburbanwinery.com

7. Mountain Brook Vineyards Tryon Bottles Made Per Year: 4,800 Employees FT: 1 PT: 5 mountainbrookvineyards.com

15. Fox Hill Meadery Marshall Bottles Made Per Year: 5,000 Employees FT: 1 foxhillmead.com

8. Russian Chapel Hills Winery Columbus Bottles Made Per Year: 50,000

16. Longleaf Vineyard Marshall longleafvineyard.com

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17.Fontaine Vineyards Leicester Does not process grapes on the premises- vineyards only. fontainevineyards.com 18. Addison Farms Vineyard Leicester Bottles Made Per Year: 10,000 Employees PT: 5 more during harvest addisonfarms.net

25. Valley River Vineyards Murphy Wine Made Per Year: 400 gallons valleyrivervineyards.com 26. Nottely River Valley Vineyards Murphy Bottles Made Per Year: 10,000 Employees PT: 2 24 during harvest nottelywine.com

19. B&C Winery Maggie Valley bcwinerync.com 20. Deep Creek Winery Bryson City Bottles Made Per Year: 1,000 Employees FT: 2 deepcreekwinery.com 21. Eagle Fork Vineyards Hayesville Bottles Made Per Year: 8,000 Employees FT: 3 PT: 3 eagleforkvineyards.com 22. FernCrest Winery Andrews Bottles Made Per Year: 4,200 Employees FT: 2 PT: 1 ferncrestwinery.com 23. Calaboose Cellars Andrews Bottles Made Per Year: 6,000 Employees PT: 1 calaboosecellars.com 24. Cherokee Cellars Winery Murphy Bottles Made Per Year: 6,000 Employees FT: 2 PT: 1 cherokeecellars.com

2018 Western North Carolina breweries, wineries, and distilleries collectively accounted for an estimated

1,895 Jobs in area counties.

This employment was

281% above the national average in 2018, with employment representing nearly

$91 million in earnings.

Research provided by the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Heidi Reiber

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Cideries, Distilleries, & Kombucha Thunder Road is no longer just for bootleggers

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1. Black Mountain Ciderworks & Meadery Black Mountain Barrels Made Per Year: 1,000 Employees FT: 2 PT: 1 blackmountainciderworks.com 2. Daidala Ciders Asheville daidalaciders.com 3. Urban Orchard Cider Co. Asheville - 2 locations Barrels Made Per Year: 968 Employees FT: 10 PT: 6 urbanorchardcider.com 4. Noble Cider Asheville Barrels Made Per Year: 2,500 - 3,000 Employees FT: 6 PT: 3 Now with hard cider spritzers noblecider.com 5. Bold Rock Hard Cider Mills River Barrels Per Year (at full capacity): 600,000 case equivalents Employees: 100 across the East Now with hard seltzer water boldrock.com

6. Flat Rock Ciderworks Hendersonville Employees FT: 1 PT: 2 flatrockciderworks.com 7. Appalachian Ridge Artisan Hard Cider Hendersonville Employees PT: 5 facebook.com

1. Blue Ridge Distilling Co. Inc. Bostic Bottles Made Per Year: 102,000 Whiskey (Defiant Whisky) Employees FT: 5 PT: 1 defiantwhisky.com 2. Oak & Grist Distilling Co. Black Mountain Bottles Made Per Year: 2,000 Gin Gin & Whisky Employees FT: 2 oakandgrist.com 3. Asheville Distilling Co. Asheville Bottles Made Per Year: 300K Whiskey (Troy & Sons) Employees FT: 5 PT: 2 ashevilledistilling.com

The liquor marketplace is controlled by the state government, and as a result there are

170 local ABC boards in North Carolina.

p t : pa rt - t i m e

f t : f u l l- t i m e

Rum & Gin Employees FT: 4 PT: 1 hhdistillery.com

4. Howling Moon Distillery Asheville Bottles Made Per Year: 20,000 Moonshine Employees FT: 3 howlingmoonshine.com

9. Benâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s American Sake Asheville Sake benstuneup.com

5. The Chemist Asheville Gin & Brandy Employees FT: 6 chemistspirits.com 6. Dalton Distillery Asheville Bottles Made Per Year: 3,000+ Rum & Agave Vodka Employees FT: 3 PT: 2 dalton-distillery.com 7. Eda Rhyne Distillery Asheville Bottles Made Per Year: 20,000 Herbal liquors and other spirits Employees FT: 2 PT: 1 edarhyne.com

10. Elevated Mountain Distilling Company Maggie Valley Bottles Made Per Year: 30,000+ Whiskey, Moonshine, & Vodka Employees FT: 2 PT: 7 elevatedmountain.com

1. Buchi Kombucha Marshall drinkbuchi.com 2. Shanti Elixirs Weaverville Jun shanthielixirs.com

8. Cultivated Cocktails Formerly H&H Distillery

2 locations Asheville Cultivated Cocktails Bar Downtown Bottles Made Per Year: 10,000

3. Booda Kombucha Arden Bottles Made Per Year: 20,000 Employees FT: 2 PT: 1 boodakombucha.com

Over the last 10 years, employment in breweries, wineries, and distilleries grew

887%

Compared to

in Western North Carolina

119% in the nation,

Research provided by the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Heidi Reiber

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Small Local Venues Catch a music show, play, improv, poetry reading, or other event at these Western North Carolina locations.

> >archetype

brewing

> >asheville dispensary

265 Haywood Rd Asheville, NC

919 Haywood St Suite 111 Asheville, NC

174 Broadway St Asheville, NC

avldispensary.com

archetypebrewing.com

> >the

> >the

burger bar

723 Haywood Rd Asheville, NC

1 Craven St Asheville, NC

> >the

theblackcloudavl.com

odditorium

> >boiler

1045 Haywood Rd Asheville, NC

theatre

> >the

bywater.bar

> >fleetwood ' s

> >crow &

496 Haywood Rd Asheville, NC

quill

thecrowandquill.com

beauty

> >double

crown

375 Haywood Rd Asheville, NC

28 Broadway St Asheville, NC

610 Haywood Rd Asheville, NC firestorm.coop

> >lazy

diamond

4 Woodfin St Asheville, NC facebook.com

> >little

jumbo

241 Broadway St Asheville, NC

shakey ' s

> >ole

790 Riverside Dr Asheville, NC oleshakeys.com

> >one

106 N Lexington Ave Asheville, NC

fleetwoodschapel.com

academy

bywater

796 Riverside Drive Asheville, NC

themagnetictheatre.org

books

littlejumbobar.com

boilerroomasheville.com

375 Depot St Asheville, NC

> >asheville

room

11 Grove St Asheville, NC

ashevilleodditorium.com

> >magnetic

black cloud

> >firestorm

thedoublecrown.com

world brewing

10 Patton Ave Asheville, NC

> >thomas house

wolfe

52 N Market St Asheville, NC wolfememorial.com

> >the

boone saloon

489 W King St Boone, NC boonesaloon.com

> >ransom

pub

747 W King St Boone, NC ransomboone.com

> >the

strand

@

main

38 N Main St Waynesville, NC 38main.com

> >artisan rock

of flat

520 Haywood Rd Asheville, NC

5 Highland Park Rd East Flat Rock, NC

oneworldbrewing.com

flatrockartisan.com

> >sly

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grog lounge

271 Haywood St Asheville, NC slygroglounge.com

avlbeautyacademy.com

CREATIVE INDUSTRY SALES Sales are a strong indicator of output from industry, and our local Creative Industry means big business.

$1.2 Billion

In the city of Asheville up 9% from 2014 to 2017.

County $1.4 Billion InupBuncombe 7.5% from 2014 to 2017.

*Creativity Vitality Suite June 2019 Report based on 2017 findings - Data card provided by Wendy Whitson

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It all began with a well-worn Rolodex.

It was 1972, and First Call For Help was a new information and referral call center serving Buncombe County. Those who answered the calls from the offices of United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County would thumb through the cards, gathering details in order to connect the person on the line to the best resource for their needs.

In 2019 things look a little different. Computers have replaced the Rolodex. Certified specialists answer calls that were once handled by volunteers. And, since joining the NC 2-1-1 network, United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County is now able to serve the people of 16 western North Carolina counties. But one thing hasn’t changed: Those in need can 18

still call this service 24/7 to find the resources they need to remedy most life situations.

With access to a comprehensive, statewide database and strong community relationships, 2-1-1 community resource specialists help callers navigate their next steps with information like phone numbers and hours of operation, as well as important details like what to bring, qualifications, and key people to ask for. In an era when data is more readily available than ever, the center also provides something Google or Siri can’t: a human connection. There is always a real, live, local person at the end of the line.

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Our local call center is not just a support system for those in need. Emergency responders, social workers, friends, and family can call on behalf of those they serve or love as well.

Even business owners can turn to the service: HR can refer an employee experiencing difficulties to 2-1-1; call for questions like how to find local programs to support your employees’ health; or simply provide NC 2-1-1 brochures to your team.

One of two NC 2-1-1 call centers, the Asheville location recently received its fourth consecutive, five-year accreditation from AIRS, the organization that sets and reviews information and referral call center standards nationwide.

Working closely with NC Emergency Management, NC 2-1-1’s response efforts in recent back-to-back hurricanes earned the organization laudation from Governor Roy Cooper,

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This fall United Way’s NC 2-1-1 will work with the NC Department of Health and Human Services, the Foundation for Health Leadership and Innovation, Expound Decision Systems, and Unite Us to implement the first statewide coordinated care network. NCCARE360 unites healthcare and human services organizations with a shared technology platform, allowing for a coordinated, community-oriented, person-centered approach for delivering care in North Carolina.

What started with a Rolodex is now WNC’s comprehensive, nationally-recognized resource for guidance and solutions.

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Since Warren Fluharty founded his business, Warren Fluharty Designs, 45 years ago, the interior design firm has become an authority on high-end design in Western North Carolina. The company, formerly known as Inside Ltd., Lush Life Home, and Structure, encompasses three distinct divisions: a showroom, interior design, and staging for high-end residential properties.

The Warren Fluharty Designs showroom is home to an array of sophisticated samples hand-picked by Fluharty. Because he deals exclusively in samples, Fluharty is able to sell the pieces, like upholstered furniture, case goods, exotic accessories, and art, at wholesale prices. Shop manager Adam King, who’s

worked and trained with Fluharty for 12 years, and Bengal shop cat Nina are always around to help customers choose the best pieces for their homes.

When it comes to Fluharty’s design customers, he does not order from catalogues or from a furniture market; instead, he cherry picks each piece in-person to ensure the pieces are right for the client. Fluharty’s knack for interior design and his showroom, one of the few that carries the refined furnishings of high-end homes, has garnered the attention of the region’s prominent brokers, who increasingly tap the firm to help with staging multimillion dollar residential properties.

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Smart Personal Investing White Oak Financial Management, Inc. is in the business of helping people realize their goals. For 15 years, the firm has helped clients manage their investments and retirement income responsibly and constructively to build and maintain the life they want.

It began in 2003, when the founders opened White Oak determined to employ a proven technical analysis system that would allow them to better advise their clients on both what to buy and sell and when to do so.

It’s that system that still defines discretionary investment management at White Oak today, providing an accurate pictorial representation of the current markets by

charting price movement, rather than relying on daily financial and political news.

With nearly 40 years’ experience in the financial services industry, the White Oak team offers care and expertise in financial products and investments with no minimum required account size or product requirements. Their services are personalized and include knowledgeable, multifaceted financial guidance, specializing in retirement income planning in both the accumulation and income phases. They offer a pet-friendly, warm, and welcoming office environment. With authenticity, experience, and compassion, White Oak helps their clients live well.

white oak financial management, inc.

1270 hendersonville rd, #4, asheville 28803 - 828.274.7844 - whiteoakfinancialmanagement.com

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When Henry Colton founded his solo life insurance firm in 1950, he was a former WWII Naval Aviator with an engineering degree from Yale and a law degree from Chapel Hill; but one of his greatest achievements would prove to be the business that bears his name. Colton Groome & Company has since evolved into a multidisciplinary wealth management firm offering a range of services, including financial planning, advisory, insurance planning, trust services, and corporate retirement planning. As independent advisors, the firm works only for its clients, prioritizing their needs in order to identify and initiate strategies to achieve their goals.

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Human Resources departments with intuitive and personalized plans. Colton Groome combines knowledge, professionalism, technology, and ingenuity to provide national resources with local accountability and delivery.

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Approaching its 70th year, Colton Groome & Company remains one of WNC’s oldest independent financial planning firms, a feat accomplished through the concierge-level service, adaptive custom plans, and precision and thoroughness that continue to define the firm today.

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Retirement in Western North Carolina Facilities offer active lifestyles, top-notch amenities, and much more.

ECONOMIC IMPACT AND LOCAL GROWTH of Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) in North Carolina FROM

1.5

The senior population in North Carolina is projected to increase

MILLION

from 2014 to 2034

2.5

TO

68%

By 2034, CCRCs are projected to employ

MILLION

In

2014

there were

18,961

residents living in the CCRCs in North Carolina.

By

29,752 WORKERS

2034

they estimate

35,381

residents will be living in the CCRCs in North Carolina.

Source: Appold, Johnson, Parnell (September 2015). “Market Needs and Economic Impact of Continuing Care Retirement Communities in North Carolina.”

Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

CCRCs’ total estimated economic impact on North Carolina’s economy in 2014 was

By 2034, CCRCs’ total estimated economic impact is projected to be

1.7 Billion 3.2 Billion ** Source: Appold, Johnson, Parnell (September 2015). “Market Needs and Economic Impact of Continuing Care Retirement Communities in North Carolina.” Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

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National Assisted Living Gender Breakdown

71%

29%

FEMALE

MALE

Source: National Center for Assisted Living

Unique Museums Before bundling up for a trip to a museum, it would be wise to call or check out its website for directions, hours, and admission charge (when applicable; many of these are free to visit). Here is a listing of some of our favorite Western North Carolina museums and other spots of interest.

> >asheville

pinball museum

> >nc

western archives

1 Battle Square, 1B, Asheville, NC 828-776-5671 ashevillepinball.com

176 Riceville Rd, Asheville, NC 828-296-7230 archives.ncdcr.gov

> >black

> >wnc

120 College St, Asheville, NC 828-350-8484 blackmountancollege.org

1340 E Gilbert St, Hendersonville, NC 828-698-2482 westernnorthcarolinaairmuseum.com

> >asheville

> >fly

mountain college museum

radio museum

A-B Tech, 315 Elm Building, 283 Victoria Rd, Asheville, NC 504-256-5796 avlradiomuseum.org

> >french

broad chocolate

museum

air museum

fishing museum of the southern appalachians 210 Main St, Bryson City, NC 828-488-3681 flyfishingmuseum.org

> >appalachian

pinball museum

> >joshua warren’s asheville mystery museum Basement of the Masonic Temple 80 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 828-318-8579 ashevillemystery.com

> >the

aluminum tree and aesthetically challenged seasonal ornament museum & research center Transylvania Heritage Museum 189 West Main St, Brevard, NC transylvaniaheritage.org/content/aluminum-christmas-tree-museum

> >the

moogseum

56 Broadway St, Asheville NC moogseum.org

538 N Main St, Hendersonville, NC 828-702-9277 visithendersonvillenc.org/businesses/appalachian-pinball-museum

> >swannanoa

car museum at grovewood village

> >wheels

111 Grovewood Rd, Asheville, NC 828-253-7651 grovewood.com/antique-car-museum

through time transportation museum

> >smith-mcdowell

2 Vintage Ln, Maggie Valley, NC 828-926-6266 wheelsthroughtime.com

283 Victoria Rd, Asheville, NC wnchistory.org

821 Riverside Dr, Suite 199, Asheville, NC frenchbroadchocolates.com

> >antique

> >american

museum of the

house cat 4704 US-441, Sylva, NC 828-476-9376 catman2.org

> >museum

of the cherokee indian 589 Tsali Blvd, Cherokee, NC 828-497-3481 cherokeemuseum.org

mountains trains museum 100 Greenlee St, Bryson City, NC 828-488-5200 gsmr.com/smoky-mountain-trains-museum

> >thomas

223 W State St, Black Mountain, NC 828-669-9566 history.swannanoavalleymuseum.org

house museum (historic museum)

> >asheville

> >smoky

wolfe memorial

52 N. Market St, Asheville, NC wolfememorial.com

valley museum

museum of science

43 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC 828-254-7162 ashevillescience.org

> >wnc

military history museum

21 E. Main St, Brevard, NC 828-884-2141 wncmilitaryhistorymuseum.com

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Western North Carolina Tours Tours aren’t just for tourists - find out more about where you live!

FOOD TOURS Eating Asheville 828-489-3266 eatingasheville.com Asheville Food Tours 828-243-7401 ashevillefoodtours.com Taste Carolina Gourmet Food Tours: Asheville Downtown Eats & Drinks Tour 919-237-2254 tastecarolina.net/asheville Creative Mountain Food Tours (Black Mountain) info@cmfoodtours.com creativemountainfoodtours.com Asheville Farm To Table Tours

Guided farm tours conducted by the farmers

828-606-9553 ashevillefarmtotabletours.com

ALCOHOL TOURS

GENERAL TOURS Asheville Detours

Themed scavenger hunts in downtown Asheville

828-919-2355 ashevilledetours.com

Asheville By Foot

Walking tours of Downtown, Biltmore Village, and Montford district

828-407-0435 ashevillebyfoottours.com

HAUNTED TOURS Haunted Asheville

Presented by ghost hunter Joshua P. Warren

828-318-8579 hauntedasheville.com Dark Ride Tours

Take the tours in a reconditioned hearse

828-747-9280 facebook.com/darkridetours Ghost Hunters of Asheville Tours

Asheville Rooftop Bar Tours

Interactive tours of Montford & Black Mountain using paranormal gear/technology

828-774-7785 ashevillerooftopbartours.com

828-424-1089 ghosthuntersofasheville.com

BREW-ed Brewery & History Walking Tours 828-278-9255 brew-ed.com/ashevillebrewerytours Asheville Brews Cruise 828-545-5181 ashevillebrewscruise.com Asheville Brewery Tours 828-233-5006 ashevillebrewerytours.com 28

SPECIALTY & THEMED TOURS No Taste Like Home Food foraging in the wild

828-209-8599 notastelikehome.org Hood Huggers

African-American history & art

828-275-5305 hoodhuggers.com

Vagabond Vistas Photography

Photographer David Simchock hosts photography tours and workshops

828-216-6457 facebook.com/VagabondVistasPhotoTours/ Asheville Photo Tours

Nature tours that involve light hiking

828-352-1115 ashevillephoto.tours Herstory Asheville

“NOT ON FOOT” TOURS Leap Frog Tours

Customized excursions throughout WNC, ranging from brewery/ distillery visits to outdoor yoga sessions to CBD/hemp experiences to haunted locations; new themes added on a regular basis

828-246-6777 leapfrogtours.com/tours

Downtown Asheville walking tour involving history and stories of women who helped shape the city

Tukit Tour Co.

828-423-3819 yelp.com/biz/herstory-asheville-asheville

828-712-1800 tukittourco.com

Guided, themed tours of Asheville via a 3-wheeled, 6-seat tuk vehicle

LaZoom Tours AVL Lit Map

Multimedia walking tour involving Asheville’s literary history

Sightseeing via the purple LaZoom bus, featuring comedy, music, and occasionally beer

828-338-8943 avllitmap.com

828-225-6932 lazoomtours.com

Go! Running Tours

Moving Sidewalk Tours

Themed tours, ranging from 5K to 15K, of Asheville and the region

Guided tour of downtown Asheville via Segway

gorunningtours.com/p/usa/asheville/

828-449-8080 movingsidewalktours.com

Asheville Art Studio Tours

Gray Line Trolley Tours

Artist-led tours & art-making experiences

Hop-on/hop-off sightseeing; also Christmas- and ghost-themed tours

757-606-4859 riverartsdistrict.com/avl-art-tours/

828-251-8687 graylineasheville.com

Movie Locations in Asheville & the NC Mountains

Amazing Pubcycle

Self-guided tour by RomanticAsheville.com to various spots in the region where popular films, or parts of them, were shot

romanticasheville.com/hollywood. htm

Tour of downtown Asheville via 13-person pedal trolley; BYO beer/ wine

828-214-5010 amazingpubcycle.com

The Flying Bike

Tours of downtown Asheville via electric bicycles; rentals available

828-393-0326 flyingbiketours.com

Get Your Groove on with These Fun Rentals

Asheville Hot Air Balloons

BY WATER

Aerial tours of WNC

828-667-9943 ashevillehotairballoons.com Wai Mauna Asheville SUP Tours

Stand-up paddle board tours of area rivers and lakes; rentals available.

828-808-9038 waimaunaashevillesuptours.com

HIKING, OUTDOORS, & ECO-TOURS NCLINE Adventures

Includes hiking, biking, kayaking, zip lining, paddle boarding, & more; custom van/truck rental available

828-662-0000 nclineadventures.com

Tumblestone Waterfall Tours 828-242-5563 tumblestonetours.com Asheville Hiking Tours/ Waterfall & Ecotours 828-476-8687 ashevillehikingtours.com Blue Ridge Hiking Company 828-713-5451 blueridgehikingco.com Wildland Trekking Appalachian Hiking Adventures 800-715-4453 wildlandtrekking.com/asheville.html Cataloochee Valley Tours 828-450-7985 cataloocheevalleytours.com Pisgah Field School Tours

Includes programs & workshops

828-884-3443 pisgahfieldschool.org

> >APPALACHIAN RIVERBOARD COMPANY 174 Weaverville Hwy, Unit 6 Woodfin, NC facebook.com

> >BELLYAK

1465 Sand Hill Rd, Suite 110 Candler, NC 828.231.7469 bellyak.com

> >FRENCH BROAD OUTFITTERS 704 Riverside Dr, Asheville, NC 828.505.7371 frenchbroadoutfitters.com

> >RUMBLING BALD RESORT

112 Mountains Blvd, Lake Lure, NC 828.694.3000 rumblingbald.com

> >WAI MAUNA ASHEVILLE SUP 192 Riverside Dr, Asheville, NC 828.808.9038 waimaunaashevillesuptours.com

> >ZEN TUBING

608 Riverside Dr, Asheville, NC 855.936.8823 zentubing.com

> >EXOTIC CAR COLLECTION BY ENTERPRISE

5489 R C Josh Birmingham Pkwy, Charlotte, NC exoticcars.enterprise.com

> >LAND ROVER EXPERIENCE AT BILTMORE One Lodge St, Asheville, NC biltmore.com

> >GRANDFATHER POWERSPORTS 194 Bennett Way, Boone NC 828.773.7999 grandfatherpowersports.com

> >HIGH COUNTRY POLARIS 200 Pineola St, Newland, NC 828.737.3060 askcounty.com

> >SLINGING IN THE SMOKIES

3388-A Soco Rd, Maggie Valley, NC 828.506.3079 slinginginthesmokies.com

ETC. > >AMAZING PUBCYCLE 828.214.5010 amazingpubcycle.com

> >CITY OF ASHEVILLE SKATEPARK

BY LAND > >ASHEVILLE MOTORCYCLE

50 Cherry St N, Asheville, NC 828.225.7184 ashevillenc.gov

RENTALS 889 Riverside Dr, Asheville, NC 828.423.3300 ashevillemotorcyclerentals.com

> >RAD SKATEPARK

> >BLUE RIDGE EXPEDITIONS

> >THE FLYING BIKE

828.925.0057 breoffroad.com

37 Foundy St, Asheville, NC 828.338.8830 radskateparkavl.com

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Community Investment ALFIE (Alternative Lending For Inspired Entrepreneurs) epitomizes the idea of a win-win: The firm provides commonsense financing to real estate entrepreneurs in the local community. ALFIE’s full spectrum of services for investors and entrepreneurs contributes to the economic growth of Western North Carolina.

ALFIE supplies loans across WNC in five main categories: rehab projects, speculative construction projects, multifamily housing, commercial property, and cash-out loans using real estate as equity. This allows potential borrowers who may not fit into the traditional bank model to pursue and execute their desired real estate goals.

For the firm’s hundreds of investors, their capital is diversified across hundreds of ALFIE’s local projects. This mitigates the risks and provides a predictable cash flow, with a dividend yield of over 7% produced in 2018.

ALFIE provides creative and quick financing solutions to real estate investors/developers and entrepreneurs. Committed to their borrowers’ success, ALFIE is helping to build sustainable local economies throughout WNC and upstate South Carolina.

It provides a convenient and simple platform for local real estate entrepreneurs and investors to connect and realize ongoing mutual benefits.

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19 arlington st, asheville 28814 - 828.776.8632 - alfieloans.com

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Real Estate Development Most good business stories begin with misfortune turned opportunity; such was the case with L. B. Jackson & Co. When Ken Jackson lost his project management job in construction in 1985, he realized he would only accomplish his goals through his own business. Within the day, he had founded L. B. Jackson & Co. with a few credit cards and a rented office in a converted motel.

The business has come a long way since then, evolving through several phases of construction both commercial and residential. In 2004 Jackson shifted the business’ strategy to focus on real estate development, and today L. B. Jackson & Co. works exclusively on its own development projects.

The company’s most popular projects are its condo and townhome communities. As the price of real estate continues to rise in the Asheville area, L. B. Jackson & Co. once again turns challenge into opportunity by developing its own residential communities where they can control costs and therefore build homes that are reasonably priced.

Jackson and his team, which includes a longtime CFO and secretary, part-time administrative assistant, and Jackson’s son and partner, Kevin, take pride in the knowledge that they are helping more and more members of our community achieve the American Dream of owning their own home.

l. b. jackson & co.

po box 1157, arden 28704 - 828.684.8800 - lbjandco.com

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Ivester Jackson Blackstream At first glance, Ivester Jackson Blackstream Christie’s is a wealth of contradictions: deeply local and internationally adept, adaptively modern and comfortably established, service that is both personal and professional. Yet these aren’t contradictions, but knitted realities, and it’s in them that Ivester Jackson Blackstream and its clients thrive.

As an affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate, the company has access to a network of international buyers and sophisticated marketing apparatus, providing sellers with unparalleled exposure to a global market. Because Christie’s offices are centered in cities that feed directly into the Asheville real estate market, Ivester Jackson Blackstream is regularly referred by affiliates around the globe.

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It’s the agents’ connections to the Blue Ridge Mountains that make the business regionally nimble. Many of the company’s brokers are Asheville natives, and even those who aren’t carry an adoptive passion for the place they call home that is transferred to their clients. Managing Broker Jonathan Hunter, himself a native, dedicates himself to the Asheville community as a Chamber board member and president of the Young Professionals of Asheville. Britt Allen, the agency’s Senior Broker, spurs the company’s community outreach, which has supported agencies like Arts for Life, Habitat for Humanity, and CFWNC’s Power of the Purse. Other agents invest their time individually with organizations like Helpmate, Dining Out for Life, and Women for Women.

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Each broker brings special skill sets to the agency in order to expand its abilities and impact. Laura Livaudais, a top agent in Asheville, was recently named to the distinguished Christie’s Master’s Circle. As a broker with 13 years of experience, Kim Gentry Justus provides a knack for navigating difficult transactions and getting her clients to the closing table. Hendersonville agent Cathy Diepholz previously owned her own firm and has worked in real estate for more than 25 years, while Mike Zyboyovski brings extensive development experience to Ivester Jackson Blackstream. Former teacher Ellen McGuire and Janet Blake, a paralegal for two decades, also lend particular insights gleaned from their previous careers to the agency. The company’s newest agent, Stacey Klimchuk, has raised the bar in local real estate by representing the buyer in the sale of the Chanteloup Mansion in Hendersonville.

2019 held spectacular promise and achievement for Ivester Jackson Blackstream, as the agency expanded into

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Hendersonville, Tryon, Shelby, and Rutherfordton, began working on a number of development projects, and was given the opportunity to represent both Town Mountain Preserve and the remaining lot inventory in Southcliff.

Internally, the agency continued to expand, strategically adding agents that fit the company’s culture and maintain a commitment to professionalism. In the year ahead, Ivester Jackson Blackstream plans to extend its reach into Cashiers, Highlands, Virginia, and Tennessee.

Perhaps the most definitive advantage of Ivester Jackson Blackstream is not its international network or local regard, but the personalized, meticulous, and sophisticated service agents offer to all their properties, which is particularly evident in the luxury market. With such distinctive edges, Ivester Jackson Blackstream is uniquely positioned to find buyers for its sellers and homes for its buyers, efficiently, expertly, and felicitously.

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Fine Furniture

Shopping at Tyson Furniture in downtown Black Mountain is a unique experience. The town itself is a magnet for visitors with its beautiful setting, interesting shops, and great places to eat. Tyson’s is a sprawling store spread out over an entire block of Black Mountain. The huge selection includes the best in today’s furniture and accessories, from Stressless Ekornes recliners made in Norway, to fine quality Amish solid wood furniture made in America. Tyson Furniture delivers with its own crews and trucks throughout Western North Carolina and the Southeastern United States.

The business was started in 1946, right after World War II, by Alfred (Bub) and Betty Tyson. Business was brisk after the war, and the store rapidly prospered. Joe and Carol Tyson took over the management in 1974. Today they are still active in the day to day activities, but leave much of the management to Ryan Councill, Olivia Tyson, Sarah West, and Andrew Tyson.

The most difficult part of the business is staying on top of trends in a rapidly changing furniture business, but that comes with the reward of forging relationships with generations of returning customers throughout the Southeast.

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the Next Generation of Commercial Brokerage Although Carla Barnard began her career at the global law firm Hogan Lovells specializing in commercial real estate, she soon recognized that her true passion lay not with the law, but with real estate itself. When she relocated from London, UK, to Asheville, North Carolina, in 2013, it was this passion that pushed her to transition into commercial brokerage and establish her business, Carla & Company.

Barnard and her team offer a full panel of commercial real estate consulting and brokerage services for investors, operating businesses, landlords, and tenants. Informed by her experience in real estate law and supported by an extensive local network of affiliated brokers, lenders, attorneys, and design professionals, Barnard employs real time analysis to help clients make sensible decisions with the perspective of longterm asset performance.

Carla & Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collaborative approach and commitment to putting clients first have placed the firm at the forefront of pivotal transactions that have helped transform the WNC real estate market over the past five years. Through informative, transparent communication, Barnard consistently helps clients make the best deals, in the right place, at the right time.

carla & company 53 asheland ave, asheville 28801 828.222.3685 - carla-co.com

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The Faces of Trusted Tax Preparation & Financial Planning Carol King is, in her own words, an “entrepreneur disguised as a CPA.” Her curiosity for the mechanics of business has led her to don dozens of hats, from restaurateur to importer, but none so well-suited as founder of Asheville’s first womanowned CPA firm, Carol L. King & Associates, P.A. When King opened the firm in 1991, she created a platform where she could employ her inherent entrepreneurial passion to help manage the financial success of a wide spectrum of businesses. Nearly 30 years later, King continues to apply her

meticulous eye for enterprise to the endeavors of Asheville’s industrialists, as well as the personal wealth of local families, at locations in both Asheville and Highlands.

King has expanded her firm and its offerings in order to serve her clients with a comprehensive suite of tools to build and manage their business and wealth. In 2006 the CPA firm added financial advising to its catalog, essentially doubling the tool chest of services offered and transforming Carol L. King & Associates into a one-stop financial services shop.

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Today the team specializes in saving businesses and individuals money on their taxes and building their personal wealth at their two locations in Asheville and Highlands. The firm offers a continuum of services, including CPA-advised wealth management, strategic tax planning, and legacy planning, which clients can draw upon throughout the life of their business. King has developed a particular depth of experience in all areas of real estate and taxation, with many clients in construction, development, sales, exchange, and real estate investing.

Carol L. King & Associates also specializes in first generation businesses and guiding entrepreneurs through the inception, growth, and sale or succession of their companies. The team works with clients to help them get started, teach them how to know when and why they’re making a profit, advise them as the business matures about adding benefits like retirement plans and life insurance, coach them when they’re ready to sell the business or create a succession plan, and counsel

them as they consider what to do with the proceeds, ways to fund their retirement, and how to pass their legacy on to future generations.

Recently the firm expanded its toolkit for wealthy clients to include legacy planning. King and her team help families with wealth identify core values to pass on to future generations and ensure that heirs are prepared to receive their inheritance.

King’s dedication to entrepreneurship is rivaled only by her passion for community, evident in the fingerprints she’s left on downtown Asheville’s most notable redevelopment projects: She spearheaded the creation of Pack Square Park and helped restore the Grove Arcade for public use. This spirit of philanthropy is also perceptible in the Carol L. King & Associates team, who participate in the CPA Day of Service every fall, donating their time to local nonprofits like MANNA FoodBank.

As both a CPA and an entrepreneur, King typifies the goal she set forth for her firm in 1991: to help people make money and achieve their dreams.

carol l. king & associates

40 north french broad st, asheville 28801 - 828.258.2323 - clkcpa.com securities offered through

1st global capital corp. member finra, sipc. investment advisory services offered through 1st global advisors, inc. insurance services offered through 1st global insurance services, inc.

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Comprehensive Insurance

Since McKinney Insurance Services, Inc. was founded in 1981, its intention has been the same: to provide clients with the best insurance coverage for their needs. In 2020, with an ever-evolving team and an expanding selection of insurance plans, the agency will be better equipped than ever to deliver that mission to an increasingly broad and diverse Western North Carolina community.

Doug and Sandy McKinney were working for Nationwide’s corporate offices in Atlanta, Georgia, when they jumped at the opportunity to move north and open their own agency in the early eighties. Since then, their business has grown from one location and two employees (the McKinneys themselves) to include more than 20 employees and three offices in Asheville, 38

Candler, and Weaverville. The agency offers a comprehensive lineup of insurance products, including homeowners, auto, life, long-term care, and business insurances.

With Doug McKinney as President and son Chad McKinney as Principal Agent, McKinney Insurance Services continues its family legacy, while building a well-rounded team of passionate agents. The company is made up of both veteran agents with more than 20 years of experience with the agency and fresh, young talent who bring stimulating energy to the business. Together, they’re able to provide clients with an excellent experience while identifying the coverage they need.

Each agent is enthusiastic not only about connecting clients with the best plans, but educating them about their options.

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opportunity for McKinney to largely expand their offerings and their ability to provide every client with the best possible policy and price. Rather than connecting insureds to policies from a single carrier, McKinney will now represent dozens of different carriers, including Nationwide Insurance, effectively multiplying their clients’ options tenfold.

With more options and more benefits than ever before, agents have increased opportunities to introduce their clients to new policies and educate them about their options. All of McKinney Insurance Services’ employees take pride in sharing new opportunities with their customers, especially with the fresh bounty of policies at their disposal. As the agency evolves, so does its agents’ dedication to connecting customers to insurance policies designed for their lives.

mckinney insurance services, inc.

5 allen ave, asheville 28803 - 828.684.5020 - mckinneyinsuranceservices.com

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Western North Carolina Real Estate STARTING IN FEBRUARY OF 2013, CAPITAL AT PLAY PUBLISHED OUR FIRST annual real estate report, detailing Western North Carolina trends for the year just finished and making predictions for the year to come. At that point, in the post-Great Recession recovery, the housing marketâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and, it should be noted, commercial real estate as wellâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;had begun booming, and there has been no looking back ever since. Consider this snapshot taken from our 2019 report and based on then-just-released figures from the Western North Carolina Regional MLS system: Overall, the residential real estate market was good in 2017, better in 2018, and will continue to be good in 2019. Local trends are positive for stable unit sales, dollar volume, and home value appreciation. The Asheville area continues to gain in population; business and industry are expanding; the arts are growing; and real estate prices have increased at a steady rate every month since April 2013.

Residential home sales, including single-family homes, townhouses, and condominiums, declined slightly in 2018 in the regions of interest to most Western North Carolina residents, but were still very strong. And ultimately, as we approach 2019 year end, sales and prices continue to be up even while inventory continues to shrink, and your current house is probably worth considerably more than you paid for it but is still a bargain for someone retiring to the area.

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National Data for Winter of 2018

+1.9%

-7.0%

MONTH - OVER - MONTH

$$$

YEAR - OVER - YEAR

Sales are at an annual pace of 5.32 million

MOST HOMES SOLD IN 42 DAYS sold in less than a month

43%

MEDIAN PRICE

$257,700

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UP 4.2% FROM NOVEMBER 2017

SOURCE: NAR EXSISTING HOME SALES REPORT 12/19/18

$

The Cost of RENTING vs. BUYING Percentage of Income Needed to Afford Median Rent

$$$

HISTORICALLY:

NOW:

25.8%

28.4%

Percentage of Income Needed to Afford Median Home HISTORICALLY:

NOW:

21.0%

17.5%

If you are renting and think you can't afford a home, think again! info from chart by: pulsenomics

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$260K

Median Sales Prices

asheville region

$240K $220K

$200K $180K

$160K 1-2008

1-2009

1-2010

1-2011

1-2012

1-2013

1-2014

1-2015

1-2016

1-2017

1-2018

the asheville region: single-family & condo-townhome. each data point is 12 months of activity. data is from january 1, 2019.

MLS structure designates a new â&#x20AC;&#x153;Asheville Regionâ&#x20AC;? The Asheville Region includes the following counties: Buncombe, Madison, Haywood, Swain, Henderson, Jackson, Transylvania, Yancey, McDowell, Rutherford, Polk, and portions of Burke and Mitchell.

DATA FOR CHARTS SUPPLIED BY CAROLINA MULTIPLE LISTING SERVICES, INC. Provided by Bill Fishburne of Beverly-Hanks & Assoc.

December Homes for Sale asheville region

6K

buncombe county

5,394

haywood county

4,880

5K

henderson county

4,642

4K 3K 2K

788

1K 0

781

610 -9.5%

2016

1,467

1,444

1,413

669

+2.2% -22.6% -14.3%

2017

527 -4.9%

+1.6% -13.6%

681 +1.8%

2018

the asheville region & buncombe county & haywood county & henderson county: single-family & condo-townhome. each data point is 12 months of activity. data is from january 1, 2019.

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Annual Appreciation: Asheville, NC

RECENT QUARTER APPRECIATION 4Q'17

1985-2018 Home Price Index

1.52

14%

2Q'18

3Q'18

2.82

7.23% 7.21% 8.18% 8.05%

1.88

data reported: 11/26/2018, source: www.fhfa.gov

5.13% 2.78%

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

-4%

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

-0.82% -4.99% -2.91% -3.71% -1.84%

-2%

-6%

5.83%

6.03% 4.75% 6.67% 6.79% 5.42% 5.47% 7.36%

6.36%

8.84%

0%

2.82% 4.55% 3.35% 4.35% 6.18% 4.96%

2%

1.78%

4%

5.24% 6.74% 4.97%

6%

8.26%

Yearly Appreciation Rate

10% 8%

3.15

12.47% 10.12%

12%

1Q'18

(*Note: 2018 Appreciation Rates based on Jan-Sept data)

26 YEARS BY THE NUMBERS All Numbers, unless otherwise stated, are National Averages HOME PRICE 1992

$105 K

2018

$255 K

UNEMPLOYMENT 1992

7.5%

2018

3.9%

ANNUAL APPRECIATION 1992

2%

2018

8.05%

RATE OF INFLATION 1992

3%

2018

3%

GDP GROWTH 1992

3%

2018

3%

GALLON OF GAS 1992

$1.10

2018

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Western North Carolina Event Planners WITH ALL THE BEAUTIFUL VIEWS AND SPACES OF OUR GREAT mountains, it is no wonder weddings, parties, and celebrations abound in our area. That means a large workforce is needed for events and the planning of said events. In our March Edition we covered the sector of the behind-thescenes heros who make these gatherings the best they can be. Following is a list from that report. These party people were in operation as of March 2019.

> >a

wedding place and lodge

5274 NC-226, Marion, NC 828-652-1653 aweddingplace.wixsite.com/ weddingvenue

> >amazing

affairs and

events

46 Southwicke Dr, Arden, NC 828-399-0797

> >archangel productions

315 Ridgetop Rd, Franklin, NC 855-642-8346 archangelaudioproductions.com

> >asheville

destination management co .

35 Haywood St, Asheville, NC 828-232-9994

> >asheville

event centre & dance centre

291 Sweeten Creek Rd, Asheville, NC 828-274-1377 ashevilleeventcentre.com

> >asheville

event co .

PO Box 8998, Asheville, NC 888-240-8062 ashevilleeventco.com

> >asheville

meeting

logistics

828-277-9634 ashevillemeetinglogistics.com

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> >asklizze

110 Dorchester Ave, Asheville, NC 804-517-8017

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designs

828-450-3532 bobbymarksdesigns.com

> >business

a la carte

28 Old Applewood Ln, Hendersonville, NC 828-290-7441

> >carolina

love events

19 Zillicoa St #100, Asheville, NC 252-903-1202 carolinaloveevents.com

> >carolina

mountain

wedding

72 Snow Summit Ln, Banner Elk, NC 407-697-8640

> >celine &

company

49 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 828-254-9902 celineandcompany.com

> >champion

hills special events

1 Hagen Dr, Hendersonville, NC 828-696-1962 championhillsevents.com

> >cordial &

craft

41 N Merrimon Ave #107, Asheville, NC 828-316-1502 cordialandcraft.com

> >the

crest center

P.O. Box 6100, Asheville NC 828-251-1820 thecrestcenter.com

> >debonair

affairs

980-226-4535

> >elena

events

828-545-6259 elenaevents.com

> >engaged

asheville

41 N Merrimon Ave #107, Asheville, NC 865-803-3900 engagedasheville.com

> >english

elegance weddings and events

844-866-7526

> >events

by kiersa

13 1/2 W Walnut St, Asheville, NC 828-606-9659 asheville-events.com

> >events

by sarah ashley

85 W Walnut St #309, Asheville, NC 225-400-2489

> >events

for you

828-279-4132 eventsforyou.net

> >exquisite

events and consulting

704-578-1974 exquisiteevents.info

> >firefly

event company

410-279-1022 fireflyeventcompany.com

> >flora

428 Haywood Rd B, Asheville, NC 828-252-8888 florabotanicalliving.com

> >fontaine

wedding &

events

1336 Alexander Rd, Leicester, NC 828-683-2316 fontaineweddingevents.com

> >foreman

event co .

910-273-4793 foremaneventco.com

> >front

porch events

518-524-6112 frontporcheventsnc.com

> >heartfelt

weddings

and events

401-285-6201 heartfeltwe.com

> >hpm

associates , inc .

114 Ray Cline Rd,Whittier, NC 305-274-0030 hpmassociates.com

> >i

do

539 Main St, Highlands, NC 864-908-4856 upstateido.com

> >kenmure

weddings

100 Club House Dr, Flat Rock, NC 828-697-9999 kenmureweddings.com

> >lisa

pleasant events

28 Schenck Pkwy, Asheville, NC 828-214-7197 lisapleasant.com

> >m7

event solutions

P.O. Box 6100, Asheville, NC 828-251-1820 teamm7.com

> >m+j

events

828-515-1914 mandjevents.com

> >maggie

valley weddings

81 Tanglewood Ln, Maggie Valley, NC 828-246-2617 maggievalleyweddings.com

> >mary

bell events

61 Village Pointe Ln, Asheville, NC 828-450-2209 marybellevents.com

> >messe

stuttgart inc .

191 Lyman St, Asheville, NC 828-620-3094 messe-stuttgart.de/messe-stuttgart-inc/

> >mingle

events and vintage rentals

865-803-3900 mingleeventsandrentals.com

> >mosaix

group

asheville

160 Royal Pines Dr, Arden, NC 828-654-8118 mosaixgroup.com

> >mountain

elegance

1687 Matheson Cove Rd, Hayesville, NC 828-389-4001 mountainelegancenc.com

> >nantahala

weddings

16121 Wayah Rd, Topton, NC 828-421-0141 nantahalaweddings.com

> >north +

south wedding co .

828-393-5793 northsouthweddingco.com

> >occasions

by emily

85 Old Case Rd, Fletcher, NC 828-539-4800 occasionsbyemily.com

> >oh ,

henry events

127 Aurora Dr, Asheville, NC 512-554-7508 ohhenryevents.com

> >party

envy event planning & floral design

102 Ashley Cir, Asheville, NC 828-779-4816 party-envy.com

> >peak

production co .

172 Charlotte St, Asheville, NC 828-255-2526

> >pride

rock farm

> >shay

brown events

3455 Ridge Rd, Hendersonville, NC 828-674-6987

80 Broadway St, Asheville, NC 828-299-4513 shaybrownevents.com

> >smash

events , inc

786-338-3655 smasheventsinc.com

> >social

people productions

10 Adamswood Rd,

Asheville, NC 828-577-2912

> >something

like a dream weddings and events

105 Dock Branch Rd, Barnardsville, NC 828-775-4373

> >spirit

> >studio

hb events & communication

828-275-1906 studiohb-avl.com

> >studiowed

15 Arlington St, Asheville, NC 828-490-9310 studiowed.net mindful planner

7 Old Haw Creek Rd, Asheville, NC 571-275-9660 themindfulplanner.com

> >the

pond

> >the

venue

105 Lindsey Loop Rd, Fletcher, NC 828-606-5448 thepondevents.com

21 N Market St, Asheville, NC 828-252-1101 ashevillevenue.com

> >the

wedding journey

828-242-8621 heartlightweddings.com

> >the

wedding resource center

703 W King St, Boone, NC 828-773-8431 weddingresourcenc.com

> >the

> >to

plan ahead

828-318-8428 toplanahead.com

> >two savvy

375 Upper Grassy Branch Rd, Asheville, NC 828-777-2038 spiritsavvycocktails.com

> >the

Blowing Rock, NC 828-719-9171 wholeshebangevents.com

sweet sparrows wedding & event planning

38 Austin Ave, Asheville, NC 828-707-2534 wosweetsparrows.com

> >verge

events

15 Arlington St, Asheville, NC 828-398-0732 vergeevents.net

> >vintage

barn events

780 Beech Tree Rd, Whittier, NC 828-631-5249 mountainbarnevents.com

> >wedding

belle â&#x20AC;&#x2122; s nc

> >wedding

connections

828-772-2317 weddingbellesnc.com

82 Patton Ave #710, Asheville, NC 919-260-6860 southeastweddingplanner.com

> >wedding inspirations bridal boutique

308 Merrimon Ave, Asheville, NC 828-253-3012 weddinginsp.com

> >weddings

by wendy

1302 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC 828-702-5134

> >wnc

weddings &

events

828-553-7718 wncweddings.net

whole shebang

1107 Main St #B, 45

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Handmade Rugs Hand-knotted and boldly dyed, worn by Togar Rugs’ collection of handmade, onethe tread of thousands of footsteps, and of-a-kind rugs is the largest in Western North shipped across hundreds of miles, every Carolina. The older, authentic pieces that one of the 10,000 pieces at Togar Rugs tells make up the core of its business represent a story. Together, they tell the tale of Togar a dying art form; meticulously crafted Rugs itself. over hundreds of hours, the workmanship After founder Tunch Togar met and of these heirloom rugs is impossible to married his wife, Nancy, in Istanbul, he replicate in today’s market. Each rug is found a way to keep himself occupied an artifact of history whose knots tell a while splitting his time between Asheville story of generations and regional cultures and Istanbul: It began with a few pieces on completely unique to its weave. return trips to Asheville, and word traveled The rug experts at Togar Rugs serve as of his interesting collection of hand- storytellers and translators, illustrating knotted rugs and kilims. Soon, the Togars’ to curious customers the different details basement was stacked floor to ceiling, and and histories of each handmade rug. The Togar Rugs was born, a small venture in family-owned shop has entered its second Biltmore Forest, in the winter of 1977. generation with daily operations under the The business has continued to grow in direction of wife and husband duo Derin the 43 years since, and today Togar Rugs’ and Trevor A. Togar. The industry is small, rotating collection exceeds 10,000 pieces. and those with acute knowledge of fine, The shop continues to specialize in hand- handmade rugs few, but all sales associates knotted rugs from Turkey, Iran, and the at Togar Rugs are rug experts. They share Caucasian regions. their expansive knowledge around the The pieces at Togar Rugs are varied in size, origins of the rugs to educate clients on color, age, and origin, but unvarying in their the history and culture of when and where beauty. Of the shop’s expansive inventory, these beautiful artifacts were made. approximately 60% of the rugs are vintage Togar Rugs retains its dedication to the (40–60 years old), 20% are semi-antique family business’ values even while adapting (70–80 years old), 10% are antique (90–100 to a modern, digital world. In the year years old), and 10% are new production in ahead, Togar’s online presence will evolve modern, contemporary, and transitional and expand to include point-and-click designs. Though most pieces are 100% wool, ordering with rugs delivered straight to the business also sells collectable, 100% clients’ doorsteps. But Togar Rugs’ original pure silk rugs. In addition to its wide-ranging story—that of knowledgeable service and selection, Togar Rugs also offers rug cleaning, high value, high quality rugs offered at rug repair done entirely by hand, fiber guard reasonable, fair market values—continues stain treatment protection, rug padding, to be told in-store in Asheville. pick up and delivery, and rug shipping.

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Mike Emerson

Dennis Mahoney

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Handcrafted Mattresses

At Colton Mattress Factory, Mike Emerson and his team handcraft two-sided mattresses, just as he has done for more than three decades. What began in 1946 in Iowa is a legacy that continues with the Emerson family in Asheville today, with Mike continuing to lead a company he dedicated to his son, Colton.

The skilled artisans at Colton Mattress Factory handcraft exceptional sleep systems with time-tested techniques and modern innovations. Pocket coil mattresses—which feature individually pocketed coils that provide a pressure-free sleep surface, amazing support, and virtually no motion transfer from one side of the mattress to the other—are a newly popular

feature in Colton’s mattresses. Modern adjustable beds are the fastest-growing part of the mattress business and are available with other innovative functions, like massage, pillow tilt for added neck support, and even a specialty feature for acid reflux.

Though many of Colton Mattress’ products are new, it’s a business that’s still dedicated to the traditions that matter. That means utilizing naturally cushioning, high-grade, and locallysourced components, and delivering them with memorable customer service. And because Colton Mattress delivers factory-direct to customers, the prices are comparable to or even lower than mass-produced mattresses.

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The Face of

Commercial Real Estate

Joanne Badr Morgan’s immersion in real estate began in Asheville, when she witnessed the commercial growth of downtown from the insider’s perspective of her family’s local businesses. Her interest in real estate development and closely held businesses led her to pursue a law career that allows her to work with investors, developers, entrepreneurs, landlords, tenants, and their lenders for the past 11 years.

In 2014 Morgan joined Ward and Smith, P.A., a state-wide, full-service law firm where she represents clients across North Carolina with real estate financing, development, and leasing, as well as business formation and acquisition.

Joanne also offers real estate brokerage services to her clients in Western North Carolina looking to find, acquire, and sell real estate.

She has closed more than $1 billion in loan and purchase transactions during her career. Joanne has been named a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers®, and she was recently honored by her peers in the 2020 edition of “Best Lawyers in America”

by Best Lawyers®.

Joanne’s deep local roots, collaborative network, and entrepreneurial approach to law and brokerage ease the complexity of commercial real estate transactions, making the experience fruitful for clients on both sides of the table.

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Mindful Building

At Red Tree Builders, it’s all about relationships— with clients, of course, but also with the environment, our local community, and with each other. Since the eco-luxury home builder was founded in 2006, Brandon and Amanda Bryant and their growing team have dedicatedly built homes that are, as their slogan attests, “Mindfully Built—Artfully Crafted.”

The Bryants’ priority lies with their clients, with whom they cultivate intentional and considerate relationships. Each house is built specifically to the clients’ needs, goals, and artistic style; the result is a home that is as artfully crafted as it is enduring and livable.

Red Tree’s devotion to mindfulness also applies to the land: The builders draw inspiration from nature for insight on design for homes that are in harmony with their surroundings and exhibit a deep respect for it in their actions, crafting homes that are mindful of local resources, sustainable, and energy efficient. With the establishment of sister company AeroBarrier WNC, Red Tree will help expand its sustainable impact through builders, remodelers, and homeowners who want to prioritize energy efficiency and smart design.

The builders are conscientious of and committed to our community, too, as exemplified by the business’ partnerships with the Asheville Homebuilder Workforce Development and the Mountain Area Workforce Development teams; together, they promote the incredible career opportunities of construction, especially for women. As a recent scholar of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program, the builders are already applying valuable lessons in expanding their business.

Behind it all is a team of expertly trained Red Tree employees and a network of carefully selected trade partners. President and Certified Green Master Builder Brandon Bryant, a native of WNC and construction, continues to apply his experience and love for the land to each of Red Tree’s projects and partnerships. Wife and Vice President Amanda Bryant supports the vision and strategic direction of the business, while newcomer and COO John Anglin, himself a 15year veteran of the local development industry, runs daily operations, and supports marketing and community engagement. Patrick Medlin, CFO, serves as Red Tree’s financial ninja, and internturned-Project Manager and Estimator Ashley Kepley-Steward is a testament to the lasting efficacy of apprenticeships and the excellent construction programs at A-B Tech.

Together with trade partners, it’s a team that’s large enough to provide you with experts in each aspect of your home’s design, yet small enough that each client becomes part of the Red Tree family.

The result of these relationships is a series of green-built homes that are artfully crafted and built to last. Red Tree’s projects range from mountain modern to farmhouse to craftsman, but all represent the eco-luxury standard for which the builders are known. Together, Red Tree Builders, its partners, and its clients are creating a legacy of timeless homes that will add to the architectural style of Asheville for years to come. In the year ahead, Red Tree will remain a mindful leader in the industry, developing provocative solutions that are required for our present and future.

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Real Estate In Our Region “All in the family” takes a literal turn for the Wrights, and push progress, talk with vendors, and oversee who have called Western North Carolina home for construction. The results are luxury houses that exactly seven generations, a lineage that includes lifetimes of match the customers’ visions, are built with time and experience in local real estate and custom construction. budget in mind, and most importantly, feel like home.

The Wrights have consistently paired necessity with Marilyn Wright’s specialty is selling unique and luxury passion to build businesses dedicated to integrity, quality, properties across WNC. She attributes her success to the and ethics while finding, building, or selling the perfect genuineness and understanding with which she handles home for their clients. Tim Wright began building custom each transaction. With plenty of personal experience as homes in the eighties in order to do what other local a seller, she understands how it feels to both lose and builders could not: create exactly the home his family profit from a sale, and can perform best when clients wanted. Similarly, wife Marilyn’s introduction to real are upfront about their goals and time frame. She estate was fatefully decided: When the market turned in communicates dedicatedly with her clients in order to 2008, she was working for Wright Family Custom Homes exceed their expectations in buying or selling a home. in design and coordination; in order to sell the business’ The efficacy of Marilyn’s approach is vindicated by large inventory of houses, she got her real estate license. her sales history, which includes a $3.9 million farm Those homes were sold within months. in Brevard with frontage on the French Broad River, Years later, the husband and wife team continue to and a majestic 1929 Georgian Estate in Biltmore define and elevate the regional real estate market, Forest. Though she thrives in high-end real estate, her both with Wright Family Custom Homes and Marilyn’s experience spans a range of price points: Upcoming sales position at Premier Sotheby’s International Realty, include a $2.9 million home and a $20,000 property. where she is a top producer.

The Wrights’ daughter, Hannah, a recent graduate of Wright Family Custom Homes has evolved in recent the University of Maryland with a degree in economics, years to appeal to a more discerning client; whereas has joined the family in real estate as a licensed agent the business used to build some seven to ten projects at Premier Sotheby’s. She brings with her a lifetime of annually, it now only accepts one to two very detailed exposure to all facets of real estate design, construction, custom homes. Though these houses are defined by the and sales. business’ meticulous attention to detail, that doesn’t Whether you’re looking to build your dream home or slow down construction or unnecessarily burden the sell your property, the Wright family has the experience budget. That’s in part thanks to Tim’s continuous hands- and expertise to help with all aspects of real estate on attitude, which finds him at projects daily to assess development, design, building, and sales.

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The State of Manufacturing 2019 North Carolinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Manufactured Good Exports, in Billions of Dollars 2000- 2017 $35 $30 $25 $20 $15 $10 $5 $0

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Graph rebuilt from: Center for Manufacturing Research, North Carolina Export Facts

TOP 10 INDUSTRY SECTORS That Led Manufacturing Employment Growth

Over The Past Five Years In The Asheville Metro Area (Buncombe, Henderson, Haywood, Madison)

2013 - 2018 % Change

167%

BEVERAGE MANUFACTURING

23%

32%

MOTOR VEHICLE PARTS MANUFACTURING

51%

MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES MANUFACTURING

29% 41%

89% 54

RUBBER PRODUCT MANUFACTURING

PRINTING AND RELATED SUPPORT ACTIVITIES FABRIC MILLS

VENTILATION, HEATING, AIR-CONDITIONING, AND COMMERCIAL REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING

102%

HOUSEHOLD AND INSTITUTIONAL FURNITURE AND KITCHEN CABINET MANUFACTURING

38% 5%

AEROSPACE PRODUCT AND PARTS MANUFACTURING PLASTICS PRODUCT MANUFACTURING

Source: Provided by Economic Development Coalition for Asheville-Buncombe County

Some Recent Facts About Manufacturing In North Carolina Manufacturing Employment in NC:

Manufacturing Labor Productivity:

In 2017 manufacturing accounted for

Productivity in North Carolina is

of the total private industry employment in the state.

than in the nation.

13% (or 467,442)

North Carolina’s manufacturing employment is

the 8th LARGEST

among the 50 states and is the largest in the Southeast.

In 2017 there were

10,274 Manufacturing establishments in the state.

42% BETTER

Source: U.S. Census, 2016, Annual Survey of Manufacturers (ASM), Value Added/Payroll

Economic Multiplier: Every $1.00 spent on manufacturing means

$1.82

for North Carolina’s economy.

Source: BLS & NC QCEW

Source: IMPLAN

North Carolina Gross Domestic Product from Manufacturing (2018Q2):

North Carolina Manufacturing Exports:

Manufacturing industries generated

$105.5 Billion in GDP in the state.

Manufacturing GDP is

21% of North Carolina’s Total private sector GDP.

In the nation, North Carolina has the

6th Largest GDP.

In 2017 manufacturing goods accounted for

$30.8 Billion (or 95%)

of the state’s total exports ($32.6 billion).

Top manufacturing exports include:

Chemicals ($8.4 B) Transportation Equipment ($4.4 B) Machinery ($3.6 B) Computer & Electronic Products ($2.2 B) Textiles and Fabrics ($1.9 B)

Source: BEA

Source: WISERTrade

Manufacturing Wage:

Manufacturing Employment Growth

In 2017 the average weekly wage for manufacturing industry was

$1,122.53, 22%

higher than non-manufacturing industries.

Source: QCEW

Projections for 2014 - 2024

North Carolina: 0.7% Western North Carolina: 4.2% Source: NC Industry Employment Projections

Provided by the North Carolina Department of Commerce

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The North Carolina

DATA DASHBOARD THE NORTH CAROLINA economy as a whole (Gross Domestic Product in 2016) is about

$520 Billion,

Edward Lopez, professor of economics at Western Carolina University, offered the following data on economic and manufacturing activity in the state and our region via the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new NCDataDashboard.org project.

and the Western North Carolina share of that is

$27.1of thebillion or 5% state economy.

TODAY, AS MEASURED BY DOLLAR VALUE OF OUTPUT: Manufacturing is the leading sector in North Carolina,

$103 Billion,

or 19.8% of state output, and also in the western counties ($5.7 billion, or 21.0% of WNC output).

Manufacturing is also the fastest growing sector in WNC over the last decade.

As of 2016,

Buncombe, Haywood, and Swain counties matched pre-Great Recession levels.

In Buncombe County one area of particularly rapid growth has been in the Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services sector. With output of almost $650 million, this area of the local economy has growth by almost 70% from its 2010 level.

We see similar rebounds in the Finance and Insurance, Retail

Manufacturers in North Carolina account for Employing

10.5% of the workforce

Manufacturing growth has been much faster in the WNC counties,

39% growth

since Great Recession, than it has been statewide (22.7% over the last decade).

Total compensation to manufacturing workers has

increased 21%

over than same period. This is happening as the number of jobs in manufacturing has declined. So, there are fewer jobs, but they are paying more per job.

Trade, and Ar ts, Enter tainment, and Recreation sectors.

Meanwhile, the Construction sector and Transportation and Warehousing sector have not yet returned to their pre-Great Recession levels, but remain on trend to do so.

In 2016 the average annual compensation of North Carolina manufacturing employees was

$68,975

Source: Center for Manufacturing Research, North Carolina Manufacturing Facts

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Healthcare Statistics for Western North Carolina One of the biggest employers in our area is the medical field.

2018 INDUSTRY AGE BREAKDOWN for Asheville Metro Area by Percentage

14-18

65+ 55-64

6.1%

In the Asheville Metro there are over 34,000 employed by the Medical Industry.

19-24

UP

7%

28% from 2008 - 2018

25-34

18.7%

UP

22%

16%

from 2013 - 2018 only Source: Data Points Per Asheville Chamber

In 2018 there were

22.4%

with an hourly average of

23.2% 45-54

35-44

Source: EMSI

There are approximately

$30.25 Source: Data Points Per Asheville Chamber

1,400

establishments in the Healthcare and Social Assistance industry.

It should be considered that there can be wide margins of error for demographic estimates, but the gender demographics for the MSA overall are

77%

23%

FEMALE

MALE

Source: Data Points Per Asheville Chamber

6,144

nurses in the Asheville Metro area

The industry overall pays higher average earnings per job.

$62,055 OUR REGION

$56,778

$60,726

STATE

NATION

Source: Data Points Per Asheville Chamber

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2019

Faces of

Medicine MOST OF THE TIME, WHEN WE MEET with medical professionals entrusted with keeping us healthy and happily going about our daily lives, we are the ones sharing information about ourselves, our families, habits, and hobbies.

That’s why we thought it might be nice to help some of those dedicated individuals share a little bit about who they are, where they come from, and why they do what they do. If we’ve learned anything in nine years of asking people what exactly motivates them to get out of bed each morning, day after day, it’s the understanding that we all bring a deep level of personality to our jobs, regardless of what we do. That human element is one that cannot be overlooked, and one we hope that you find in any medical professional, especially those featured in the following pages.

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Dr. Brent Steele Leslie Steele

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Superior Hearing At The Hearing Guy, Dr. Brent Steele and his team improve the lives of patients, especially those with hearing loss and tinnitus, with a broad range of customized hearing solutions.

Dr. Steele takes a personalized approach with every patient to ensure that their hearing device works best for their unique lifestyle and circumstances, offering education and understanding along the way.

When Dr. Steele established his practice in 2014, he partnered with a franchise that distributed only one brand of hearing aids, but he quickly recognized that limiting his business to one brand also limited his patients’ options. Today The Hearing Guy operates independently and has expanded

to include all hearing aid brands and a comprehensive array of hearing health services, including hearing evaluations, hearing aid fitting, cleaning and repair, and ear wax removal.

As hearing devices become more technologically advanced, the practice—with locations in Asheville and Hendersonville— is leading the field in order to offer patients the most advanced solutions. Dr. Steele can connect the device to patients’ phones for superior sound quality on calls, and adjustments can easily be made via an app. The Hearing Guy’s innovations will continue in 2020 with the introduction of telehealth: remote programming that connects patients to Dr. Steele for adjustments without the need to visit the office.

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The Faces of Whole Health

The name may have changed, but the exceptional standard of whole-person care remains the same.

For 35 years AdventHealth Hendersonville has been part of a collaborative network of more than 50 hospitals and hundreds of care sites; they’ve long shared best practices for care, access to technology and innovations, and leverage to help keep costs down. In 2019 Park Ridge Health became AdventHealth, and that longstanding system of synergetic excellence became evident in its name.

AdventHealth continues to provide high-quality, whole-person care, treating the mind, body, and spirit across every age and stage of life. It’s this dedication to superlative medicine that draws in the hospital’s world-class physicians, like Wake Forest

Baptist Health Medical Oncologist Vel Matthews-Smith, MD, who leads AdventHealth’s nationally accredited cancer program.

The hospital’s physician team excels across all areas, including Orthopedics (AdventHealth is the first hospital in WNC to hold The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for five orthopedic specialties), their award-winning labor and delivery experience, state-of-the-art surgical care, and an emergency department partnership with Wake Forest Baptist Health. Though their skills and expertise define the clinical team, it’s their commitment to wholistic wellness through programs like Spiritual Wholeness, which serves the spiritual health of patients across all their clinical locations, that distinguishes AdventHealth.

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Jimm Bunch, President & CEO Teresa Herbert, MD, MPH, FAAP, Chief Medical Officer

Christy Sneller, Vice President of Physician Services

David Onofrey, MD, FACS, Surgery Specialist Pierre DeMatos, MD, FACS, Surgery Specialist

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Byron Dixon, MD, Medical Director, Emergency Dept.

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In 2008 insurance companies saw the economic slump as an opportunity to turn the remaining independent dental offices into managed care practices run by their corporations. Zöe Dental refused this path.

Dr. Stamatiades, the practice’s founder and CEO, was determined to keep Zöe Dental independent; he strongly believed that health care decisions should remain between a doctor and the patient without clinical interference from the patient’s insurance provider.

As a small, relatively new practice—founded in 2005, Zöe Dental had just one doctor and five employees at the time—the challenges set by the recession and Asheville’s competitive market were particularly steep. Dr. Stamatiades knew that in order to prevail, he had to do something different. He veered his practice away from industry norms and cultivated a full service, patientcentric practice that prioritizes whole-person health, comfort, and community.

Dr. Stamatiades began with a vision to overcome the public perception of dentistry. His first step: prioritizing the patient experience. He recruited employees from the customer service industry and trained them to understand the dental business, then provided them with an environment in which their personal and professional growth is nurtured. The result is a practice avoiding the traditional pitfalls of status quo dentistry: Zöe Dental offers patients short wait times, ample time with their doctor, and access to empathetic, patient-focused employees.

Dr. Stamatiades also developed the practice’s Comfort Menu. The list of complementary items, like heated leather massage chairs, aromatherapy, headphones, and paraffin hand wax, make patients’ visits more comfortable and less stressful. The exponential growth of Zöe Dental in the 10 years following Dr. Stamatiades’ intentional evolution is proof of its success. Today the practice is home to a team of 28, including 4 doctors, and offers a comprehensive suite of services like general dentistry, crown and bridge, implants, and full mouth reconstruction. In the past three years alone, the practice has grown by 65%, opening a renovated facility with 10 treatment rooms and state-of-the-art equipment in 2017.

As Zöe Dental has grown, so have its philanthropic efforts. Since starting in 2014, Zöe Dental’s annual Dentistry from the Heart event has treated 532 patients and donated over $185,000 in free dental services to the WNC community. Last year Zöe Dental also hosted its inaugural Smiles for Freedom event, a partnership with ABCCM’s Veterans Quarters that provided free dental care to veterans in need.

The innovation and impact of Zöe Dental has attracted the attention of local and regional leaders. In 2019 Dr. Stamatiades was awarded Small Business Leader of the Year in the 16-50 employee category by the Asheville Chamber of Commerce. The practice also ranked 21 on the 2019 list of Best Employers of NC for companies with 250 employees or less by Business North Carolina and received the Sky High growth award, which recognizes 25 Asheville-area businesses for their growth and success.

These accolades serve to reaffirm what the practice’s growth implies: Zöe Dental has become a well-known dental leader in WNC focused on making life better for its patients.

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Faces of Medicine Kelly Van Wagenen, DDS

Jason Juarez, DDS

Sapna Hayes, DDS

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Expert Oral & Dental Implant Surgery

In 1980 Dr. Robert Scully founded the practice with a seemingly simple intention: to provide innovative surgical care with a patient-centered focus to the people of Western North Carolina. 38 years later, Rockcliff Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery’s six-surgeon practice offers a broad range of specialties and pioneering technology across four locations, all continuing with that patient-centered focus to which the practice was originally dedicated.

A spectrum of surgical procedures and treatments are available at Rockcliff Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery to amend a range of diseases, injuries, and defects of the mouth, head, face, jaws, and the hard and soft tissues of 64

the oral and maxillofacial region. As the most experienced surgical group in WNC, the team has amassed a great deal of experience with dental implants, wisdom teeth, facial trauma, and reconstructive jaw surgery.

Every member of the Rockcliff surgical team is highly trained, having completed four to six years of meticulous and intense hospital-based training following the already rigorous regiment of dental school. Each of those surgeons brings with them a unique collection of knowledge, resources, and experience gleaned from their particular background. Through collaboration and communication, the surgeons combine their knowledge to bring every

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Dr. Eric Burgon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hospitals

Dr. Alexander Consky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hospitals

patient the best, most informed care possible. Working alongside these experienced surgeons is a skillful support staff made up of surgical assistants, front-desk professionals, and management.

In addition to a seasoned team, the practice is also exceptional in its approach to surgery itself, including their utilization of the most advanced surgical techniques and state-of-the-art technology available. Before implementing these new techniques, Rockcliff Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery verifies that the results are unerringly supported by research and statistics, ensuring their patients’ safety and happiness.

Rockcliff Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery’s lineup of procedures is expansive, and many of those epitomize the innovative approach that sets the practice apart, like the full arch dental implant fixed prosthesis, which restores function, esthetics, and quality of life to patients with failing dentition. Another offering of note is the all-inclusive package for implant supported dentures called Revive-A-

Dr. Eric Warburton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hospitals

Smile. This concept provides patients with fully functioning teeth supported by dental implants in a single procedure, thanks to the combined efforts of Rockcliff Oral Surgery, your general dentist, and the dental lab, Image Dental Arts.

The expertise of the practice is available at four convenient locations: Asheville, Hendersonville, Waynesville, and Sylva. Rockcliff Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is also the only oral and maxillofacial surgery group in WNC that serves the region by taking facial trauma and lifethreatening infection calls 24/7 at Mission Hospital.

Managing these types of complicated cases demands that their surgeons continually update their knowledge base and keep their surgical skills sharp and focused.

Rockcliff Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery intends to continue their history of cutting-edge technique and technology, including incorporating the latest in digital scanning applications into their repertoire to improve safety, accuracy, and efficiency. And, as always, they’ll deliver those advanced services with a patient-centered focus.

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The Pardee UNC Health Care Breast Multidisciplinary Clinic is a new program at the Pardee Cancer Center that launched in September 2019. The Breast Multidisciplinary Clinic gives patients who have been diagnosed with breast cancer the opportunity to meet with multiple breast cancer specialists in a single half-day visit.

Patients will separately meet with Western North Carolina’s only female fellowship-trained breast surgeon, a radiation oncologist, a radiation oncologist, and a medical oncologist in the same exam room throughout their morning appointment.

This allows patients to complete all of their treatment consultations in one visit, rather than having to attend multiple appointments over several days.

During the Breast Multidisciplinary Clinic, patients will

also meet with a breast care nurse navigator, who offers personalized guidance through breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. If the patient is eligible for a clinical trial, they will also have an opportunity to talk with a member of the research team to discuss their options.

In addition to the breast surgeon, medical oncologists, radiation oncologist, and breast care nurse navigator, the Breast Multidisciplinary Clinic team includes an advanced nurse practitioner, mammography coordinator, breast care surgery nurse, and breast care nurse.

Pardee is a Certified Quality Breast Center of Excellence through the National Quality Measures for Breast Centers Program and is accredited by the National Accreditation for Breast Centers.

pardee unc health care cancer center 805 6th ave west, suite 100, hendersonville 28791 - 828.698.7334 - pardeehospital.org Kristy Capps, RN, BSN, CN-BN

John Hill, MD

Yaseen Zia, MD Jodi Rector, RN, BSN

Courtney Edney, RN, BSN Navin Anthony, DO Teresa Frady, RT (R)(M)

Jennifer McAlister, MD, FACS

Lynn Howie, MD

Kate Kennedy, ANP-BC

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Not pictured: James Radford, MD

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> >BANFIELD PET HOSPITAL 828-298-1800 banfield.com/veterinarians/nc/ asheville/ash

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> >CAT CARE CLINIC OF ASHEVILLE 828-645-7711 catcareclinicasheville.com

> >CEDAR RIDGE ANIMAL HOSPITAL 828-575-2430 cedarridgevet.com

> >CHARLOTTE STREET

ANIMAL HOSPITAL 828-232-0440 charlottestreetanimalhospital. com

> >HAW CREEK ANIMAL

HOSPITAL 828-298-1678 hawcreekanimalhospital.com

> >MOUNTAIN VALLEY

VETERINARY HOSPITAL 828-254-2122 mountainvalleyvet.com

> >OPEN DOOR

VETERINARY CARE 828-417-7768 opendoorveterinarycare.com

> >PEOPLE AND PETS

ACUPUNCTURE 828-254-2773 officeofpeopleandpetsacupuncture.com

> >REACH VETERINARY SPECIALISTS 828-665-4399 reachvet.com

> >REDWOOD ANIMAL

> >WESTERN CAROLINA

> >SKYLAND ANIMAL

> >WNC VETERINARY

HOSPITAL 828-298-1846 redwoodvetasheville.com

HOSPITAL 828-252-8644 skylandanimalhospital.com

> >SOUTHEAST

VETERINARY AND DERMATOLOGY CLINIC 828-385-6565 southeastvetderm.vet

> >SUNVET ANIMAL

WELLNESS CLINIC 828-254-2221 sunvetanimalwellness.com

> >SWEETEN CREEK ANIMAL & BIRD 828-684-8875 sweetencreekvet.com

> >THE PET VET ON PATTON 828-232-9990 petvetonpatton.com

> >UPSTATE VETERINARY

SPECIALISTS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ASHEVILLE 828-210-8285 upstatevet.com

> >WAGHAB

828-633-7004 waghab.com ARDEN

> >AVERY CREEK PET

HOSPITAL 828-651-8868 averycreekpethospital.com

> >BANFIELD PET HOSPITAL 828-681-0519 banfield.com

VETERINARY SURGERY 828-684-0019 wcvs.org HOSPITAL 828-684-3531 wncveterinaryhospital.com BANNER ELK

> >BLUE RIDGE VETERINARY CLINIC 828-963-6641 blueridgevetclinic.com

> >LINVILLE ANIMAL

HOSPITAL 828-898-8900 linvilleanimalhospital.com BLACK MOUNTAIN

> >BLUE RIDGE ANIMAL HOSPITAL 828-669-8719 brahinc.com

> >CATS CRADLE

828-490-3319 catscradlewnc.com BOONE

> >ANIMAL EMERGENCY CLINIC OF THE HIGH COUNTRY 828-268-2833 boonevet.net

> >ANIMAL HOSPITAL OF BOONE 828-264-7113

> >ANIMAL MEDICAL

CENTER OF BOONE 828-264-7007

> >PINNACLE ANIMAL

HOSPITAL 828-676-2332 pinnacleanimalhospital.com 67

> >APPALACHIAN NEW RIVER VETERINARY ASSOCIATES 828-278-8794 anrva.com

> >PET CARE CLINIC OF

THE HIGH COUNTRY 828-268-1159 boonevet.squarespace.com

828-667-0247 candlervet.org CASHIERS

> >CASHIERS VILLAGE

VETERINARY 828-743-5656 cashiers-village-veterinary. business.site

> >WATAUGA VETERINARY HOSPITAL 828-297-3300

> >WHISPERING WATERS ANIMAL CARE 828-264-8077 animalsnaturally.org

BREVARD

> >ANIMALS OF EDEN

VETERINARY HOSPITAL 828-884-3647 animalsofeden.com

> >BREVARD ANIMAL

HOSPITAL 828-883-8105 brevardanimalhospital.net

> >RIVERSONG VETERINARY CLINIC 828-862-8450 riversongvet.com

BRYSON CITY

> >BRYSON CITY

VETERINARY HOSPITAL 828-488-6018 brysoncityvet.com BURNSVILLE

> >BURNSVILLE

VETERINARY CLINIC 828-682-2100 burnsvillevetclinic.com

> >CANE RIVER VETERINARY WELLNESS 828-682-7710 canerivervet.com

CANDLER

> >CANDLER VETERINARY CLINIC 68

CLYDE

FLAT ROCK

> >ANIMALS R US

828-693-7387 animalsrus.vetstreet.com

> >WESTERN CAROLINA

REGIONAL ANIMAL HOSPITAL AND VETERINARY EMERGENCY HOSPITAL 828-697-7767 wcrah.com

> >COUNTRY LANE ANIMAL HOSPITAL 828-627-9100 clanimalhosp.com

COLUMBUS

> >BONNIE BRAE

VETERINARY HOSPITAL 828-894-6064 bonniebraeveterinaryhospital. com

> >DVM

828-859-6005 vetmed.umn.edu/dvm

> >THREE SPRINGS TACK REPAIR 828-817-0252 threespringstackrepair.com

> >TRYON EQUINE HOSPITAL 828-894-6065 tryonequine.com

ETOWAH

> >ETOWAH VALLEY

VETERINARY HOSPITAL 828-890-1401 etowahvalleyvethospital vetstreet.com FAIRVIEW

> >FAIRVIEW ANIMAL HOSPITAL 828-628-3557 facebook.com

> >FAIRVIEW KENNELS 828-628-1997 fairviewkennels.net

FLETCHER

> >FLETCHER ANIMAL

HOSPITAL 828-684-4244 fletcheranimalhospital.com

> >WHITE OAK VETERINARY HOSPITAL 828-687-2803 whiteoakvet.net

FOREST CITY

> >NOAH'S ARK

COMPANION ANIMAL HOSPITAL 828-363-9811 noahsarkvet.us HENDERSONVILLE

> >ALL SAINTS ANIMAL

HOSPITAL 828-697-1717 allsaintsanimalhospital.com

> >ANIMAL CARE CLINIC 828-692-7201 animalcareclinicnc.com

> >APPLE VALLEY ANIMAL HOSPITAL (EQUINE MOBILE VET) 828-685-1650 avvets.com

> >HAYWOOD ANIMAL HOSPITAL 828-697-0446 haywoodvet.com

> >FOOTHILLS ANIMAL

> >HENDERSONVILLE

CLINIC 828-248-2168 foothillsanimalclinicnc.com

VETERINARY HOSPITAL 828-692-0561 hendersonvillevets.com

> >FOREST CITY ANIMAL

> >KANUGA ANIMAL CLINIC

HOSPITAL 828-229-3250 facebook.com

> >TRI-CITY ANIMAL CLINIC

828-692-0941 myhendersonvillevet.com

> >LAUREL PARK ANIMAL

828-286-2326 tricityanimalclinic.com

HOSPITAL 828-697-5686 laurelparkanimalhospital.com

FRANKLIN

> >NORTH STATE ANIMAL

> >ANIMAL HOUSE

VETERINARY CLINIC 828-524-9990 leapoffaithvet.com

HOSPITAL 828-692-1902 northstatevet.com

HIGHLANDS

> >FRANKLIN VETERINARY

> >ANIMAL WELLNESS

> >LENZO ANIMAL

> >HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS

HOSPITAL 828-369-8080 franklinvethospital.com

HOSPITAL 828-369-2635 lenzoanimalhospital.wixsite. com/mysite

HOSPITAL OF HIGHLANDS 828-526-8700 awhhighlands.com ANIMAL CLINIC 828-526-5206 highlands-cashiersanimalclinic. com

HORSE SHOE

> >MERRY FOREST ANIMAL HOSPITAL 828-890-2471 facebook.com

LAKE LURE

> >WAGS AND WHISKERS PET WELLNESS CLINIC 828-436-5043 lakelurevet.com MARION

> >ANIMAL HOSPITAL OF MARION 828-724-4774 facebook.com

> >CRESTVIEW VETERINARY HOSPITAL 828-659-2060 crestviewvets.com

> >FOOTHILLS MOBILE

VETERINARY SERVICE 828-728-3883 foothillsmobilevet.com MARS HILL

> >MADISON COUNTY ANIMAL CLINIC 828-689-5711

MILLS RIVER

> >HEALTH CARE FOR PETS HOSPITAL 828-891-4848 healthcareforpets.net

> >MILLS RIVER ANIMAL CLINIC 828-891-9685 millsriveranimalclinic.com

> >VISTA FALLS VETERINARY HOSPITAL 828-513-5134 vistafallsvet.com

MURPHY

> >ALPINE VETERINARY HOSPITAL 828-837-6115 docdolittle.com

> >TRI STATE SPAY NEUTER CLINIC 828-837-4500 tristatespayneuterclinic.com

> >TRICOUNTY ANIMAL CLINIC 828-837-0050 tri-countyanimalclinic.com NEWLAND

> >AVERY ANIMAL HOSPITAL 828-733-9810 averyanimalhospital.net

PISGAH FOREST

> >PISGAH PET CARE ANIMAL HOSPITAL 828-883-5798 pisgahpetcare.com

ROBBINSVILLE

> >LAGNIAPPE ANIMAL HOSPITAL 828-479-4849 lagniappeanimal.com

RUTHERFORDTON

> >BUCHANAN MOBILE

SPRUCE PINE

> >MITCHELL VETERINARY HOSPITAL 828-765-6039 mitchellcountyvet.com

> >STEWART’S MOUNTAIN VIEW ANIMAL 828-765-7059 facebook.com

SWANNANOA

> >BEACON VETERINARY HOSPITAL 828-686-3828 mybeaconvet.com

> >SWANNANOA VALLEY ANIMAL HOSPITAL 828-299-1433 swannanoavet.com SYLVA

> >COPE CREEK ANIMAL HOSPITAL 828-586-3534 copecreekah.com

> >SMOKY MOUNTAIN

VETERINARY SERVICES 954-789-7783 buchananmobilevet.com

INTEGRATIVE VETERINARY CLINIC 828-586-3300 shearerpethealth.com

> >RUTHERFORD

> >SYLVA ANIMAL HOSPITAL:

VETERINARY HOSPITAL 828-286-9335 rutherfordvethospital.com SALUDA

> >SALUDA VETERINARY

HOSPITAL 828-749-2340 saludaveterinaryhospital.com SPINDALE

> >HINKLE’S PET HOSPITAL 828-287-5899 hinklespethospital.com

> >RUTHERFORD LARGE ANIMAL SERVICES 828-288-0199 rutherfordlargeanimal.com

RICK WALL, DVM 828-586-8587 sylvaanimalhospital.com

WAYNESVILLE

> >ANIMAL HOSPITAL OF WAYNESVILLE 828-456-9755 animalhosp.com

> >JUNALUSKA ANIMAL HOSPITAL 828-452-1478 junaluskaah.com

> >MAPLE TREE VETERINARY

HOSPITAL AND DOG CAMP 828-452-5211 mapletreevet.com

> >RAHAMA KENNEL AND CATTERY 828-452-2176 rahamakennel.com

WEAVERVILLE

> >ALLEN ANIMAL HOSPITAL 828-658-2287 facebook.com

> >ANIMAL HOSPITAL AT REEMS CREEK 828-658-0099 reemscreekah.com

> >APPALACHIAN ANIMAL HOSPITAL 828-658-8989 appalachianvet.net

> >BROAD RIVER ANIMAL HOSPITAL 828-484-7771 broadrivervets.com

> >MOUNTAIN ANIMAL

HOSPITAL 828-645-1616 mountainanimalhospital.com WHITTIER

> >CHEROKEE ANIMAL CARE CLINIC 828-497-3401 cherokeeanimalcare.com

> >BALSAM ANIMAL HOSPITAL 828-452-1868 balsamvet.com

> >HAYWOOD ANIMAL EMERGENCY 828-452-1478 haywoodanimaler.com

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A Little Bit About Us And Our Media Presence: Capital at Play, currently in its tenth year of publication, is Western North Carolina’s business lifestyle magazine. It embodies the idea that capitalism thrives with creativity— that work requires an element of play. Exploring everything from local industry to the great outdoors, Capital at Play is inspiration for the modern entrepreneur.

We profile those who take the risk, those who share that risk, and those who support them—telling the untold story of how capitalists are driven by their ideas and passions.

We cater to those who see the world with curiosity, wonderment, and a thirst for knowledge. We present information and entertainment that businesspeople want, all in one location. We are the free spirit of enterprise.

Capital at Play strives to offer a unique selection of original content, ranging from news briefs and columns, to economic sector reports and individual profiles. And between our editorial staff, expert columnists, and roster of veteran reporters, we take pride in being able to present that content in an insightful yet entertaining manner, accompanied by relevant data points and placed into the proper context. The magazine’s sections are as follow:

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Columns

Those who take risks and inspire others to do likewise— entrepreneurs and business owners from industries throughout the private sector. The kinds of individuals who have unique stories to tell and experiences to share. This section is foundational to our existence as a company, and our goal is to humanize entrepreneurs and share their trials, tribulations, and successes so that others can learn from them.

Well-reasoned, relatable articles by local, credible people recognized regionally, nationally, and globally for their knowledge and expertise—their insights and opinions are backed up by their real-world experiences that they are enthusiastic about sharing.

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News Briefs From the Western North Carolina town you’re in to various locales throughout the state, you won’t find the same business information—breaking, developing, and otherwise—in one magazine anywhere.

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