nobody who is attending the event today, we appreciate your support of the
project and everything that's going on, everything that that we're gonna be
doing over the next couple of months and and furthermore over the next, you
know, many years to come when this project kind of comes to fruition,
there's a couple people we wanted to thank for being in attendance more than
anybody. So Senator Sharon Hewitt, who is here, we thank you for attending,
represented Mary Dubuisson and President Mike Cooper,
also, Councilman J Carey was here a little bit earlier and had to leave for
an event so we wanted to thank him as well. Um on top of our invited guests,
we have a bunch of people here from from Pizza, we the company that's going
to be building and developing this resort and we wanted to point them out
to you so that during the event you have an opportunity to to introduce
yourselves and talk with them. Um we have our Chief Marketing Officer Todd
lawyer over here will be coming out in a couple minutes
tied in the back, he's got a special special presentation coming up, Stephan
huber, our Chief Development Officer
Derek stevens from, from corporate and and I think that's it from our team
that's here. Okay. Um so a couple of months ago we were out in the community
prior to the council meeting, having conversation with the community to to
figure out a name for this resort and one of the things that we did was we
solicited uh input from the community for that and we had over 7000 entrance
for the possible naming of the resort. we took all those names, brought him
back to our team, outside marketing firms, A bunch of different people kind
of thinking about what this name of this resort could be, that would
highlight the community, highlight the the luxury quality of the resort and
everything that we are hoping to build. Um over the of the 7000 entrance, we
actually had one lucky winner that submitted the name that is actually
you're going to see in a video in a couple of minutes that's actually here
and that winter is going to receive $5,000 and one of the coolest things
that I get to do in a very long time is to say that that person is actually
here today and so we get a chance to call up Kimberly fraidy come up Mhm.
Come up
And and accept and accept a check for $5,000 for coming up with the name of
this resort. And as much as we have highly paid marketing people and
everything, Kimberly Freeney is the person that is uh
not that I want to, yes,
so thank you very much. Yeah. Yeah, congratulations,
we actually have a real size check for you coming. Not just that, why it
doesn't Yeah, so with that uh we want to say thank you Kimberly and also I
want to introduce todd Moyer who's our chief marketing officer who's going to
be kind of settling this, this event over to uh to the naming and the the
actual vision for the resort, so thank you very much.
Uh thank you very much, I would be remiss if I didn't also thank Kimberly
for your work at the hospital and battling this pandemic on the front
line to keep all of us safe and I see you have some of your co workers here,
so maybe we could take a minute and just thank them very much. So thank you,
I'm gonna talk a little bit about our company philosophy, I know you're here
to see the video, but I gotta set it up because three things we stand for and
you'll hear this at every every moment we can, it's quality service and
community. You're gonna see the quality of the property in just a minute. When
you see the video, we have much more to show you as we peek inside and we peel
off the layers over the next couple of weeks. But today's sneak peek, I think
we'll leave you uh actually taken back a little bit, it's breathtaking service.
I can't show you service today other than are my personal commitment and our
team that's here today, but I will tell you this, our job is to show you a good
time. Not one time, but every time you come to one of our properties and we
guarantee that Community, community is something means a lot to us and
community has a lot of branches to it. One of course is our philanthropy, this
company has given away over $90 million 60,000 hours of working in communities
where we operate so we're very proud of that. But we also when we moved to a
new community we go and try to build a property there. We don't build a
property that we want, we don't come with any preconceived notions, we talk
to people and we get their input on what we should build and here ST
Tammany is no different. We met with thousands of people both from the east
from the west in large groups and small groups online and in person and from
that we created the property that you're about to see. So if you see
something you like don't thank us take credit for it yourself because these
ideas were yours. So I think without any further ado jr you ready? Let's cue
up the video, thank you for coming.
Mhm. Yeah. Okay
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introducing Camelia Bay resort casino and marina.
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