Photos contributed by Philip White, director of marketing for NAI avant (l- r) NAI Avant greeters Jade Swords, Jaime Dugan, Britta Trigg, Lexie Smith, and Allie Barber surround Gene Green of NAI Avant The main lobby area of the Columbia Museum of Art was filled with associates and friends of Columbia- based real estate services from NAI Avant Tuesday, April 15, 2008, from 6 pm- 8 pm. There was no speech and no program, just every opportunity to meet and greet among the invitation- only crowd and the employees and management of NAI Avant.

Lowell Bernstein, Bernstein and Bernstein and Charles Kahn, Kahn Development Jerry Kline; Bruce Harper, NAI Avant; and Bill and Bonnie Harper Boyd Jones, NBSC, and Dan Avant, NAI Avant Jeff Larimore, and Ben Arnold, The Arnold Companies; and Tom Milliken, NAI Avant Dick Stanland, NAI Avant; Joe Berry, Berry, Quackenbush, and Stuart; and Cooper James, T. Cooper James and Associates Mike Dawson, River Alliance; Michael Kapp, Carolina First; and Keith McLeod, BP Barber Tom McTeer,McTeer Real Estate Company, and Walter Monteith, NAI Avant Grant Jackson, Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce, and Ed Parler, Central SC Alliance John Holder, Holder Properties, and Ron Anderson, NAI Avant