Members of NAI Avant Commercial Real Estate Services gave an appreciation party for their clients Tuesday evening, April 14, 2009, at the Columbia Museum of Art. The company was celebrating its 26th year in business and also recognizing the brokers for receiving all four of the top awards at the Central Carolina Realtors Association Commercial Awards banquet. The brokers received the market's Top Overall Producer, Top Sales Agent, Top Leasing Agent, and Commercial Transaction of the Year Award. The NAI Avant team has a long history of delivering services that include: Investment Sales • Sales and Leasing for Office, Retail and Industrial Properties • Development Sites • Build- To- Suit Leases • Retail Owner Representation • Office Owner Representation • Tenant Representation n Land, Timberland and Recreational Acreage Sales • Single- Family and Multi- Family Development Tracts • Mixed- Use Properties • Adaptive and Reuse Projects • Sale/Leasebacks.

Paul Hartley, NAI Avant; Roger Winn, NAI Avant; and U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R- S.C.) Rep. Joe Wilson and Elie Abikhaled, A Taste of the South Joe Taylor, SC Secretary of Commerce, and Leighton Lord, Nexsen Pruet Steve Benjamin, McAngus Goudelock & Courie, and Paul Livingston, Richland County Council Alan Kahn, Kahn Development, and Robert King, NAI Avant Rosalie Hamilton, NAI Avant; Dan Avant, NAI Avant; and Tom McTeer, McTeer Real Estate Co. Todd Avant, NAI Avant, and Matt Mungo, Mungo Construction Kevin Markland, Wachovia Bank, a Wells Fargo Company; Ben Arnold, Arnold Companies, and Derek Raper, Wachaovia Bank, a Wells Fargo Company Rob Lapin, NAI Avant; Greg Lapointe, Wachovia Bank, a Wells Fargo Company; and Ike McLeese, Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce Frank Walker, RBM of Columbia; Macon Lovelace, NAI Avant; and David Lominack, Carolina First Kimberly Riley, McWaters; Chip Salak, McWaters; and Ben Kelly, NAI Avant Bruce Harper, NAI Avant, and Gary Pennington, Pennington Law Firm Lloyd Kapp, Kapp Investment Management; Boyd Jones, NBSC; and Charles McCallum, McCallum Company Walter Taylor, Walter Taylor & Company; Mike Fitts, Columbia Regional Business Report; and Steven Mungo, Mungo Homes Ashley Batson, Finkel Law Firm, and Bess Satcher, NAI Avant Stick Thibodeaux, Kahn Development, and Gene Dinkins, Cox & Dinkins Damon Jeter, Richland County Council, and Paul Livingston, Richland County Council Alicia Harper, Jerry Kline, and Cindy Stallings, Nan's Notes Nathan Hedges, Holder Properties, and Tyler Hudson, First Citizen's Bank John McArthur, Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, and Lee Marsha, NAI Avant Kirkman Finlay III, Columbia City Council, and Tom McTeer, McTeer Real Estate Preston Grisham, Rep. Joe Wilson's office; Ed Parler, Central Carolina Alliance, and Jim Hazel, Elliott Davis NAI Avant greeters: Kelly Gallentine, Laura Anderson, Paige Hamilton, Jade Swords, and Lexie Smith Bruce Harper, NAI Avant; Rob Lapin,NAI Avant; Jerry Kline; and Todd Avant, NAI Avant Tom Milliken, NAI Avant, and Wick Stuart, Berry Quackenbush & Stuart Hal Cottingham, NAI Avant, and Patrick Chambers, NAI Avant John Temple Ligon, The Columbia Star, and Fritz Waidner Joe Taylor, SC Secretary of Commerce, and Henry Haiz, The State