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Designers turn entrepreneurs
Heather Mays - Thu, Mar, 11, 2010
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| Simpatico designers Daniela Heath and Miriam Allen rearranged an upstairs nook for a Farragut client to better show off the unique space. |
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Two local designers are using economic-driven layoffs as an opportunity to become entrepreneurs.
Daniela Heath and Miriam Allen have founded Simpatico Design, a home and real estate staging company.
“Home staging is popular everywhere else, but just not in Knoxville, so we want to educate people about home staging and how it can help sell a home faster,” Heath, an architect and native of Germany, said.
“Home staging is detailing, de-cluttering, depersonalizing, re-designing, and preparing a seller’s home to give it a model-home appearance so that the potential buyer can better imagine themselves living in the home.
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Chamber networks with Farragut Foundation
- Thu, Mar, 11, 2010
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| Tavis MacLellan, an FHS student, showed off “Penny” the robot to Farragut-area businessmen and women. Penny is named for JCPenney, who partnered with the school to build the robot. - Heather Mays/farragutpress |
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Farragut High School’s Education Foundation held a breakfast networking with Farragut West Knox Chamber of Commerce at McAlister’s Deli, Thursday, Feb. 18. “This is one day we get to show you what the future looks like,” FHS principal Michael Reynolds told Chamber members. He urged local business owners to partner with the school, either in funding, time, mentoring or even hosting interns. “Our students achieve. That doesn’t just happen without people being involved. What does the future bring? It’s in your hands,” Reynolds added.
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Chamber plans brown bag lunch
Heather Mays - Thu, Mar, 11, 2010
For the first time since the Farragut West Knox Chamber of Commerce initiated them, a Brown Bag Lunch series sold out and had to be moved to a larger venue.
Steve Herzog, owner of Sandler Training, Herzog & Associates in Knoxville, is the event’s speaker, Wednesday, March 10.
His topic will be “Creating demand for your product and services: your future depends on it.”
“The biggest problem I see from business to business and in retail sale right now is generating more top-line revenue growth,” Herzog said.
“People seem to be stuck on how to generate new revenue versus simply filling demand, as they have mostly done in the past better economy,” he added.
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D1 Sports relocating to Hardin Valley
Heather Mays - Thu, Mar, 11, 2010
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| This rendering shows how D1 Sports’ new facility off Hardin Valley Road, currently under construction, will look when completed. - Photo Submitted |
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D1 Sports is relocating from its location off Lexington Drive to Hardin Valley.
The new facility is expected to open in June.
“First of all, we’re moving because of size. We ran out of space where we’re at right now,” Bruce Nicoara, facility coordinator, said.
“And as far as Hardin Valley, it’s an area of growth and we’re looking to move into an area where there’s a possibility to expand,” he added.
D1 has been at its Lexington Drive location for five years.
“We’ve just outgrown it in the past few years,” Nicoara said.
D1 trains everyone from athletes to children.
“Our motto is ‘The Place for the Athlete,’ but we train kids from age 7 all the way up to adults,” Nicoara said.
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business briefs
- Thu, Mar, 11, 2010
• Knoxville Music Club, a member of the National Federation of Music Clubs and Tennessee Federation of Music Clubs, showcased a concert of piano solos and duets composed by Jeanne Costello, president of the Knoxville Music Club, and Myra Brooks-Turner of MBT Productions. The selections performed are being considered as possible required compositions in the 2011-2013 National Federation of Music Clubs Festival Bulletin. For more information, e-mail myrabrooksturner@aol.com
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