Economic Development & Public Policy Committee Meeting8-9:30 a.m. | Thursday, June 4 | Chamber

Leadership Chapel Hill-Carrboro Casino Night7-10 p.m. | Thursday, June 4 The Franklin Hotel

Leadership Chapel Hill-Carrboro Class of 2015 Graduation Wednesday, June 10 | Congrats, grads!

Non-Profi t Roundtable4-5:30 p.m. | Wednesday, June 10 Chamber

Retail Roundtable7:30-8:45 a.m. | Tuesday, June 16 Chamber

Chapel Hill Young Professionals presented by DSI Comedy5:30-7:30 p.m. | Tuesday, June 16 Bailey’s Irish Pub Business After Hours 5:30-7:30 p.m. | Thursday, June 18 Check carolinachamber.org/events for location

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Non-Profi t SpotlightRonald McDonald House

• Highwire Solutions, LLC (919) 619-1482 | highwiresolutions.net • Tom + Chee | (919) 949-2166 tomandchee.com

• Chapel Hill Country Club (919) 932-2861 | chcountryclub.com • Hope From Notes | (919) 637-3589

• riithink | (919) 903-9274 | riithink.com

• Micell Technologies, Inc. (919) 313-2102 | micell.com

• La Boutique Lane | (919) 518-9320 lblhome.com

• YP | (919) 854-3000 adsolutions.att.com

• The Strowd | (919) 929-0101 thestrowd.com

Find more members!Visit our business directory of Chamber members at carolinachamber.org!

New Members

Celebrate your grad with a new THINKpad!Whether your new grad is headed off to college or a new career, a new Lenovo is the way to go! The laptop and tablet options are full of powerful tools and apps to set your grad up for success. See the selection and incredible value at lenovo.com/carolinachamber.

Using our online portal is super easy! Go to lenovo.com/carolinachamber and enter the passcode: ChapelHill (capital “C”, capital “H”, all one word). You instantly get the corporate employee program pricing. Any questions about this or any other money saving partnership? Contact Justin at jsimmons@carolinachamber.org.

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Q: Could you tell us more about your company’s new housing incentive program for public employees? Until now, most people who have great jobs serving the Chapel Hill community and the University have been forced to choose be-tween two extremes: newer, luxury apartments that cost too much and older, more affordable apartments that lack the modern finishes and amenities that renters today expect and desire. Eller’s decision to redevelop existing properties, instead of tearing them down and rebuilding from the ground up, has provided Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents with the modern apart-ments that they demand but haven’t previously had access to in Chapel Hill.

Find more information about the program available to Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Orange County, and UNC employees at the Chamber’s SlideShare account: bit.ly/1Mw6LAS.

Q: What’s your forecast for the Chapel Hill market, and what kind of long-term results do you expect?Eller Capital feels strongly that both the top and the middle of the market are currently under-

served. Chapel Hill experienced a development boom in the 1970s and a smaller one in the mid-1980s. Very little multifamily product was built in Chapel Hill in the 1990s and 2000s. With only 430 multifamily units built in the last decade, this has created a market situation in which many of the people who work in Chapel Hill and have great jobs are not able to find the quality of housing that meets their demands.

Eller Capital Partners, recognizing the imbalance of the multifamily market in Chapel Hill, began to pursue major renovations of older multifam-ily assets with the goal of offering a product that has new, luxury finishes at a price in the middle of the older, less desirable assets and those assets that are desirable and have been built within the last 10 years (but may be more expensive than what most people who work in Chapel Hill are willing to pay).

Congratulations to Daniel Eller, who was recently awarded CHYP Young Professional of the Year at the Business Excellence Awards, the BEAs! For more information on Eller’s apart-ment communities, visit LivingChapelHill.com.

Daniel Eller, President and CEO of Eller Capital Partners.

Major Investor Spotlight:Daniel Eller with Eller Capital PartnersEller Capital Partners, a multifamily investment, development and property management company based in Chapel Hill, joined the Cham-ber in October 2014 and launched its program for public employees at the Chamber’s Economic Outlook Briefing earlier this year.

Adriana Pop, Associate Editor at Multi-Housing News, sat down with Daniel Eller, President & CEO, to talk about the company. Here are a few excerpts from the interview:

Hats off to the 2015 class of Leadership Chapel Hill-Carrboro! • Jessica Aylor, Triangle Community Foundation

• Marlene Barbera, Chapel Hill/Orange

County Visitors Bureau

• Bridget Baucom, UNC Facilities

• Camille Berry, Community Home Trust

• Cathy Brennan, UNC Environment,

Health & Safety

• Rebecca Cates, UNC Health Care

• Roger Chapin, Chapel Hill Transit

• Melissa Dombrowski, Chapel Hill School

of Musical Arts

• Misty Drake, Piedmont Health Services

• Rasheen French, UNC Health Care

• Susan Gardner, UNC Health Care

• Kathryn Handley, UNC Hospitals

• Patsy Holmes, Chapel Hill Carrboro YMCA

• Brianna Honea, Women’s Birth &

Wellness Center

• Joe Jetevu

• Nicholas Johnson, Chapel Hill-Carrboro

Chamber of Commerce

• Mary Beth Koza, UNC-Chapel Hill

• Jaclyn Krohn, Durham Tech Community

College - Orange County Campus

• Kellye Murphy, Bank of North Carolina

• Alex Nickodem, Habitat for Humanity ReStore

• Jennifer Player, Habitat for Humanity of

Orange County

• Alison Pope, Communities in Schools of

Orange County

• Marianne Ratcliffe, Piedmont Health SeniorCare

• Tamara Rice, Slice Interactive

• Ashley Simmons, Wells Fargo

• LisaMarie Smith, LisaMarie Smith LLC

• Amatullah Stanback, Blue Ribbon

Mentor-Advocate

• Wilhelmina Steen, UNC-Chapel Hill

• BJ Tipton, UNC-Chapel Hill

To find out more about our signature leadership development program, please visit carolinachamber.org/leadership.

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Congratulations to our BEAs winners! What a great group honored at the fi rst annual Business Excellence Awards! Micro-Enterprise Business of the YearCommunity Empowerment Fund

Mid-Size Business of the Year presented by Bank of North CarolinaAl’s Burger Shack

Large Business of the Year presented by SunTrustSummit Engineering and Design Services

Non-Profi t of the Year presented by Triangle Community FoundationCompass Center for Women and Families

Business Woman of the YearKim Calandra, Carrboro Community Acupuncture

CHYP Young Professional of the YearDaniel Eller, Eller Capital Partners

New Business of the YearGreen Beagle LodgeFinalists: Hickory Tavern and La Boutique Lane

Innovation AwardCommunigift | Finalists: Ocutech and UNC Health Care’s Nutrition & Food Services

Community ImpactStudent Health Action CoalitionFinalists: Carrboro Farmers’ Market and SCORE Chapel Hill

University Born BusinessABAN | Finalists: Rho and Terra Dotta

Thanks so much to our BEAs sponsors: University Mall, Triangle Community Foundation, SunTrust, Bank of North Carolina, The Chapel Hill News, Curtis Media Group, The Town of Carrboro and Aveda Institute Chapel Hill.