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NETWORKING GREATER DURHAM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE’S ANNUAL MEETING
Photography by Ken Huth
The Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual meeting at The Carolina Theatre on March 9 in a fun, new format befitting the event venue. Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Geoff Durham hosted “The Durham Show,” complete with a monologue that shared how Durham is “getting back to doing business better than we did before,” recognition of the 2022 Bull City Hall of Fame honorees and a round of the “top 10 things you don’t know about Durham,” which included the announcement of DPLEX. “[We are] beginning to market The Carolina Theatre, the Durham Convention Center, the Durham Arts Council and the Durham Armory together as the Durham Convention and Arts Complex, or DPLEX for short,” said Discover Durham’s Susan Amey. “This collaboration will enable Durham to compete for larger conventions, meetings and festivals while showcasing our creative and arts community to event attendees.” The show concluded with the commemorative passing of the gavel followed by networking and lunch at the Durham Convention Center.
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Fame honorees former Durham County Commissioner Ellen Reckhow, former Mayor Steve Schewel, former Durham Public Schools’ Board of Education member Minnie Forte-Brown and former Durham County Manager Wendell Davis with Durham Chamber President and CEO Geoff Durham (center). (Honoree not pictured: former City Manager Tom Bonfield.)
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president of economic development for the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce, shares a few facts about Durham, including that, since the pandemic started, there have been 14 major economic development announcements in Durham County alone, representing 7,000 new jobs – which account for nearly half of all the new jobs that have come to the Triangle region in the same time period – and more than $2 billion in new capital investment for our community.
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Furniture owners Jenny Danielson and Scott Danielson.
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Chamber Board Chair Adri Maisonet Morales of BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina (right) passes the gavel to incoming Board Chair Adam Klein of American Underground and American Tobacco Campus.
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Credit Union’s Tamara Stanley and Shelley Fullwood of Olive & Olive, P.A.
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