We feel lucky to have been able to help sponsor two families through Big Brothers Big Sisters of WNC this December. Folks at Vision Design Collaborative and Horizons Wealth Management joined with us to make this happen. Big Brothers Big Sisters of WNC is a fantastic organization and is giving back to the community in such an immediate way.
For more about what they do, go to http://www.bbbswnc.org/.
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Ellington Realty Group is proud to have worked together with these great folks in the lease for this fantastic new pizza joint near Brevard Road. Make sure to go, and check out the gorgeous handcrafted bar top while you’re there.
As reported in the Mountain Xpress on November 6, 2018:
Admiral+Desoto+Tastee Diner=Galactic
Galactic Pizza, one of West Asheville’s newest restaurants, has a solid West Asheville pedigree. Owners are Jonathan Robinson, part owner of The Admiral, and Natalia Robinson, of Tastee Diner. Other owners are Sabrina White and Tim McMurrin, owners of Desoto Lounge, and Doug Ellington, who owns the Sardis Road building that Galactic Pizza is in. Galactic Pizza opened Thursday, Oct. 25, serving New York-style pizza with a crust made from cake yeast, which gives it a moistness that dry yeast doesn’t, Jonathan Robinson says. The restaurant will offer standard toppings, but also homemade vegan pepperoni and cheese. The chicken banh mi pizza was a big hit during the soft opening in late October, he says.
Galactic Pizza is at 339 Sardis Road. Hours are 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m.-midnight Friday and Saturday.
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Fabulous time Saturday at the Preservation Society gala, with a trip beginning in the 1870s at Fernihurst Mansion atop Vernon Hill. We then continued on to the 1920s, when we visited the Mediterranean mansion Chiles House in Kenilworth. We ended with founding father-inspired New Gunston Hall in Biltmore Forest. All just exemplary places that we felt lucky to get to see.
The fantastic live music and cocktails by The Times at S&W were icing on the cake. Asheville has such a rich and interesting history, and we are proud to be a part of helping to preserve that.
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One of the very best parts of our job is working with the innovative, driven and deeply interesting clients that we work with. One of the best examples of those is long-time Ellington Realty Group clients Meherwan and Molly Irani of the famed Asheville restaurant Chai Pani.
Eater Atlanta published last week:
Chai Pani and Botiwalla chef-owner Meherwan Irani is expanding his Indian street food mini empire. Irani has confirmed he is opening three more metro Atlanta Botiwalla locations in the next year, and as many as eight to ten more locations over the next five years throughout the southeast. Irani’s future plans could include as many as 50 Botiwallas.
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The Asheville City Building is a colorful, massive and eclectic Art Deco masterpiece. Douglas D. Ellington, an architect who came to Asheville in the mid-1920s, designed the eight-story building, which was completed in 1928.
Originally proposed as part of a joint City-County Plaza development, the City Hall represents the progressive aspirations of the city in the 1920s.
For more, go to: https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/asheville/cit.htm
We were proud to have represented the fine owners of Chai Pani when they opened their very first location on Battery Park. Now, that space has just undergone a renovation where the flavors can be bigger and better than ever and the restaurant can better serve it’s loyal customers.
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Check out this very interesting article from Sunday’s Asheville Citizen-Times about Douglas Ellington and the way that his vision helped to shape the city of Asheville:
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Ellington Realty Group was proud to be one of the lead sponsors of the 2nd Annual Gala of the Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County on Saturday night. What an incredible night, filled with beautiful architecture, lively music, good food and drink, and great people. The evening started at the YMI Cultural Center in downtown Asheville, and then guests traveled by trolley to the Sondley House in Haw Creek (pictured here) and historic Zealandia Castle. The evening ended with champagne and dessert atop the Biltmore building downtown. Funds raised support the mission of this important foundation: Through preserving and promoting the unique historic resources of our region, we work to sustain the heritage and the sense of place that is Asheville and Buncombe County. To learn more about the Preservation Society, go to psabc.org.
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We are proud to have represented the visionaries behind Buxton Hall in their beautiful space on Buxton. This write-up in Bon Appetit simply recognizes what Asheville already knows – this BBQ, and the space where it is served, are amazing!
http://www.bonappetit.com/story/buxton-hall-asheville
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