Today is Drive Business Downtown with YOUR Greenville Drive presented by Ernst and Young

This morning on The Ellis and Bradley Show, The Drive's Craig Brown and Jessica Dornan with Ernst and Young talked about today's Drive Business Downtown!! It's a GREAT DAY FOR BASEBALL at Fluor Field! First pitch at 2:05!

Episode Transcript

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The Ellison Brownie Show. It isWednesday morning, and we are excited because
today at two o'clock, we havegot baseball at floor Field Drive. Business
Downtown presented by Ernston Young. Veryreally special day for downtown Greenville. It's
our neighborhood. It is it isbringing business this together. We moved here
in the studios that we come toyou from. Now. We've been here

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for about since the early nineties.Oh yeah, and back then you really
didn't go west of Macbee. No, you didn't, not much down there.
And now the downtown Greenville area isa showcase for great food, for
great shopping, great baseball. Ohyeah, I got a great time today
and one of the one of thefolks who really did bring business downtown.

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It's really the cornerstone. Would liketo say is Greenville's front porch is our
Greenville Drive and it's man. CraigBrown is with us this morning. Good
morning sir, Morningville, Good morningBeth. How are you. You're wonderful
and a big day today at floorField tell us what's happening today at two
o'clock. It's one of my favoritedays of the year. It's our twelfth
annual Business Downtown and we've just gota wonderful event that's just celebrating our downtown.

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And you know, we think wehave a wonderful, wonderful downtown,
as you just said, but wewant to make sure it stays wonderful and
we continue to appreciate it, continueto invest in it. And it's been
wonderful for all the many businesses.Now for Drive Business Downtown, they said
the twelve time around the block.For this one. We have a new
partner in that that's Ernston Young,and we're very very excited about that.

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I mean, Ernston Young doesn't reallyneed an introduction. I mean they're one
of the pre eminent accounting firms inthe world, and we're very pleased to
have Jessicadona and their managing partner,who's not only the managing partner for Inston
Young, but she's also extremely activein our community. Our purpose as a
firm is really to build a betterworking world, and that's through creating long

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term value for our clients, ourpeople in our society. And we really
see this as our investment in thecommunity. We're all in here. We
believe in Greenville, we believe inthe business community, and so this is
really important. It's a pretty speciallyremarkable place. And it's because people took
a chance on it and keep thegreen space too. A lot of you
know, we have the businesses andwe love that, but it's also you

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get guinea bigger in the ball park. You know, as far as green
space goes, it's just so niceand comfortable, and you feel when you
bring your family downtown for toolball game, you feel safe. And Craig just
Craig, and you could have broughta baseball team anywhere you wanted to.
Why why did you choose Greenville?There's a certain magic about Greenville. I
say, the secret sauce is justGreenville's ability to collaborate. And I mean

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everybody has, you know, challengesin life and the like, but in
Greenville, we tend to do what'sbest for the community and then everybody kind
of fits with under that umbrella andthat we try to be a convenier to
make all that happen. Well,it's going to happen today. We're just
so excited. It's Drive Business Downtown, presented by Ernst and Young. Two
o'clock. First pitch, Oh oh. By the way, if you're a
fan of the White claws. I'mtelling you what, three bucks for the

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game. It's a great opportunity tocome on downtown, meet other folks and
just you know, aberate and enjoygreat baseball games. It's one of the
great ideas. And it's happening todayunder sunshine skies with a hive of about
eighty degrees, the perfect day forbaseball. That is a Craig Brown endorsed
forecast. Get out there, we'llsee at floor Field today