Networking Reception // 5 pm-6 pm
Dinner and Program // 6 pm-8:30 pm
Admission // DRA - $50 / Non-Members - $60
RSVP Deadline // Monday, February 14

Registration (Register via credit card with MasterCard or Visa online) // Closed

Breaking Ground with the Creative Class

Join us for an evening of tantalizing treats, exciting entertainment, and featured guest speaker Carol Colleta, President of CEOs for Cities. 

Coletta will define the success formula for cities and creative communities and share a strategic assessment of downtown Raleigh's potential for harnessing creative thinkers. Join us for a fascinating evening as we highlight our culture and showcase downtown as a hub for the creative class.

Celebrate

The Downtown Raleigh Alliance invites you to our Annual Meeting and Downtown Achievement Awards program to honor, recognize and celebrate the contributions of individuals, businesses and organizations that are making downtown Raleigh a more vibrant urban core.

We will also provide a view into what is next for this dynamic, quickly evolving, downtown center.  You can expect an atypical evening in Raleigh with many surprises as we highlight our culture and vision as a community. 

Achievement Awards

One of the main highlights of the evening will be the Downtown Achievement Awards program. Each year, downtown Raleigh is greatly enhanced by projects completed through partnerships of individuals, organizations, businesses, and governments.

Several awards will be presented for new construction and rehabilitation projects, completed in 2010, that significantly contributed to the identity of downtown Raleigh. Images of these remarkable projects will be presented.

The Downtown Advocate Award will recognize an outstanding individual whose advocacy and commitment positively impacted downtown in 2010.

The Lifetime Achievement Award will honor an extraordinary individual whose involvement and contributions to making downtown vibrant have been realized through a lifetime.

Thank You to our Sponsors: 

Gold Sponsors:  Charter Square; JDavis Architects, PLLC; Jones Lang LaSalle; Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.; Progress Energy; Raleigh Convention Center; Raleigh Marriott City Center; RBC Bank

Silver Sponsors:  Bank of Hampton; BB&T; The Budd Group; Deloitte & Touche; French/West/Vaughan; McDonald York Building Company/York Properties, Inc.; NC Museum of Natural Sciences; North State Bank; Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee; RE/MAX City Centre; Rex Healthcare; Smith Anderson; Spectrum Properties; Stewart Engineering; SunTrust Bank; WakeMed; Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice; Wyrick Robbins Yates 

Friends of DRA:  Mulkey Engineers & Consultants