YorkFest 2015, Get Ready!
YorkFest is an annual festival of arts and music that highlights the best talent in York in a celebration full of live music, art, food, and entertainment for visitors of all ages. The goal of YorkFest is to promote art and education to the community in a fun way that provides a lasting impression and speaks directly to the people of York. The festival is consists of a culinary arts court, festival marketplace, Literary competitions for children and adults, a children's festival area, and a judged art exhibition.
The 2015 festival will take place on Saturday and Sunday, August 29-30. Events are no longer accepting entries for the competition, and exhibition art will be held on display through the first week in September. Important dates to remember include:
Thursday, August 20 – August 22 from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm for delivery of Art
August 29 – 10:00 am – 5:00 pm YorkFest Hours
August 30 – 10:00 am – 4:00 pm YorkFest Hours
Saturday, September 5 – 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Pick up Artwork
Tuesday, September 8 – 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Pick up Artwork
Local business owner of Think Loud Development Bill Hynes, believes YorkFest is a wonderful way to promote community involvement in the arts. With all ages having the ability to submit and view art and literary works, YorkFest brings out some of the best attributes of locals and provides a positive outlet to nurture and develop skills. Hynes supports all activities in the community that promote education and the betterment of those in the community. As an active participant in local charities, Think Loud Development is one of many local businesses that appreciates the presence of events sponsored by York Arts, such as YorkFest.
York County Quick Response Team
The York County Quick Response Team was formed in November of 2002 and is comprised of officers from 11 local Police Departments and the local Sheriff's Department which serve over 400,000 residents in more than 70 municipalities. The York County Quick Response Team (YCQRT) is made up of a tactical team of twenty-five officers and a Negotiation Response Team of 12 additional officers.
The YCQRT works to be prepared for the possibility of tactical situation in the municipalities and boroughs in the York, PA area. The YCQRT holds tryouts for the team twice a year and the selection process consists of potential recruits being recommended by the chief of their department, passing a written and oral exam, and physical fitness and firearms tests. Once a recruit becomes a team member he or she must work to keep his or her spot on the team by passing bi-annual PT tests, weapons qualifications, and various other qualifications and certifications. These provisions ensure that the team is comprised of the best possible officers York has to offer.
The team responds to an average of 23 calls per year and trains monthly to prepare for any tactical situations that may arise. Comprised strictly of volunteers, the people of York, PA realize the importance of helping to keep the operations of the YCQRT running through the assistance of the community and is sponsored in part by various companies including, Home Depot, Bernard Anthony Demolition and Concrete, Drakontas, Leaps.tv, Lowes, Pho-Tac, Re-source York, Riley Welding and Fabricating LLC, SWF Industrial, and Tactical Firearms.
On local contributor to team efforts through donations is Think Loud Development. Think Loud is a real estate development company that works to improve the community through taking on development projects that improve the quality of life for the community's residents. CEO of Think Loud Development, Bill Hynes, believes in the services the York County Quick Response Team offers the community and supports the team through donations and support for community involvement.
Helping the Community – Donating to local Charities
One of many ways to support the local community is through donating time and funds to charitable organizations. With many worthwhile causes available to the public, finding a charity that would best impact the cause you are passionate about is easier than ever. However, a simple online search for local charities can provide a wealth of information that may seem overwhelming to some.
Websites such as http://www.charitynavigator.org/ are one way to narrow down a search to donate to a worthy cause. As America's largest online charity navigator, you can sort through numerous giving opportunities and research what may impact the particular needs you wish to see met the most.
Another site that may be of use is http://www.volunteermatch.org/. This set up allows you to answer one simple question to begin your search. What do you care about? Once you have answered that question, opportunities will be listed in need of volunteers, and you will be able to match your talents with the needs of organizations looking for volunteers.
Think Loud Development Bill Hynes, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Think Loud Development in York, PA, believes strongly in giving back to his community. Hynes looks to improve the lives of community members in whatever way possible. This mindset includes his work with Think Loud Development through real estate development projects in the community and donations to local charities in varying capacities. Hynes donates to causes that he believes directly impact residents of the city of York and surrounding areas. Some of these charities include work with special volunteer law enforcement groups, cancer-related initiatives, and women's' foundations.
Although Hynes sees it as his personal responsibility as a business owner to give back to the community, anyone can see a need that they believe the can fill in their community! Looking into worthy causes and volunteering time and effort to meet those needs creates a better community as a whole and allows like-minded people to gather together to work toward a common goal. Assisting with community programs is always worth the time and effort, and the results are limitless when people work together to help those in need!
Real Estate Development
The key to real estate development is understanding the potential value for property. Real estate developers look into the long-term value potential on the market now and in the future.
Developers acquire properties that they think they can improve and increase the market value. Typically, developers deal in two broad categories of real estate: commercial and residential. Commercial real estate is storefronts, restaurants, shops, and office buildings. Residential is property that is someone’s home, from single family to multi-family housing, and apartment buildings. Developers earn their money by spotting good investments. They buy a property, add value to it, and resell the property for a profit. Developers also have to be willing to take risks and have the vision needed to succeed in a volatile market and challenging industry.
While developers come from all kinds of backgrounds and disciplines, the best are those who are emotionally invested in the projects they choose. One of those developers is Think Loud Development Founder & CEO Bill Hynes, who created his company to revitalize underserved urban neighborhoods in Pennsylvania. Hynes chooses to help improve communities through his development projects, because he grew up in a struggling neighborhood himself. Hynes wants to give local residents and businesses a second chance to thrive as tomorrow’s leaders. For More Information Visit at https://www.wattpad.com/user/thinklouddevelopment
Think Loud Development CEO Bill Hynes - Key Urban Area Revitalization
Since 2011, Think Loud Development CEO Bill Hynes and the Think Loud Development team have made an incredible effort to revitalize many key urban and underserved areas in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As leaders in socially responsible commercial development, Think Loud Development has been an essential part of the revitalization efforts of many notable downtown urban communities throughout the state, including Reading, York and Allentown, with the Lancaster community soon on the way.
Think Loud Development CEO Bill Hynes has been at the helm of Think Loud Development since the very beginning, and has provided the leadership, focus and guidance his team has needed to become a true market leader within the commercial land, lease and development industry. Each Think Loud project is designed to serve local urban communities by working to enhance their civic pride, culture and the local environment, an effort the company has continually excelled at for over four straight years.
Think Loud Development CEO Bill Haynes is proud of the positive and integral role his company has played in community revitalization since 2011, and is hopeful that Think Loud will be a part of the effort to restore, enhance and rejuvenate Pennsylvania’s struggling urban areas for many years to come.
Think Loud Development professionals see the brick and mortar of a building as a mere shell, that which has the opportunity to someday house the potential that will one day reside within. Community revitalization through socially responsible development is, and has always been, their primary goal.
Think Loud Development CEO Bill Hynes - Industry Leadership
Think Loud Development CEO Bill Hynes understands what it takes to build a successful firm, even within a field that is continues to be one of the more competitive and demanding industries in the professional business community. Now the leader of a top commercial real estate development company, Hynes has proven himself to have the skill, expertise and acumen needed to build, sustain and grow a successful company from the ground up.
Bill Hynes, Think Loud Development CEO and founder, started the Think Loud company in 2011, and has since grown his firm into one of the best and most socially responsible commercial redevelopment companies in the state of Pennsylvania. With an ever-expanding portfolio of Pennsylvania real estate, more than 450,000 square feet of ongoing construction projects and investments totaling over $50 million, Think Loud Developments has firmly solidified its place as a market leader in the commercial land, lease and redevelopment industry.
Even more impressive, perhaps, is Think Loud’s reputation for social responsibility, something the company has earned through years of projects designed to revitalize and reinvigorate struggling urban areas throughout the state. Think Loud Development CEO Bill Hynes has committed his company, and his team, to making a push for positive social change within the urban communities of York, Allentown and Reading, and has left an indelible imprint on people’s lives, the neighborhoods in which they live and the cities in which they are located.
Bill Hynes has demonstrated his acumen not only for business leadership, but also for positive and enduring community development.
Think Loud Development CEO Bill Hynes - Imagining Better
Think Loud Development CEO Bill Hynes seeks to imagine local communities as something better, not as what they currently are, but what they can be, their true potential, well into the future. A leader in urban revitalization and urban property redevelopment, Hynes is always looking past the blight that is common to disadvantaged urban communities, focusing on the future potential of a downtown building and/or property in an effort to create something truly transformative and inspirational.
The head of a market leader in commercial redevelopment, Think Loud Development Bill Hynes looks to enhance and empower communities with the opportunity to be something more, to reach for and achieve a more successful and prosperous reality that serves the local population well into the future. Breathing new life, and renewed hope, into disadvantaged downtown communities is what the Think Loud Development team strives for, and has been the company’s primary mission and goal since its founding in 2011.
Think Loud Development CEO Bill Hynes looks at a desolate place and imagines more; a community where start-up companies, artists, new entertainment venues and more can thrive and prosper for many years to come. Seeing a neighborhood for what it can be, rather than for simply what it is, is what the Think Loud team is all about, and drives them to work towards the development of projects that really inspire something better and stronger for everyone in the surrounding area.
Bill Hynes and the Think Loud team feel an obligation to inspire, encourage and impact positive change in people’s lives, and undertake this obligation with enthusiasm on a daily basis.
