CIP Finishes Founder and President Paul Milde recently attended the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce’s 7th Annual First Responders Appreciation Breakfast. When you have built your career helping to build safe and attractive communities, it’s impossible not to appreciate the vital role that first responders play in creating healthy neighborhoods.
At the breakfast, Paul was honored to be able to celebrate public servants such as First Sergeant Jason Kreider and First Sergeant Adam Assur of the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office (pictured above), and Virginia Deputy Attorney General Nicole Wittmann and Captain Steve Carey of the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office (pictured below).
These individuals are part of what makes Stafford County, where CIP Finishes is headquartered, a wonderful place to live and do business. As we work to install high-quality finishing hardware in apartment communities across Virginia and the wider Washington, D.C., region, we see that wherever there’s a thriving residential community, there’s also a strong contingent of police, fire and EMS professionals working hard day and night to serve that community.
In the Highlands development in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington, Va., we worked with general contractor Whiting-Turner to install lockers in a brand-new fire station that was built right alongside the new apartment homes (pictured at left).
We install all kinds of hardware in the amenity areas that make apartment communities attractive—from gyms to bike storage rooms to mailrooms. But getting to work on something as vital as a home base for firefighters was truly exciting for our team.
Every day, as we send our installers out to projects across Virginia, D.C., and Maryland, we are thankful for the work of first responders. That’s why it was important for Paul to attend the Chamber’s First Responders Appreciation Breakfast—to recognize the important role these public servants play in building great communities.