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Making Connections One Neighbor at a Time!

Posted by: Karen Booher on October 18th, 2024

How many of your business neighbors do you know? If you work in an office building or business park, you may say hello as you run into people in the mail room or when walking to and from the parking lot. Odds are, you may not know more than their first name at the most (we confess – we’re guilty)!

At J. Kent Staffing, we work in a really cool business community, Taxi, along the Platte River in RiNo – just north of downtown Denver. On September 25th, we hosted our 2nd semi-annual Business Happy Hour for our work neighbors. The best thing about this Happy Hour was that we had an entirely different group of neighbors attend than at our first one in the Spring, so we enjoyed getting to know some new people.

Here are a handful of snippets and stories that we learned that afternoon:

Tim from the law office used to manage a record store in his 20’s and, when he turned 30, decided to pursue a more professional career. He went to law school and is now a personal injury attorney!

Mike, aka “Doc” from the insurance agency (a Nebraska Cornhusker alum) just started there four months ago and was previously a golf pro at a Denver area country club for many years. Tired of working every weekend and on holidays, he made the switch to a Monday-Friday job and is now selling insurance, and golfing for the fun of it!

Kathy from the architecture firm, and person-in-charge of our community garden, stopped in on her way to her daughter’s 29th birthday dinner. She shared that her daughter has been courageously battling cancer and wasn’t necessarily even supposed to make it to 29 according to the medical experts. We are all praying for another extraordinary year ahead and celebration of her big 3–0!

Brent and Sylvia from the restaurant group unveiled that they are working on adding a new restaurant concept to their Denver portfolio. They hired an accountant from us earlier this year, and their growing company now employs over 250 people! Our new mission is to visit each of your amazing restaurants (“field trips” aren’t just for school kids)!

Julian made the transition from an aspiring professional bicycle racer to being a software engineer. And to his partner, Michaela, who used to work in organ donor procurement, thank you for eating the pâté on our charcuterie board!

Winston (the dog) loves to parade around campus with his blue paws and show off his eclectic style. His next hair-do is going to be “zebra”. Can’t wait to see that!

We really enjoyed getting a layer deeper into the lives of our work neighbors and look forward to continuing the tradition next Spring!

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