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The project kitchen after BKC has transformed. Photos courtesy of BKC Kitchen and Bath

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Browsing through home magazines and design websites, you might see images of beautiful kitchens that leave you daydreaming about what it would be like to make your own kitchen dazzling and functional. Is your kitchen ready for a makeover? Here are some signs that it could be time to renovate.

Your kitchen isnt functionalTodays kitchen designs offer more ease and functionality than kitchens of the past. Once, kitchens were small and designed for a solo cook, with a formal dining area located in a separate room. Now, cooking is much more social. Many couples and families cook together and share meals in the same area. Additional space gained from a new layout will allow you to incorporate convenient storage solutions, to increase efficiency. From blind-corner remedies, to pull-out trash bins, a kitchen remodel offers adequate space for multiple cooks as well as for guests.

The project kitchen before its transformation.

Your appliances are outdatedNot only do modern appliances contain high-tech features, they also run more efficiently, quietly and safely. Todays kitchen appliances offer a diverse range of sizes, colors and functions which can be suited to meet your needs. However, with all of these updates the best appliances for your kitchen may require some space reconfiguration. Consider designing a layout that will optimize how you prep, cook, clean and entertain in your new space.

Youre planning on sellingA homes kitchen and bathrooms are at the top of the list of what people notice first when house-hunting. If your kitchen is outdated, it could easily move your home from first to last place, or make it challenging to receive the offer youre hoping for. Consider investing in a price-appropriate remodel that will entice potential homebuyers.

Whatever your reason is for remodeling your kitchen, doing so will increase the quality of life you experience within your home. A renovated kitchen not only provides improved aesthetic and function, it could also inspire you to entertain more often. With help creating an optimal kitchen that exceeds your expectations, contact us at bkc.co.

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(Family Features) When you renovate an older home, the goal is not always to replace old with new. In fact, some renovations are all about preserving the past with a design that reflects and pays respect to the yesteryear features that make your home unique.

Whether youre planning a renovation for a 60-year-old home, or working to infuse some retro charm into a newer place, the ultimate goal is capturing the nostalgic feel of older homes: the classic lines, hardwood, moldings and woodwork, and features like fireplaces or stonework, bannisters or windows and doors.

The kitchen can be a particularly challenging room to renovate because the blend of old charm with modern convenience and functionality can seem at complete odds. These ideas from the design experts at Elmira Stove Works can help you combine practical function with timeless features for a room filled with character and purpose.

Keep cabinet facades true to the era. Updating the cabinets is practically a necessity for any vintage kitchen remodel. Although many older kitchens lacked the cabinet space modern homeowners desire, you can still achieve a retro look with ample storage by focusing more on the shape and style than on the quantity. With this approach, you can add as much storage and as many functional amenities as your space allows while still capturing the right look for the era. Opt for sleek and understated styles, or for some extra flair incorporate exaggerated angles and curves common to mid-century design. Material and color options abound, so youre free to go bold and glossy or more subdued.

Design with a focal point in mind. In a retro kitchen, standout elements such as colorful appliances can enhance the space and act as a focal point in the room. Stainless steel has become almost default in kitchens from coast to coast. Whether your home is on the beach, in the mountains or in a suburban neighborhood, for those who find beauty in the past, choosing a retro refrigerator or a vintage stove might be a better choice. These appliances act as a major design element in the space, and fortunately there are plenty of options when it comes to retro appliances with exciting pops of color. One example is the Northstar line offered by Elmira Stove Works, which offers the ideal blend of form plus function: soft lines, rounded corners and refreshing colors including a dazzling Robins Egg Blue along with the premium performance you'd expect from the most modern appliances. Visit elmirastoveworks.com to explore a product catalog and find more design inspiration.

Let the details bring it all together. Vibrant color is the signature of any retro kitchen, so dont forget to carry that design element through the space with accessories like dishes, cookbooks and vintage relics that celebrate bygone days. Other details like hardware, small appliances and utensils that harken the past can bring a cohesive look to the kitchen for a seamless style that feels like stepping back in time.

Bringing old character to life can be a tricky proposition when it comes to remodeling, however, with the proper focus on appliances, major features like the cabinetry and small details that make a big difference, you can confidently create a new space that takes you to another time.

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Kitchen and bath remodeling companyKitchen Places recently celebrated the grand opening of its new showroom in Ventura during a bash with about 200 former customers.

Owner Jeff King has witnessed a massive evolution in the remodeling world since their company began business in its old Front Street location.

We used to just have three types of cabinets to offer, all in oak and in your choice of natural, dark stain or the newfangled whitewashed finish. Now we have exotic woods, back-painted glass door styles and environmentally friendly options, he said.

Kitchen Places has an in-house design staff.

After 25 years of business, we have the process down to a science, King said. We interview our clients about the style and features they would like to incorporate into their homes. We have 3-D software to present photorealistic options on a big-screen TV as we assist the clients through the shopping process. Once we have the materials selected and priced, we order the products. We dont start demolition until we have our materials. This helps us minimize the length of the remodeling process and be more efficient in offering a turn-key experience for the homeowners.

Kitchen Places new standalone showroom is at Callens Road and Market Street.

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With the Great Recession now finally in the rearview mirror, many homeowners and their bank accounts are suddenly a bit more flush. And thats good news if their homes are sorely in need of more than a fresh coat of paint.

Some new flooring, maybe? How about brand-new kitchen countertops? And while youre at it, maybe an entire HVAC overhaul?

Homeowners spent $361 billion more than ever before on home improvements, maintenance, and repairs in 2016, according to a recent report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. Thats a nearly 13.5 percent jump from the previous peak, in 2007, just before the housing market crashed.

The report looked at U.S. Census data on the 25 largest U.S. metros. Most of the data in the report was from 2015, except for the 2016 statistic on overall spending.

Homeowners just feel like they have more equity built in their home so they can invest in their homes in bigger ways than they could in the past, said Abbe Will, one of the contributors to the report.

Less unemployment, higher salaries and rising home values are leading many homeowners to pimp out their homes, or at least fix them up a bit before putting them on the market. Renovations are also popular among new homeowners who want to customize their new pads.

A lot of remodeling tends to happen around the time of the sale, Will says.

So instead of only paying for things that need to be done, like replacing a leaky roof or repairing a cracked foundation, theyre creating outdoor oases and splurging on new granite countertops.

Millennials really put a lot of value on personalizing something so it is an expression of themselves, said Brad Hunter, chief economist at HomeAdvisor, a website that connects consumers and contractors. They may not have the money to do it all at once, but they can do it over the years and they can also do it themselves.

Over the past few years, investors also spent a pretty penny fixing up residences they bought in the downturn to get them ready to rent out to tenants.

What are homeowners spending money on?

Kitchen and bath remodels still top the list of most popular home improvements.

Spending may be back, but many homeowners still arent throwing money around with quite the abandon they did before the recession. In 2015, discretionary spending made up just a third of all home improvements compared to more than 40 percent in 2007.

The most common work done wasnt glamorous necessary improvements such as replacing systems that keep a home humming along, like plumbing, electrical, and HVAC, took the lead, according to the report.

This was followed by necessary upkeep on home exteriors, like roofing, siding, windows, and doors; interiors, like carpeting, flooring, and insulation; and improvements to lots and yards, such as fixing fences.

The most popular discretionary home improvements were bath remodels followed by kitchen remodels. Next up were outdoor living additions, like porches, decks, patios, terraces, garages, and carports, and then room additions.

Were seeing a lot more [demand for things like] painted cabinets, a tuxedo finish, which is light on the bottom dark on the top, quartz countertops versus granite, said Joanne Theunissen, vice president of the custom home building and remodeling firm Howling Hammer Builders. We still see a lot of [people wanting] stainless appliances.

Baby boomers are leading the charge, with those 55 and up making up about 52 percent of the home improvement spending in 2015. Thats because many of them want to stay in their homes as long as possible, and theyre willing to spend some serious moolah to do that.

Another area of growth is energy-efficient and smart-home renovations, remodels, and improvements. This can be anything from water-, power-, and cash-saving appliances to home technologies like the Amazon Echo.

Home automation is the emerging market thats really starting to take off, Will said. As the technology has improved, the price has come down.

It shouldnt come as a surprise that those under 35 spent the least on improvements likely because they dont have the higher incomes and equity built up in their homes, if, in fact, they own one at all.

For example, homeowners younger than 35 spent an average $8,702 on their individuals projects in 2015. Those in the 3544 age range spent $10,294, while the 4554 age range plunked down $10,553.

Homeowners in the 5564 age range spent an average of $11,207, and those 65 and up spent $9,058.

Those in their mid-30s to mid-50s spent the most, because theyre the most likely to have families.

Despite the surge in home renovations, remodeling spending is expected to grow by just 2 percent annually through 2025, according to the report. Thats a little lower than the 2.5 percent each year that homeowners paid from 1995 to 2015.

Blame the anticipated slowdown on rising home prices and mortgage interest rates and not enough properties on the market to meet demand. That means fewer millennials will become homeowners. And if they dont own homes, they cant remodel them.

However, when they do buy, their homes are likely to be cheaper and need more work. Thats expected to help drive the market in the future.

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DURHAM -- The office campuses in Durhams Research Triangle Park are often monolithic and uninviting, but nonprofit research giant RTI International is aiming to make its campus more accessible to the public with its newest office building.

Already under construction, the new office building will be the largest on RTIs campus, standing six stories tall with 190,000 square feet of space. The organization officially completed the steel framing of the building Wednesday and used the occasion to detail its plans for the building, which will provide workspace for around 670 of its 2,200 employees based in RTP.

The building will cost $60 million.

RTI President and Chief Executive Officer Wayne Holden described the new building as the organizations public face.

This building is going to help us not just bring our staff together on this campus, but also interface with the public and other organizations, he said. ... There is going to be a heritage area that allows the public to come interact with what RTI is and learn more about it.

We are also going to change the way you get into campus, so that there is a public access road that people can come in on and have that experience of interacting with us, so we can be part of a facilitator and a magnet for the park.

The first two floors of the building will be used as interactive space, including areas for meetings and collaborations as well as a coffee bar and a 300-person cafeteria. A four-story parking deck is also being built with 650 spaces.

The sprawling campus, which will have 22 buildings upon the completion of the newest construction, has not had a centrally-located area for employees to collaborate previously and a goal of the building is to create more creative interactions between RTI employees.

Duda Paine Architects is designing the building and interiors, and DPR Construction is constructing the building. Stewart Inc. is providing the civil engineering and landscape designs.

The building is expected to be finished in early 2018, a year that coincides with the 60th anniversary of the founding of the organization. RTI was started in 1958 with support from the North Carolina government as well as education and business leaders, and the research nonprofit still maintains close ties with N.C. State University, Duke University, N.C. Central University and UNC-Chapel Hill.

Its been an active year for RTI, which started off 2017 by acquiring two different firms: Washington, D.C.-based International Resources Group (IRG) and Colorado-based Riverside Technology Inc.

Holden told The Herald-Sun in January that RTI was likely to make more moves in 2017 a testament to the organizations steady growth over the past few years.

Over the last five years, in comparison to some of our competitors across the country, we have continued to grow at a pretty good rate, Holden said. We have done pretty well despite some of the challenges that we have had to deal with. ... We've got resources and we are able to use those resource pools to do acquisitions (and) to bring in other groups.

Part of those challenges stemmed from decreases in federal funding that occurred during the U.S. budget sequestration in 2013. RTI gets a large majority of its funding from research contracts with the U.S. government though it has been working to diversify its revenue flows, especially as more cuts are expected under President Donald Trumps administration.

I think it is starting to become clearer which parts of the federal government are going to have more significant cuts across time, Holden said. What helped us over the last several years is we have a very diversified federal portfolio across lots of different parts of the government.

We are figuring out what parts of (the federal government) are going to prosper and also how we can continue to diversify our partnerships and resources outside of the federal government in the commercial sector, in foreign government funding ... and the foundation and (non-governmental organization) sector as well.

RTI employs around 4,700 employees around the world and had $885 million in revenue in 2016, which was up 6.4 percent from 2015.

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Two-and-a-half years ago, Columbia County Supervisor Andy Ross of Poynette let out a quiet whoop as Supervisor Susanna Bradley of the town of Caledonia cast the 21st and deciding yes vote on a $45.51 million building project the biggest in county history.

On Wednesday, Ross walked the hallways cluttered with construction materials of the two-story Health and Human Services Building, and reflected.

I always expected that Id be here someday, he said, and that these buildings would look as good as they do.

Most of the 28 county supervisors, and some of the countys department heads, got an inside look at the nearly completed three-story Administration Building and the HHS building, which is on the other side of the Portage Canal.

The structures are connected by an enclosed walkway that, on Wednesday, had more traffic than usual, though construction workers have been using it for months.

As County Board Chairman Vern Gove of Portage sat down at a table in the County Boards new meeting room in the Admin Building for a sub sandwich lunch provided by J.H. Findorff and Sons, the firm managing the buildings construction he declined to speculate as to whether the County Board might hold its first meeting in the space in June or July.

Theyd better, said Supervisor Kirk Konkel of Portage, because all of the countys departments, including the courts, need to be out of the courthouse at 400 DeWitt St. by July 10.

Non-court-related departments will start moving out of the Courthouse and the Annex at 120 W. Conant St. in May, and are expected to be settled in sometime in June.

The HHS Building wont be occupied by HHS (except for HHSs accounting and public health divisions) right away. It will be the temporary courthouse, while the courthouse undergoes renovations so it can be used for court-related purposes only.

County Clerk Susan Molls first-floor office in the Administration Building didnt look move-in ready yet. But its definitely taking shape.

Moll showed supervisors the counter and adjacent waiting area, where the public can go to obtain services from the clerks office, such as marriage licenses.

The clerks office itself will be for employees only, and Moll said she likes what she sees.

My staff will be along those windows, she said, and my office will be over there in the corner.

The Administration Building has plenty of windows, but not all the vistas are glorious.

The tall, vertical windows of the County Board room, for example, look out onto the backs of buildings on East Edgewater Street.

Boy, you cant say that the County Board set itself up in a room with a scenic view, Ross deadpanned.

But Supervisor Jo Ann Wingers of the town of Courtland saw only one thing when she walked into the new County Board room, and she liked it.

We have windows! Its fantastic! she exclaimed.

Thats not all there is to like about the space, Gove said.

It includes moveable walls, so that the room can be divided into smaller meeting rooms that are still more spacious and conveniently located than many of the rooms where County Board committees meet now.

And, he said, the County Board room will be furnished with the latest in technology, including video screens and a machine to tell how each supervisor voted on each issue.

All our votes will be roll-call votes, he said.

Steve Klaven, Findorff general project manager, said the buildings technological features will be among their many assets.

I think youre going to have counties (officials) coming from all over to see them, he said. This is going to be a landmark project, I think.

County Board Vice Chairwoman Mary Cupery of the town of Fort Winnebago observed that seeing the structures interior was, for her, an eye-opener.

With all the floor plans and blueprints, she said, you cant imagine it until you see it.

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The Architectural Leagues Emerging Voices award and lecture series spotlight individuals and firms with distinct design voices thathave the potential to influence the discipline of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. The jury, composed of SunilBald, Mario Gooden, Lisa Gray, Paul Lewis, Jing Liu, Thomas Phifer, Bradley Samuels, Billie Tsien, and Ian Volner, selected architectsand designers who have significant bodies of realized work that creatively address larger issues in the built environment.

The Architects Newspaper featured theEmerging Voices firms in our February issue;stay tuned as we upload those articles to our website over the coming weeks.The firm featured below (Portland, Oregonbased LEVER Architecture)will deliver its lecture on March 16, 2017, at The Architecture League in New York City. Click here to learn more!

Architect Thomas Robinson kick-started his career with Joseph Esherick, the architect best known for designing the Hedgerow Houses at Sea Ranch, California, followed by stints leading institutional and cultural projects at Herzog & de Meuron in Switzerland and Allied Works in Oregon. In 2009, Robinson, a graduate of UC Berkeley and later Harvard (studying under Peter Zumthor), decided to branch out on his own, launching LEVER Architecture from his Portland basement.

Over the past eight years, his firm has grown to 18 employees. A winner of the USDAs U.S. Tall Wood Building Prize, LEVER Architecture has found a niche working with cross-laminated timber (CLT). Timber is often hidden away, Robinson said. Wewant [timber] to be part of a greater architectural experience. While mass timber construction isnt newaccording to Robinson it has been around since the 1930sthere is a rediscovering and understanding of the technology coupled with modern advances in fire safety, seismic engineering, and acoustics that has made it more feasible.

Framework is a 12-story mixed-use building that is expected to be one of the first tall timber structures in the world. (Courtesy LEVER Architecture)

LEVER Architecture is currently working on a 90,000-square-foot, 12-story CLT high-rise in Portland. The project, Framework, incorporates a wood-core structure. When completed in 2018, it is expected to be the first mass-timber high-rise in the United States. The design relies on a post-tension CLT rocking wall, which, as Robinson explained, is aresilient low-damage design that takes advantage of the lightness and strength of wood. Wood moves and can re-center itself, he said.

Other recent LEVER projects also feature mass timber: There is Albina Yard, the first office buildingin the U.S. built with domestically manufactured CLT (LEVER Architecture recently moved its offices to this four-story, 16,000-square-foot building), and LAngolo Estate, a winery tasting room in Newberg, Oregon.

Albina Yard is the first office building in the U.S. built with domestically manufactured CLT. )(Courtesy Jeremy Bittermann)

At the core, Robinson explained that LEVERs design projects are about the transformative power of materials. Its almost akin to product design at the level of a building.

With funding from the National Science Foundation and a $1.8 million grant through the U.S. Tall WoodBuilding Prize, LEVER is implementing a performance-based design process throughout its projects. The grants help pay for additional research costs to demonstrate that CLT high-rise buildings are equivalent to traditional steel construction.

Treehouse is a six-story residential building clad in metal panels that fit into its wooded context. (Courtesy Lara Swimmer)

LEVER advocates mass timber as a more sustainable way of building while encouraging economic growth in the Pacific Northwest. We look to the farm-to-table model, where people are connected more directly to the producer, Robinson said. Translated from the culinary scene to the architecture world, the forest-to-frame approach is about building stronger relationships between architects, contractors, and the people growing the timber.

We focus on simple materials and how to put them together to form transformative experiences, Robinson said. Were interested in an economy of means. Its rare being both at the cutting edge and having a seat at the table.

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Restoration of the original theater facade and marquee are shown in this rendering by Allford Hall Monagham Morris, with the Elk Valley Brewing Co. tap room and rooftop bar to the south of the former theater.[Rendering provided]

A brewery and tap room are set as the next tenants of a theater redevelopment in Midtown while yet another surprise retail announcement is set to follow soon.

Pivot Project partners David Wanzer, Jonathan Dodson and Ben Sellers bought the former Uptown Theater and adjoining retail and office space at 1212 N Hudson Ave. last October for $2.86 million. Their first-announced tenant was Resolution Legal Group, a law firm that will occupy an expanded office wing on the north end of the property.

Wanzer confirmed Elk Valley Brewing Co. will open a brewery and tap room on the south end of the development which, like the office annex, will include new expanded space. Broker Allison Bailey confirmed the pending tenant will be a retail mix.

The tenant is not ready to talk publicly, but I'm excited to see this project coming to Midtown, Bailey said. It will be a good fit for visitors and neighbors alike.

Renderings by Allford Hall Monagham Morris show the original theater facade dating back to the building's opening in 1941 will be recreated along with the former theater marquee. Modern additions will be built behind the office annex on the north end and for the brewery that will extend from a retail space that will be the Elk Valley's tap room with a rooftop bar.

The Pivot Project also owns surface parking to the south of the development, which plans show could evolve into housing, a hotel and retail. Wanzer said no such plans are set, however, and are only a potential future use for the property.

With the streetcar stop on that corner, transit-oriented development may make sense there at a later date, Wanzer said.

The two-story, 5,300-square-foot office addition is set to include a rooftop terrace and a formal entrance facing a new parking lot to the east of the building. Construction by Smith & Pickel is set to start soon with the firm scheduled to move in by early 2018.

John Elkins, who is hoping to open the brewery and tap room by mid-2018, started his Elk Valley Brewing Co. in 2013, first with Choc in Krebbs and then taking on more of a role in the business side of the operation in a cooperative venture with Mustang Brewing.

The guys at Pivot talked to me about ideas they had, and I was glad to find a place I could call my own, Elkins said. We looked at different properties and this was the right fit. It's the community I want to be in.

The tap room will be in the 900-square-foot retail storefront south of the former theater.

We're looking to have some fun things on tap, things people haven't had a chance to try, Elkins said. We will have 16 taps, some will be non-alcohol. We will have sodas and we have a guy coming in who will be making Kombucha (a fermented, sweetened black or green tea). It's something I'd love to do that nobody is doing on-site here in the city. It's natural and good it's good for digestion.

The 4,000-square-foot expansion for the brewery, meanwhile, is being designed to reflect the use of metal, aluminum and glass being used with the Resolution Legal Group office addition.

It will allow me to double production, Elkins said. I'm pretty conservative in my projections. We will be going from two to eight people. We can grow to 10 times our production in that place before we'd have to grow to another location to handle distribution.

Wanzer said he sees the development as a tribute to R.G. Sieber, who built the theater and also built the landmark Sieber Hotel, butcher shop, restaurant and other retail across the street. The 650-seat theater opened in January 1941, boasting air conditioning and double seats for couples on date nights. Top movie tickets cost 20 cents, while matinee tickets cost 15 cents.

The theater was closed in 1955 by heir Delrose Sieber, and a second floor was added into the theater's auditorium. The modernization included changes to the theater's first floor facade that are now set to be reversed back to the original appearance.

The Sieber family was trying to create a neighborhood with all their properties in the area, Wanzer said. We feel like we are honoring that original vision.

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As the RiverDogs get set to host some of the biggest stars from two of the premier franchises in baseball at the second annual Legends in the South Alumni Game, the club has announced more additions to the Braves and Yankees rosters. Joining six members from last years teams, first baseman slugger Sid Bream will once again suit up for the Braves in a night of nostalgia at Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park on Friday, June 9 at 6pm presented by Budweiser and Container Maintenance.

Other new additions to the Braves roster include four members from last years victorious Atlanta team: Marquis Grissom, Greg McMichael, Pete Smith, and Jeff Treadway. Also returning from last years contest, Gene Stick Michael and Jeff Nelson have been announced as the first members of the Yankees roster. Former Braves slugger Ryan Klesko has already been announced as the first member to officially sign on with the Braves.

The Braves and Yankees produced some of the most memorable World Series and postseason moments in baseball history during their rivalry in the 90s, and it will be truly special to see these players take the field once again here at The Joe, said RiverDogs President and General Manager Dave Echols. All of last years attendees were great ambassadors of the game through their participation and engagement with the fans, and we couldnt be happier to welcome back the Braves and Yankees alumni.

A veteran of 12 Major League seasons, Bream most famously scored the winning run of the 1992 NLCS that lifted Atlanta to their second consecutive World Series berth. In a career that included three seasons with Atlanta (1991-93), the Pennsylvania native hit .264 with 90 homers and 191 doubles while slugging .420 in over 1,000 games.

A former second round pick out of Liberty University, Bream first cracked the Bigs in 1983 with the Dodgers before being traded to Pittsburgh where he had some of his most impressive seasons including 1986 when the lefty slugger hit .268 while ripping 37 doubles, third most in the National League, as the starting first baseman for the Bucs. In 1990, he bounced back from a knee injury with the Pirates and was honored with the Fred Hutchinson Award, given to the MLB player that best exemplifies the fighting spirit and competitive desire to win.

The Braves Legends outfield will once again be highlighted by the four-time gold glover Grissom who spent two seasons as a member of the Braves and most famously recorded the final out of the 1995 World Series. Grissom hit .272 with 227 home runs and 429 stolen bases in his 17-year MLB career with the Expos, Braves, Indians, Brewers, Dodgers, and Giants. Some of the Atlanta natives best seasons came as a member of his hometown club when he earned two of his four consecutive gold gloves in 1995-96. Grissom twice led the National League in stolen bases, swiping 76 and 78 bags respectively in 1991 and 1992.

McMichael will suit up in a Braves uniform once again after logging over 500 innings with 459 strikeouts in his 8-year career in The Show to go along with a 31-29 record and 3.25 ERA out of the bullpen. The right-handed hurler debuted with the Braves in 1993, a season in which he would be the runner-up for the National League Rookie of the Year Award.

Drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies as the 21st overall pick in the 1984 Draft, Smith was traded to the Braves before making his Big League debut on September 8, 1987 with Atlanta at the age of 21. In 1988, Smith pitched three shutouts the season after his rookie year. Smith played for the Braves from 1987-93 and joined the New York Mets for the 1994 campaign. The Massachusetts native finished out his career with the Reds, Padres, and Orioles, accruing a 47-71 record, 640 strikeouts, and a 4.55 ERA in over 1,000 innings in the Majors.

Treadway will once again feature in the Braves infield as he returns for the second annual midsummer showcase. A product of the University of Georgia, Treadway hit a consistent .281 over his 9-year MLB career while also collecting 28 home runs in 762 games with the Reds, Braves, Indians, Dodgers, and Expos, playing mostly second base.

Michael, a native Ohioan and 10-year Big Leaguer, joins the squad of Yankee greats for the second time after stints as a player, manager, and general manager in New York. Nicknamed Stick for his lanky frame, the 62 switch hitting infielder was a career .229 hitter with 15 home runs in 973 career games with the Pirates, Dodgers, Yankees, and Tigers. An adept fielder, Michael posted a career .962 fielding percentage while playing mostly second and short and was a master of the hidden ball trick, successfully pulling off the feat five times in his career. After his playing career, Michael enjoyed stints as the manager for the Yankees (1981-82) and Cubs (1986-87) before serving as the General Manager in New York from 1991-95.

A part of the Yankees bullpen in their dominant run of the late 90s, Nelson racked up four World Series rings while with the Bronx Bombers from 1996-2000 and posted a career 3.41 ERA in 15 seasons that also included stints with the Mariners, Rangers, and White Sox.

General admission tickets for the two-time World Series rematch start at just $12, and can be secured online at http://www.rileyparkevents.com , at the Riley Park box office, or by contacting the RiverDogs front office at 843-577-DOGS (3647). Batting practice will be open to all ticket holders starting at 4 with the Legends available to sign autographs pregame.

Along with tickets to the game on Friday, fans will have the chance to rub shoulders with some of the all-time greats the night before as the RiverDogs take on the Asheville Tourists at 7:05pm at The Joe on Thursday, June 8. The Braves and Yankees legends will mix-and-mingle with fans in the Riley Park Club during the game with all-inclusive tickets to the brand-new luxury gameday venue that includes complimentary food, beer, and wine for $120 each with a limited number available.

RiverDogs season tickets, half-season ticket packages, mini plans, and group tickets are now available for the 2017 campaign, including options for the all-new Riley Park Club. The RiverDogs, the Class-A affiliate of the 27-time world champion New York Yankees, begin their season on April 6 when they host the Lexington Legends at The Joe. Single-game tickets are now available and can be secured by contacting the box office at (843) 577-DOGS (3647) or online at http://www.riverdogs.com.

Braves Legends Roster

Sid Bream, IF

Marquis Grissom, OF

Ryan Klesko, IF/OF

Greg McMichael, RHP

Pete Smith, RHP

Jeff Treadway, IF

Yankees Legends Roster

Gene Michael, IF

Jeff Nelson, RHP

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