FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BOMA TAKES on C.R.E.S.T. in the 4C Charitable Challenge

(C.R.E.S.T. CHARITABLE COMPANY COORDINATOR) 

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., November 14, 2003 – The Building Owners and Managers Association of Metropolitan Detroit has taken on the charge of helping C.R.E.S.T. (Combined Regional Emergency Services Training) acquire the furnishings and finishing touches it needs to complete the mission it has started. 

C.R.E.S.T. is a joint venture of Oakland Community College, Oakland County emergency service units and private businesses, designed to provide real-life scenario training, combining police, fire, haz-mat and EMS personnel. The 22-acre site on the Auburn Hills Campus of OCC features a simulated city complete with bank, gas station, homes, motel, multi-story burn building, helipad and state-of-the-art training center. This unique, first of its kind facility is used for training by the Secret Service, numerous public safety organizations and the OCC cadet training program to prepare for fires, criminal activities, accidents, disasters, hazardous material incidents, biological threats and terrorism. 

BOMA of Metropolitan Detroit members will work as C.R.E.S.T. Charitable Company Coordinators (4C Charitable Challenge) “adopting” buildings to provide signage, window coverings, furniture or technology and smarts in the form of skilled tradesmen and/or materials. Any donations provided to C.R.E.S.T. through the Oakland Community College Foundation will be directly used at C.R.E.S.T. to outfit their buildings and help train those emergency services personnel and public safety officials that protect and save personal property, real estate and businesses, and most importantly, members of our communities. 

For further information regarding the BOMA 4C Charitable Challenge contact BOMA of Metropolitan Detroit at 248-848-3714, or Gregg Leshman, Speaker Committee Co-Chair at (248) 350-2222 or gleshman@breapm.com. 

Founded in 1908, BOMA of Metropolitan Detroit is a professional trade association whose nearly 400 members either own or manage commercial real estate, or provide goods and services to the industry. BOMA Michigan members represent organizations managing more than 250 million square feet of office and industrial space, with employees and tenants totaling more than 1.25 million people in Michigan. BOMA of Metro Detroit provides commercial real estate professionals with the opportunity to work together for professional growth, advocacy rights, corporate profit, and the benefit of the nine Southeastern Michigan communities it serves. For more information on BOMA and membership visit www.bomadet.org.

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CONTACT:
BOMA of Metropolitan Detroit
Attn: Cynthia A. Andary

38800 Country Club Drive
Farmington Hills, MI 48331
Phone: (248) 848-3834
Fax: (248) 848-3744

E-mail: candary@bomadet.org