40 professionals. Those employees will
continue to operate out of the Beckley
location.
“We’re excited to become a part of
SLS,” says Roy Shrewsbury, co-founder
of ESI. “We have more than three decades
of experience, and SLS has been in the
game for more than 40 years. That’s an
immense amount of experience in engineer-
ing, surveying and planning, and indus-
tries throughout the region will benefit.”
Since 1978, SLS has been providing
the region’s most dependable surveying,
engineering services, aerial mapping and
environmental services, including above
ground storage tank inspections. In 2017,
it unveiled a drone fleet that allowed com-
panies to boost safety and efficiency for
operations throughout the region.
Pray Construction Renovates
Space for New Infor Office
Pray Construction Company has part-
nered with Infor, a global leader in busi-
ness cloud software specialized by indus-
try, and Petroplus & Associates, property
manager of Laidley Tower in Charleston,
to renovate the building’s sixth floor to
house Infor’s new office serving U.S.
government agencies. Pray Construction
is renovating about 12,000 square feet of
space for the office, which Infor plans to
open in late August.
Infor anticipates that it will hire 100
technical employees in Charleston in
the disciplines of software engineering,
cloud operations and consulting and sup-
port services to support its public sector
customers. With more than 17,000 em-
ployees and over 68,000 customers, Infor
offers purpose-built software applica-
tions for select industries, including the
public sector.
“Pray Construction is thrilled to offer
our services to Infor and proud to help
create the space for Infor’s major cloud
operations center in Charleston,” says
Mark Grigsby, Pray Construction’s pres-
ident. “We look forward to providing
Infor with quality workmanship and a
professional and responsive project team.”
WVSOM Expands Programs with
Lease of Montwell Commons Barn
The West Virginia School of Osteo-
pathic Medicine (WVSOM) is further
investing in rural and community health
by signing a long-term lease with the
Greenbrier Valley Restoration Project
to operate programs and activities at the
Montwell Commons Barn. The WVSOM
Center for Rural and Community Health,
in partnership with the Greenbrier County
Health Alliance (GCHA), will utilize the
barn to deliver new programs, services
and opportunities for residents to learn
skills and practices to actively improve
and manage healthy lives.
The barn will be named the Clingman
Center for Community Engagement in
honor of Gwen Clingman, who was
known for her big-hearted devotion to
and nourishment of WVSOM students
and the Lewisburg community through
generous meals served for decades at
Clingman’s Market downtown. A shared-
use teaching kitchen is under construc-
tion with plans in the works to offer
cooking classes for families, youth and
people living with chronic health condi-
tions. Workforce training and culinary
medicine programs along with commu-
nity engagement and outreach initiatives
are also being developed.
The Clingman Center will serve as
headquarters for the Waste Not/Want
Not local food justice program, which
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