Allora Townes Gifts Luxury Condominium
to GHS Children’s Hospital Cancer Program
International Medical Corps to Share Proceeds
05.02.2007
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Allora Townes, a division of Allora, LLC, has gifted a luxury condominium in Greenville’s exclusive “155 RiverPlace” to the GHS Children’s Hospital and the International Medical Corps (IMC). The 1,156 sq. ft. condominium, featuring two bedrooms and two bathrooms, is located in the thriving RiverPlace development across from Falls Park in downtown Greenville.
Allora Townes designed and developed “155 RiverPlace,” a four-story 24-condominium development, as a part of RiverPlace’s first phase of development, started in 2006. The condominium, valued at approximately $400,000, will be auctioned to the highest bidder at this year’s BMW Charity Pro-Am’s Celebrity Auction, slated for Friday, May 18th. The Children’s Hospital and IMC will share equally in the proceeds of the property, upon its disposition, according to Bill Kinard, Greenville Hospital System’s Director of Philanthropy and Partnership for GHS Children’s Hospital.
Bill Santerini, President of Allora Townes, and wife Angela Santerini are long-time advocates for and contributors to GHS Children’s Hospital, and of late to the Pediatric Cancer Research program, Kinard emphasized. “We are most grateful to Allora Townes and the Santerini family,” Kinard said. “The Santerini’s have set the bar high in their boundless giving and generosity to advance cancer research for children.”
Features of the condo at “155 RiverPlace”:
• 1,156 square feet
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms
• appraised at $365,000
• stainless steel appliances
• hardwood floors throughout
• secured facility
• on-site parking
• across from Falls Park in the heart of
Greenville’s downtown development
• unfurnished
The money raised from the auction of the condo is earmarked for a most promising collaboration between GHS Children’s Hospital and the GHS Oncology Research Institute called Cellular Tumor Vaccine Therapy in Pediatric Cancers. This therapy, now in Phase II clinical trials in adults, has proven effective in some patients with melanoma, prostate cancer and renal cell carcinoma. This vaccine is effective because it presents the tumor’s “signature” to T cells (a subpopulation of white blood cells of the patient’s immune system), stimulating them to generate “killer” T cells called Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes (CTLs), which can attack and destroy tumor cells wherever they might be situated within the body.
The Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Division at GHS Children's Hospital treats children from birth to age 21. All types of childhood cancer and blood disorders, including coagulopathies, sickle cell disease, and other anemias and white blood cell diseases are diagnosed and treated by a multidisciplinary team that includes physicians, nurses, social workers, and Child Life specialists.
The second beneficiary of the money Allora Townes donation is International Medical Corps (IMC) -– a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training, and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, IMC is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide.
