Business View Magazine | November 2019

62 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 While buying and selling properties is, naturally, at the heart of every real estate firm, Angela reveals that Revelation Real Estate has always had far broader concerns. “Our focus has always been more than just real estate,” she states. “It’s been to professionalize our agents, to build relationships, and to glorify God through that process. One of the sayings in our company is: ‘Iron sharpens iron; one man sharpens another,’ which is from Proverbs 27:17.” So, this past year, Angela and her husband, Chuck, decided to broaden their outreach even more by opening up a portion of their expansive office building to the greater East Valley community. “We expanded the idea of the importance of building relationships; the importance of surrounding yourself with like-minded people; the importance of serving people,” Angela declares. “And we radiated that out to the whole community.” “We realized that there was a demand in our business community for a different type of event space,” she continues. “They don’t want to meet at Starbucks, anymore, and they want an event space that is flexible. And we found that we could offer something to our local community that no one else can. So, at the beginning of this year, we launched the space as a co-work environment called The Forum. Our building still houses the real estate company; we have a large ballroom, which we use for training and our real estate school is in there, but now, we are also an event space. People can rent it for private parties; they can do business conferences because we have eight or nine conference rooms, two podcast rooms, and a green screen room. We even have our own fitness center, an in-house aesthetician and chair massage. The ballroom can be divided in two, and we also have a 7,000-sq.-ft. patio. We have people bringing their meetings and their clients here because it’s such a beautiful and attention-grabbing space and the clients appreciate the ambience. For example, Intel (one of the East Valley’s largest employers) will come in here and do a whole business conference, but we also have a bar/café, so they can have a nice lunch and stay after for happy hour.”