United Disabilities Services Foundation holiday gift-wrapping station to get upgrade from Tait

One of the world's biggest music production companies is helping a local charity this holiday season.

Warwick Township-based live events production juggernaut Tait is designing and creating a new gift-wrapping station for the annual United Disabilities Services Foundation wrapping season. The foundation is marking 54 years of gift wrapping this year at Park City Center, 142 Park City Center, where it raises money to help individuals experiencing disabilities and aging, assisting with everything from securing employment to electric wheelchairs.

Chief booth operator Radha Dave describes the new booth as fitting together like Lego pieces, ready to be constructed in under 15 minutes. Pictures of the booth were not yet available, as Tait is still creating the station.

Cassidy Bowles, Tait project manager, said the table will resemble some of the company's famous touring technology in more ways than one.

"The counter we're providing is made out of our Tait Staging System, which is the same proprietary Mag Deck staging that the world's most popular artists tour around the globe," Bowles said via email. "Keeping in mind the designs we use for our tourable stages we create, we will be making custom dollies for the Mag Decks and legs to be easily transported around Park City and stored within a small storage area at the mall."

Tait redesigned and constructed the new 31 foot by 8 foot table, the first gift-wrapping station created by the company and the first new table for the United Disabilities Services Foundation organization in more than 20 years. The booth will be donated to the United Disabilities Services Foundation.

The gift-wrapping station opens on Black Friday, Nov. 29, and operates all the way to 6 p.m. Dec. 25, Christmas Day. The fee for wrapping starts at $4.

The connection between the organizations came from United Disabilities Services Foundation board member Mike Callahan, also the chairman at Benchmark Construction Co., who consulted with Tait's chief culture officer Christian Recknagel. Representatives from United Disabilities Services Foundation toured the Tait building and consulted on three prototype ideas.

"This has been a longstanding holiday tradition for so many shoppers and for our community, so we're just truly blessed to partner with an organization as amazing as Tait," said United Disabilities Services Foundation major gifts officer Teresa Rineer. "We knew they'd be able to do something very creative and dynamic for us."

The United Disabilities Services Foundation gift-wrapping booth raised a total of $50,000 last year, and chief booth operator Dave said that the organization is already halfway to that goal with the help of company sponsorships, which will be represented on the new booth in decorative stockings.

"This is my baby, and I love wrapping," Dave said. "I get all my other projects done (in advance) so I can be at the booth, meet new volunteers and talk about (United Disabilities Services Foundation) and its mission."