MONTHLY NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2018

David S. Brown Enterprises wishes all of our awesome residents a happy holiday season!

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We have finally made it to the end of the year, and Donate wow has it gone by fast! As we get ready to bring During the holiday season donations are usually in the new year, we want to encourage everyone the most popular way of giving back. You can to spend sometime helping out in the community. donate everything from used clothes, to food, Helping out can come in many different forms, to other various household items. No donation and it gives you the opportunity to bond with is ever too small, and what you might consider fellow community members, as well as provide useless may be life-saving for someone else. The assistance to people who are less fortunate. Check Maryland Food Bank is a great organization out the charitable options below to see how you that provides so much for Baltimore and the can help out this holiday season! surrounding area. Click on the picture below to see how you can give back! Become a Volunteer One of the best ways to lend a helping hand is by becoming a volunteer. There are a wide range of volunteer opportunities that allow you to find something you are truly passionate about. They usually are flexible and can fit around your Spend Time at a Community Garden schedule. Check out a great resource for finding One of the best ways to give back is to help out at local volunteer opportunities by clicking on the a local community garden. Baltimore has a large picture below! number of gardens that are run by volunteers with the mission of providing fresh food to our community members who may not have access to a substantial amount of food. Baltimarket is one of the organizations that provides an excellent amount of information about all of the community gardens in the Baltimore area. It is great knowing Support Local Business the work you put in will have a direct positive As the holiday season approaches, now is the impact on your community. Click on the picture perfect time to consider shopping locally. This can below to check out their website! range from gift shopping for your loved ones, to stopping by the local farmers market to get fresh produce. There are many benefits to buying local and supporting community businesses. Check out this link to see how supporting local businesses benefits your community as a whole. C R O S S I N

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LETTER FROM MANAGEMENT DECEMBER 2018

Dear Metro Crossing Residents, spectacle at the building to draw more attention to the newly-named Times Square. After four years of New Year’s Winter is coming, winter is coming! Before heading out into Eve fireworks celebrations, the newspaper’s chief electrician the cold stop by the clubroom and grab yourself a cup of Walter F. Palmer constructed an electrically lit time ball that coffee or tea to start your day and warm you up for the cold would be lowered from the flagpole on the roof of One Times weather outside! Need somewhere to store all those gifts or Square. It was constructed with iron and wood, lit with one Holiday decorations? Take advantage of our Storage special hundred 25-watt bulbs, weighed 700 pounds, and measured going on now! You can rent a 5X10 storage unit located right 5 feet in diameter. It was first lowered on New Year’s Eve in your basement for $50.00 a month! Ask your leasing office 1908 (December 31, 1907). It originally dropped one second today how to get yours! after midnight. The New Year’s Eve celebration at One Times Here are some December history fun facts: Square remains to this day.

-December 21st - The winter solstice is the day with Metro Crossing is pleased to welcome all of our new the fewest hours of sunlight in the whole year. In the Northern residents to our community! We’re so happy you’ve chose Hemisphere, it always occurs around December 21 or 22. (In Metro Crossing the place you call home. If there is anything the Southern Hemisphere, the winter solstice occurs around we can do to make your living experience more enjoyable, June 20 or 21.) please don’t hesitate to contact us. We want to wish all our residents a very happy and safe holiday season! -December 28th - The Pledge of Allegiance, thought to have been written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, was officially The leasing office will close early on Monday, December 24th recognized by Congress only in 1945. so employees can spend time with their families. We will re-open the leasing office at 9am on December 26th. We will -December 31st - The first New Year’s Eve celebration in also be opened from 9am-1pm on December 31st, and our what is now known as Times Square was held on New Year’s offices will be closed January 1st for New Years Day. We will Eve 1904. The New York Times had opened their new re-open the office at 9am on January 2nd. headquarters at One Times Square (at the time, the city’s second tallest building) in Longacre Square and persuaded Please arrange to pick up all packages at the leasing office the city to rename the triangular “square” surrounding by 12:00pm on Monday the 24th and 1:00pm on the 31st. it for their newspaper (which the city later did on April 8, Emergency maintenance is not allowed to distribute pack- 1904). The newspaper’s owner, Adolph Ochs, decided to ages after hours. Make sure they are picked up during our celebrate the opening of the company’s new headquarters scheduled business hours. with a midnight fireworks show on the roof of the building on December 31, 1903. Close to 200,000 people attended the Holiday Season! event, displacing traditional celebrations that had normally Best Regards, been held at Trinity Church. However, Ochs wanted a bigger The Team at Metro Crossing

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