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Welcome the Newest Addition to the R+B Family: THE INMAN

We are so excited to welcome The Inman to the Royse + Brinkmeyer family! The Inman boasts 60 studio, one, and two-bedroom units. We will open The Inman’s doors to all ages while continuing to care for its current residents. This unique building will continue to offer a full-service lifestyle with concierge services like housekeeping, laundry, pet care, and more. “We’re excited to see what the future holds for the historic Inman. With its rich history and prime location, we think it’s the perfect place to showcase the best things about our vibrant community” says R+B CEO Collin Carlier. “We look forward to seeing how Champaign-Urbana embraces this building and informs its future”. Built in 1915, The Inman's storied history adds to the building's charm with visits from Eleanor Roosevelt, Al Capone, and Nat King Cole. Royse + Brinkmeyer plans to honor this history while developing the building. To learn more about The Inman, visit www.inmanapartments.com . .blog a { text-decoration:none; color:#fb6c30; } .blog p { font-size: 16px; } .blog li { font-size: 16px; } .blog h4 { padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; } .blog img { padding-bottom: 20px; }

2022 Healey Gardens

.blog a { text-decoration:none; color:#fb6c30; } .blog p { font-size: 16px; } .blog li { font-size: 16px; } .blog h4 { padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; } .blog img { padding-bottom: 20px; } Healey Urban Garden We are just about ready for another year of gardening at the Healey Urban Gardens! Last year these gardens were built with the help of the U of I's Metropolitan Food Systems program and U of I Extension to give residents a way of growing their own food. The garden has 29 beds, both raised and flat, a water spigot on the south end for watering, and a gate with bunny wire around the perimeter. There is also a compost bin available for residents and gardeners to use. (If you would like to learn more about composting check out our blog post). A volunteer group of residents helped us design the gardens as well as develop rules for the garden: Gardeners should only use the plot assigned to them. Gardeners should prevent their plants from growing into paths, or other gardeners’ plots. They should also prevent plants from excessively shading neighboring plots. Gardeners should not let weeds in their plot go to seed. No one besides a gardener should interfere in that gardener’s plot, except with permission. Other exceptions are to remove weeds close to seeding or parts of plants spreading into paths or other plots. Gardeners are welcome to have guests help with their plots If a gardener does not want to maintain their plot any longer, they should contact Royse + Brinkmeyer and ask to relinquish their claim to the plot. Gardeners should not harvest others’ produce without permission, even if that produce seems at risk of going bad. Gardeners should return the shared tools to the area they got them from after use. Gardeners should not store their personal tools in the public space. Gardeners should check in with Royse + Brinkmeyer before applying any pesticides. The supervisor will ensure that the specific pesticide is safe and acceptable to the gardeners in nearby plots. Gardeners should not leave watering systems on when they are not in the garden. Gardeners should not use lights to work in the garden when the sun is down. Mint should only be grown in containers like pots. Smoking is not allowed in the garden. Pets are not allowed in the garden. Gardeners should wear masks and keep them six feet apart. The maximum capacity of the garden is 15 occupants: if the garden is full more people should not enter. Plots are $30 for the season, we aim to build two more gardens in 2022 that will likely not open until the fall! If you would like to reserve a plot for the 2022 season, fill out this form .

Winter Coat Drive

Warm Your Neighbors It's cold out there! While many of us take things like coats, hats, and scarves for granted, not everyone can afford to bundle up in the winter. For those of us that can, it can be wonderful to help those in need. We want to help our residents help one another, so this year, we are collecting coats, gloves, hats, and scarves to give to residents who need them. We will be giving coats and cold weather gear to your neighbors in need and donating anything that is leftover to Unit 4's Warm-A-Kid Coat Drive or to Salt and Light. If you would like to donate coats, gloves, scarves, or hats you can bring them to our leasing office at 211 W. Springfield Avenue . Please donate clean items that are in good condition. Are You or a Member of Your Family in Need of a Coat? If you or anyone in your family needs cold-weather gear, fill out this form We will try our best to match you up with any donated items we receive in your size. We have some sweaters, scarves, and coats in the office at the moment that need a good home! REQUEST A COAT .blog a { text-decoration:none; color:#fb6c30; } .blog { font-size: 14px; } .blog h4 { padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; } img { padding-bottom: 20px; }

'Tis the Season to Help Our Community

.blog a { text-decoration:none; color:#fb6c30; } .blog { font-size: 14px; } .blog h4 { padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; } Why Our Residents are THE BEST Over the years we have been blown away by the generosity of our residents. Every November you donate a mountain of toys to Toys for Tots , piles of cards for senior citizens living in care facilities, and when we asked you to sew masks for C-U Public Health, Christie Clinic, and Carle Foundation Hospital you delivered ! Since we know our residents are so giving, we want to help provide as many opportunities to support our community as we can. Our Rent Credits Fundraiser is Back Last year we decided to give every resident the opportunity to participate in C-U at Home's annual fundraiser, One Winter Night, by offering $25 to either take as a credit towards rent or donate to C-U at Home and have us match it. We raised $15,650 for C-U at Home and gave $5,850 to residents . It was incredible witnessing the generosity of our residents, so we've decided to do it again! One Winter Night Each February One Winter Night provides an opportunity for our community to learn about homelessness, raise awareness for our friends without an address, and experience a bit of what it might be like to be outside, overnight, in the coldest part of a Central Illinois winter. Participants commit to spending 12 hours outside in a cardboard box in downtown Champaign on the first Friday in February, as well as raising at least $1,000 to help C-U at Home continue doing all they do to help our community throughout the year. How You Can Help If you are a Royse + Brinkmeyer resident, fill out this form to claim your credit and tell us whether you want to take the credit or donate it to C-U at Home. If you donate your credit to C-U at Home, we''ll match it. That's $50 towards supporting the most vulnerable in our community! If every Royse + Brinkmeyer resident donates, we will have helped fund a $75,000 donation to reduce homelessness! If you aren't a R+B resident and want to donate, or just want to donate more than your credit, you can donate directly to C-U at Home here . Our Interview with C-U at Home Our Director of Property Management sits down with Rob Dalhaus III, Director of Development and Community Outreach for C-U at Home, to discuss C-U at Home's mission, impact, and how we're partnering to support the homeless in Champaign-Urbana.

Garden Planning Workshop

Spring is almost here and with that, we are super excited to announce that we are opening reservations for garden plots at 611 W Healey! If you are interested in reserving a plot you can fill out this form. To help us get ready for planting season The U of I Extension and University of Illinois’ Metropolitan Food Supply and Environmental Systems(MFST) program will be hosting a webinar for Royse + Brinkmeyer residents this Saturday, February 27th at 12 PM. In this workshop, you will have help from our friends at the U of I to pick out what to grow in your garden, when to plant it, and how to layout your garden bed and containers to make the most of your space. We will talk about layouts for the new garden plots on Healey and how to grow in containers on your balcony and inside your home. We are so excited to be able to work with the U of I's MFST program and the U of I Extension on this project and are incredibly grateful to them for providing us with the expertise to make this project come alive.

Thank You!

We really have the best residents! This year has been tough but we’ve made it through together and we want to say a big Royse + Brinkmeyer thank you to our wonderful community. Here are just a few examples of why we think our residents are the best: In March, we asked residents to donate masks in exchange for rent credits. The response was overwhelming! We were able to donate over 1000 masks to C-U at Home, Champaign-Urbana Public Health District, Christie Clinic, and Carle Foundation Hospital. That’s pretty awesome. And, as though that wouldn’t be enough, this month we asked for donations for our annual Toys for Tots drive. Once again, residents delivered! This photo is JUST the main leasing office; there are even more at our satellite offices! One lucky resident, Lauren from State St., won one month's free rent in our raffle! When we asked residents to donate holiday cards for senior citizens living in care facilities we received over 250 cards! We also gave away some prizes for those: Most cards donated : Gary from Crowwood Pointe! Gary donated 65 cards and won a $50 Walmart gift card! Most Creative Card : Jade from Ginger Creek donated the most creative card and won a $25 Meijer gift card! Raffle : Jennifer from Misty Cove won our early donation raffle and won a $15 Schnucks gift card. We also offered rent credits this month to help alleviate some of the strain of the pandemic but gave residents the choice to, instead, donate their credit to C-U at Home and have Royse + Brinkmeyer match it. You raised $15,500 to help support our communities’ homeless! Plus, you showed us some love by voting us Illini Radio Group’s Best of Champaign Urbana’s Best Property Management Company AND the News Gazette’s People’s Choice Best Rental Company! We are so proud of our community and grateful to have such wonderful and giving residents. So, THANK YOU for being a bright spot in a difficult year. We couldn’t ask for better.