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Spring Maintenance for Building/Home Exteriors Available!

Noticing some exterior projects that need attention as you’re working from home?

York Maintenance is on the job and ready to tackle your commercial and residential projects!  Tell us about your maintenance needs.

Spring Exterior Services Offered

  • Domestic and irrigation back flow testing
  • Repair leaking/dripping hose bibs
  • Exterior lighting repairs and light bulb changing
  • Install/replace weather proof outlet covers
  • Storm and screen door repairs
  • Window screen replacements
  • Secure loose shutters
  • Replace porch ceiling fans
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Union Hall in the News

Union Hall in the news

 

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COVID-19 Resources for Small and Medium-sized Businesses

Guides to Applying for the Paycheck Protection Program under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act:

 

 

SBA Resources for Counseling and Training

You can apply for the Paycheck Protection Program at any lending institution that is approved to participate in the program through the existing U.S. Small Business Administration lending program and additional lenders approved by the Department of Treasury.

There are thousands of banks and credit unions that already participate in the SBA’s lending programs. You do not have to visit any government institution to apply for the program, you can call your bank or find SBA-approved lenders in your area through SBA’s online Lender Match tool. Your local Small Business Development Center, SCORE or Women’s Business Centers (below) can provide free assistance and guide you to lenders. When you call, tell them you are interested in the “Paycheck Protection Program” and they will guide you through the steps for applying for the program.

The application process should be open by Friday, April 3, 2020.

State and Local Government Coronavirus-related information

North Carolina

Local Resources

 

Advice for Homeownership Associations

  • In response to the unprecedented number of calls received by Jordan Price association attorneys asking about legal implications of cancelling or postponing meetings or suspending amenities or community services, their attorneys have collectively put together these Recommendations for Communities.

 

 

 

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Practical Management in the Age of COVID-19

By  now, most have read the best practices for hygiene, cleaning, and limiting exposure to COVID-19 through remote working where possible and urging ill employees to stay home.

York’s Property Management team has been in contact with the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to formulate a common-sense approach to COVID-19.  If, on the off chance, your business has had contact with an active, confirmed COVID-19 case, please follow the protocol below.

  1. Inform the North Carolina Department for Health and Human Services at 919-856-7044 who will help track down others exposed to the sick person.
  2. Inform your property manager who can notify tenants and building service providers.
  3. Undertake a deep cleaning of your space.  Your York Property Managers will do the same for common areas and can provide recommendations for janitorial services if needed.

Concerned you may be sick?  Please read here for information on where to get tested.

Our objectives are to help you:

  • Minimize the impact on your customers, owners, and investors.
  • Maintain business operations.
  • Be your calm and controlled adviser.

 

Don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Black History Month: Awesome Individual Highlight

Meet Brandi Weaver, founder of the WORLD L!T STREET FOOD FESTIVAL:

Brandi is a Charlotte, NC based creative and catalyst for change, championing cross-cultural exchange.  She is a Durham native and NC STATE grad, with fifteen-years as an engineer at Duke Energy. She recently traded in her STEM career for a focus on multiculturalism, working to bring the community together across cultural divides.  She founded a platform called WORLD L!T where she promotes and curates local cultural events.  Its purpose is to highlight the rich cultural fabric of her community and help guide people to opportunities to experience different cultures.  She feels very strongly that exposure to persons of different heritage within our own communities can help dissipate the divisiveness of ignorance, and thus make us stronger.

The highlight of her work was the WORLD L!T STREET FOOD FESTIVAL. She founded and produced this event which debuted in Charlotte, NC at Camp North End on September 2019 and attracted over 2400 attendees. The WORLD L!T STREET FOOD FESTIVAL was the manifestation of Brandi’s vision to give people a chance to connect and experience a variety of cultures. The goal was to curate a fun, experience that was enriching for US natives, as well as for those who have journeyed here from afar. Recognizing the challenges (economic and otherwise) faced by newer members of our community, the WORLD L!T STREET FOOD FESTIVAL was designed to give them a taste of home at one of Charlotte’s hottest venues.

Brandi is working to grow this festival to increase its impact on the greater community.

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Retail happenings around the Triangle

Our brokerage crew has been hopping!  Check out what’s in store:

  • Over The Moon Playspace, a children’s educational and entertainment center, has just signed a lease at Village Square Shopping Center in Cary.  Look for them to open this summer.
  • Gateway Plaza Shopping Center off Crabtree Boulevard in Raleigh has two exciting shops coming soon.  In May Arrichion Hot Yoga will open their doors.   Later on in the year get ready for Wyatt’s Barbecue.  They’ve just leased 5,000 SF of space and we can’t wait to try it out!
  • Onward Reserve, a men’s casual clothing store, will have their grand opening in Cameron Village on April 3rd.  If you just can’t wait till April check out their website and promo for free ground shipping.
  • If you like vinyl records and beer, get ready to be delighted!  Hunky Dory, out of Durham, is opening a shop at 111 Seaboard in Raleigh.  They’re taking over the former Brew space, ETA 30 days.
  • Killjoy, a bar serving tailored cocktail experiences to all, will open in March at 116 N. West Street (just across from Clouds Brewing).   More about this unique concept here: https://raleighmag.com/2020/02/bar-for-al

 

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Black History Month: Joe Holt, Jr.

Throughout the month of February,  we are shining the light on African-American history and stories here in Raleigh and Wake County.

The excerpt below is from Smedes York’s upcoming book Raleigh: What We Remember, a collection of oral histories from Raleigh natives.  Joseph Holt, Jr. is one of the interviewees.  We expect Raleigh: What We Remember to hit shelves at Quail Ridge in the second quarter of the year.

Joseph Holt, Jr. family’s trail-blazing efforts on behalf of the Civil Rights Movement and the integration of Raleigh’s school began two years after the U. S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling declaring segregation in the nation’s public schools unconstitutional, and one month after the NC General Assembly enacted legislation (the Pearsall Plan) designed to thwart public school integration.  … The Holt struggle was a solitary one.  They became socially isolated, as many former friends, fearing white reprisals, began to distance themselves from the family.  Over the next several years [they] endured constant duress, experiencing intimidation and harassment from angry whites, receiving hate mail and threats on their lives from hate groups, enduring unreasonable demands from creditors, and suffering numerous economic reprisals.  His parents even received word that there was a plot to abduct their son.  The legal battle the Holts waged in federal court in the form of a suit against the Raleigh City School Board exhausted the family emotionally and physically.  The Holt fight ended in October 1959 when Joseph H. Holt, Jr. was in his senior year at J. W. Ligon Junior-Senior High School.