Last week's NAIOP Maryland Community Service project, benefitting the Living Classrooms’ Crossroads School in Baltimore City, involved the enhancement of the exterior grounds to benefit its student body and the Living Classrooms’ Foundation. The effort was co-chaired by Todd Summerfield of Liberty Property Trust and Connie Rhodes of Rhodes Development, LLC.

NAIOP Maryland Community Service Co-Chairs Todd Summerfield, Liberty Property Trust and Connie Rhodes, Rhodes Development, with Richard Slinghoff, Operations Manager of Living Classrooms and Tim O'Ferrall, Executive Director of NAIOP Maryland.

Here is a look at some of the numbers:

- 800 man hours invested

- 1,000 square feet of sod installed with an irrigation system

- 260 shrubs and plants installed

- 10 raised-bed planters constructed

- 40 cubic yards of mulch laid

- 100 cubic yards of top soil installed

- 20 cubic yards of stone installed

- 400 linear feet of wrought iron fencing painted

- 100 pounds of invasive materials removed

Committee members included Ryan Burrows, JLL; Morgan Gilligan, Stewart Title Guaranty Company; Dave Jaques, KANE Construction; Kate Jordan, Lee & Associates; Matt Lenihan, St. John Properties; Spencer Perry, BB&T; Steve Pilar, Brightview Landscape; Ashley Reimer, Merritt Properties; Michele Salvino, First Potomac Realty Trust; Danielle Schline, Prologis; Kristen Schrader, KBE Building Corporation and Liz Tarran-Jones, Merritt Properties.

Platinum sponsors were Brightview Landscaping, Chesapeake Contracting Group, First Potomac Realty Trust, Gilbane Building Company, The MacKenzie Companies, Merritt Properties, Miles & Stockbridge Foundation, Prologis and St. John Properties.

Gold sponsors were Continental Realty Corporation, Corporate Office Properties Trust, DCT Industrial Trust, Heritage Properties, KBE Building Corporation, Liberty Property Trust, Stewart Title Guaranty Company and The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company.

Silver sponsors were Ammon Heisler Sachs Architects, ARCO Design/Build Mid-Atlantic, Arris, A Design Studio, Daft McCune Walker, Encore Sustainable Design, Greenfield Partners, Lee & Associates, NFD Interior Planning + Design, The Columbia Bank and The Mullan Contracting Company.

Todd Summerfield, Liberty Property Trust; Spencer Perry, BB&T and Matt Lenihan, St. John Properties.

The KBE Building Corporation team: Matt Wolfe, Micah Boyce, Eric Brown, Jen Luckert and Kristen Schrader

Chung Gobell, Heath Design Group

The St. John Properties team