The Commonwealth Awards honor projects, plans and initiatives that demonstrate smart growth, community resilience, and equity principles in action. The awards recognize individuals, businesses and organizations with the vision to find new uses for vacant and underutilized land, increase opportunities and access for all in communities on the rise, and breathe new life into older neighborhoods.
Throughout our state, developers and planners have risen to the challenge - advancing innovative initiatives and contributing to healthy, resilient, and vibrant communities for all.
2020-2021 Award Winners
10,000 Friends is pleased to announce the Commonwealth Award winners for 2020-2021. To learn more about these incredible visionaries and projects, join us for our webinar series in 2022 and check out the featured projects in our newsletter. Congratulations to all of the award winners!
VISIONARY AWARDS
Joanne Denworth Founders Award
Center for Land Use and Sustainability
Shippensburg, PA
Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, and Perry Counties
Shippensburg University
TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT
Arcadia Land Company
Sadsbury Park
Sadsbury Township, Chester County
Project Team:
Land Planner: Heuser Design
Construction: Technivate Excavating
Engineer: Bursich Associates
Landscape Architect: Jonathan Alderson Landscape Architects
Sadsbury Township
Chester County Planning Commission
NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION
Community Strategies Group
LaSalle Neighborhood Revitalization
Berwick, Columbia County
Upstreet Architects
Charles W. Grimm Construction, Inc.
ADAPTIVE REUSE – LARGE SCALE
Oak Tree Development Group
The Wilbur
Lititz, Lancaster County
Project Team:
Land Planning: RGS Associates
Architect: RLPS
Construction: Wohlsen
Art: Salvaging Creativity
Traffic: Traffic Planning and Design
Lighting: Alderson Engineering
Borough of Lititz
RESILIENCY
York Fresh Food Farms
York, York County
PROJECT AWARDS
Accelerator Building
Lancaster, Lancaster County
Historic Restoration – Commercial / Mixed Use
Henrietta Heisler Interiors Inc.
Stuart & Associates Architects, Inc.
Beaver Street Project
York, York County
Royal Square Development & Construction
Bellefonte Mews
Bellefonte, Centre County
Progress Development Group LLC
UpStreet Architects, Inc.
The BenMar Apartments
Harrisburg, Dauphin County
Developers: River & Pine LLC (an affiliate of Harristown Enterprises), Select Capital Commercial Properties, and Donald Mowery
Architect: byDesign Consultants, inc.
Construction: Mowery
Capitol Theatre at the Appell Center for the Performing Arts
York, York County
The Appell Center for the Performing Arts
Warehaus
Kinsley Construction
Lacawac Sanctuary Solar Array Project
Lake Ariel, Wayne County
Lacawac Sanctuary
SEEDS of Northeastern Pennsylvania
Live & Work at Central and
Rose Rent Lofts
Chambersburg, Franklin County
McKissick Properties LLC
McKissick Associates
General Contractor: JC Orr
Maplewood Mall
Germantown, City of Philadelphia
City of Philadelphia Department of Commerce
Philadelphia City Planning Commission
Philadelphia Water Department
City of Philadelphia Streets Department
Philadelphia Parks and Recreation
Germantown United Community Development Corp.
Whitman, Requardt and Associates, LLP (WRA)
Ground Reconsidered
Contractor: JPC Group Inc.
McCartney Street Housing, Phase 1
Easton, Northampton County
Lafayette College
Radnor Property Group
Atkin Olshin Schade Architects
Mount Vernon Terrace
Waynesboro, Franklin County
Luminest Community Development
UpStreet Architects
Charles W. Grimm Construction, Inc.
Mulligan Center for Engineering
Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County
King's College
Radnor Property Group
WKL Architecture
General Contractor: L.R. Costanzo
Oxford Multi-Modal Transportation Center
Oxford, Chester County
Borough of Oxford
Krug Architects
The Harman Group
Uptown!Knauer Performing Arts Center
West Chester, Chester County
Developer: Uptown!Entertainment Alliance (U!EA) and Uptown! Bravo Theater LLC
Homsey Architects
Bancroft Construction
PLANS & POLICY INITIATIVES
City of Harrisburg Comprehensive Plan: HBG2020
Harrisburg, Dauphin County
City of Harrisburg Bureau of Planning
Office for Planning and Architecture, Inc
New Cumberland Revitalization Strategy
New Cumberland, Cumberland County
Borough of New Cumberland
Gannett Fleming, Inc.
GoShamokin Economic Revitalization Plan
Shamokin, Northumberland County
SEDA-COG
City of Shamokin
Stromberg Garrigan & Associates, Inc.