KJAN: 2025 Best Development Award Winners Announced

1000 Friends of Iowa has announced the winners of the 2024 Best Development Awards during a ceremony. The announcement took place this week at the Capitol in Des Moines. The awards honor projects that recognize connections between building and project development and quality of life. With a mission focused on responsible land use, 1000 Friends of Iowa promotes smart growth planning principles that help achieve socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable communities.

The winning projects of this year’s awards and categories are:

Innovative Leadership – Local: Rippling Waters (Ottumwa)
Innovative Leadership – State: Conservation Acceleration Fund of the Great Outdoors Foundation
Mixed Use: Star Lofts (Des Moines)
New Residential: The Row on 1st (Council Bluffs)
Renewable Energy: Albia Schools Solar + Battery Project (Albia)
Brownfield Revitalization: Harriet Street Brownfield Solar Field (Des Moines)
Renovated Commercial – Small: Sequel Architecture Historical Renovation (Des Moines)
Renovated Commercial – Large: Willards-Hopkins Historic Rehabilitation (Marshalltown)
Bright Futures: Luther College (Decorah)
Renovated Residential: Historic Winterset High School Apartments (Wapello)
Transportation/Complete Streets: Ingersoll Avenue Streetscape (Des Moines)

The Best Development Awards are selected from a pool of applications each year and judged by an independent group of jurors.

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