President’s Toronto SUN Column: Awards program will recognize Toronto’s best buildings
Posted by: Toronto Real Estate Admin / Category: Toronto RealtorTREB President’s Column as it appears every Friday in the Toronto Sun’s Resale Homes and Condos section.
June 21, 2013 –
Feeling there was a void of recognition for the great cityscape that the commercial building industry has afforded the GTA, Greater Toronto REALTORS® established the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) Commercial Building Awards last year.
Last year’s program was positively successful, and the winning entries were Habitat for Humanity Toronto in the new building category and Birchstone Centre in the retrofit class. And if last year’s award recipients were any indication of what’s to come, the judges will have a tough decision ahead of them.
For this column, I have invited the Chair of our association’s Commercial Division Cynthia Lai, to tell you more about the 2013 Commercial Building Awards.
As TREB’s Commercial Chair, it is with great pleasure that on behalf of the Commercial Division, we announce the call for nominations. The Commercial Division has given the Greater Toronto Area the opportunity to nominate projects as part of the TREB Commercial Building Awards. Projects can be nominated in various categories such as Green, Industrial, Multi-Use, Institutional and Retail.
Nominated buildings, which must be located within TREB’s jurisdiction and have been completed between January 2010 and November 2012, will be evaluated based on various criteria. These include the project’s sensitivity to the environment, its design and innovation, and its success in answering a specific developmental need in the community.
A panel of judges will visit each of the nominated projects to assess overall exterior design and determine how each fits into its surrounding area. Once each of the sites has been visited, the judges will meet to select one new and one retrofit building for a 2013 TREB Commercial Building Award.
The selected projects will be announced at a special awards ceremony that will take place at the Toronto Real Estate Board offices February 27, 2014.
By recognizing outstanding accomplishments in new and retrofit Commercial buildings we hope to inspire others to continue to strive for excellence, as doing so contributes to the quality of life throughout the GTA and to our city’s strong international reputation.
When we work together to make ours a better city, and take the time to recognize such efforts, we all win. I look forward to keeping everyone up-to-date on the awards and this year’s winners!
Ann Hannah is President of the Toronto Real Estate Board,
a professional association that represents 36,000 REALTORS®
in the Greater Toronto Area.
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