Our annual Community Improvement Awards (CIA) give us the unique opportunity to express and recognize the otherwise ineffable sense of built character that keeps the Heights “Heights-y.” Now that our neighborhood encompasses so many architectural styles and buildings spanning over a century of development, it is hard to say exactly what it is that constitutes traditional Heights character in new constructions and renovations. To answer that question each year, we solicit nominations from the neighborhood and ask a panel of trusted judges to review them against a rubric ultimately designed to answer the question, “Does this building improve the Heights community and landscape?”
Thank you to this year’s CIA Chair David Crowl, to our judges, and to each person who nominated buildings from within the neighborhood for consideration.
