Excelsior condominium, 400 S Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
Extolling the virtues of a natural canopy, multihued hedges and trees that, at maturity, don’t interfere with utility lines, Barbara Benefield announced the annual Boca Raton Beautification Committee Landscape Excellence Awards for 2015.
Presented at a ceremony and luncheon at Boca Raton City Hall on June 3, the awards recognized five businesses and homeowners associations that improved their landscaping over the past year.
These included the Excelsior Condominium, which had previously won the high-density residential award in 2009; and, for the first time, a winner in the duplex category.
Benefield, president of the beautification committee now in its 33rd year, recalled that in years past the committee has presented 10 to 11 awards at the ceremony. “But people are not landscaping like they used to, and I miss it,” she said.
However, owners of this year’s award-winning properties are doing their part. “It places like these that make Boca Raton beautiful,” said Benefield.
The winners are:
• Medium-Density Property — University View, 2190 NW 4 Court
• Small Commercial Property — Coventry Square, 6599 N. Federal Highway.
• High-Density Residential Property — Excelsior Condominium, 400 S. Ocean Blvd.
• Duplex Residential Property — 676 Hastings St.
• Low-Density Residential Ungated Property — Timbercreek, St. Andrews Boulevard between Glades and Potomac Roads.
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