MHN Announces the 2024 Excellence Awards Winners
Find out this year's results, including the Executive of the Year and the newest Lifetime Achievement Hall of Famer.
On December 5th, Multi-Housing News hosted its 18th annual Excellence Awards, which honored some of 2024’s most notable multifamily developments, business strategies and professionals. The event, hosted at Resource Furniture in New York City, endowed a total of 90 Bronze, Silver and Gold awards across 36 different categories.
Debra Cafaro, CEO of Ventas Inc., won the editorially determined Lifetime Achievement award, based on her career-long accomplishments, including 25 years at the REIT, which she helped bring out of bankruptcy. Don Wenner, CEO of DLP Capital, won the Executive of the Year award.
Bo Parfet, DLP’s managing principal, delivered the keynote address.
This year’s event was sponsored by Resource Furniture, Rently, Cristaux, American Express and Yardi Systems. The panel of judges who determined the award winners included:
- Christine Gustafson, The Breeden Co.
- Michael Marvin, MRVN Architecture
- K. David Meit, Oculus Realty
- Diana Pittro, RMK Management
Following is the full list of 2024 MHN Excellence Award Winners:
Best Adaptive Reuse
- Gold: Wonder Lofts, Prism Capital Partners, Angelo Gordon and Parkwood Development
- Silver: NoDa Wandry, BB+M Architecture, FCP and The Community Builders
- Bronze: City Ridge, Roadside Development LLC and North American Sekisui House, LLC (NASH)
Best Amenities
- Gold: AVA Arts District, AvalonBay Communities, Inc.
- Silver: Banner Lane, Toll Brothers Apartment Living and L+M Development Partners
Broker of the Year
- Gold: Pete Evans, Berkadia
- Gold: Michael J. Nissley, Colliers International
Most Effective DEI Program
- Gold: Donaldson
- Silver: Greystone
- Bronze: Veris Residential
Best Development & Design: Affordable
- Gold: Blue Oak Landing, Eden Housing Inc.
Best Development & Design: Affordable (Workforce)
- Gold: Gotham Point, Handel Architects
- Gold: Truckee Artist Lofts, Lowney Architecture, Holliday Development and Factory OS
- Silver: Dolores Huerta Apartments, SDS Capital Group
Best Development & Design: High-Rise
- Gold: The Hale, Rodrigo Vargas Design Interiors, Carmel Partners, ECA Architects, MCLA, and Lee and Associates Inc.
- Silver: NOVEL RiNo, Crescent Communities
- Bronze: Overline Residences, Morris Adjmi Architects, Future Green Studio and Brasfield & Gorrie
Best Development & Design: Low-Rise
- Gold: Town Laurel Crossing, Related Group and ID & Design International
- Silver: Manor Hialeah, Related Group and MSA Architects
Best Development & Design: Mid-Rise
- Gold: 55 Brighton, Hacin, The Hamilton Company and Ground, Inc.
- Silver: Optima Verdana, Optima, Inc.
Best Development & Design: Mixed-Use
- Gold: West Falls, Hoffman & Associates
- Silver: Brickline Flats, Prometheus Real Estate Group, Inc.
- Bronze: Kelvin, Studio E Architects
Best Development & Design: Self-Storage
- Gold: Stuf Storage Prospect Heights, Stuf Storage
Best Development & Design: Senior Housing
- Gold: Belmont Village Coral Gables, ID & Design International
- Silver: Stevenson Oaks, AG Architecture
- Bronze: The Set & Coterie Hudson Yards, Handel Architects and March & White
Best Development & Design: Single-Family Rental
- Gold: Perch Denton, Good + West Residential
- Silver: ARCADIA VIEWS, MODUS Companies and Kinella Construction
Best Development & Design: Student Housing
- Gold: Whistler: LV Collective
- Silver: The Broadview, Valerio Dewalt Train
- Bronze: Harmony Commons, Handel Architects, CORE Architects, Arcadis IBI Group and PARTISANS
Development Company of the Year
- Gold: Marquette Companies
- Silver: Crescent Communities
- Bronze: The NRP Group
Best ESG Program
- Gold: Gables Residential
- Silver: Veris Residential
- Bronze: GID-Windsor Communities
Executive of the Year
- Don Wenner, DLP Capital
Facilities & Maintenance Manager of the Year
- Gold: Jorge Parada, Liberty Military Housing
- Silver: Darian Owens, The Breeden Company
- Brozne: Raymond Young, GHP Management
Humanitarian Award
- Gold: Havenpark Communities
Best Interior Design
- Gold: Whistler, LV Collective and Variant Collaborative
- Silver: Avalon Bothell Commons, AvalonBay Communities, Inc.
Leasing Professional of the Year
- Gold: AJ Markowski, Draper and Kramer, Inc.
- Silver: Brandon Drago, The Breeden Company
Lifetime Achievement
- Debra Cafaro, Ventas
Best Marketing Campaign
- Gold: Rambler ATX, LV Collective
- Silver: Cardinal Group Management
Marketing Executive of the Year
- Gold: Anne Baum, Towne Properties
- Silver: Christi Samuelian, Windsor Communities
Best Marketing Strategy
- Gold: LV Collective
- Silver: RKW Residential
- Bronze: Sequoia
Best Operations
- Gold: The Boardwalk at Westlake, Morgan Properties
- Silver: 1350-1360 Lake Shore Drive, Draper and Kramer, Inc.
- Bronze: Hubbard 221, Draper and Kramer, Inc.
Property Management Company of the Year
- Gold: Bozzuto
- Gold: Roers Companies
- Silver: Marquette Companies
- Bronze: Woodmont Real Estate Services
Property Manager of the Year
- Gold: Karen Dake, The Breeden Company
- Gold: Mike Mathis, Donaldson
- Gold: Nicole Roberts, LV Collective
- Silver: Josh Dunston, Quarterra
- Silver: Martha Gaitan-Manning, Draper and Kramer, Inc.
- Silver: BJ Jenkins, The Breeden Company
Rising Star
- Gold: Nathan Clayberg, MLG Capital
- Gold: Avery Rouse, The Breeden Company
Social Media Influencer of the Year
- Gold: Dustin Mullins, The Breeden Company
- Silver: Stephanie Anderson, Grace Hill
Best Social Media Strategy
- Gold: Rambler ATX, LV Collective
- Bronze: NOVEL West Midtown, Crescent Communities
Best Technology
- Gold: Ambient Property Technologies
- Silver: RCKRBX
- Silver: SmartRent
Best Transaction
- Gold: North End Apartments, Old Town Companies
- Gold: Northpoint Apartments, Berkadia
Best Unbuilt
- Gold: Hive Live, AO
- Gold: Spruce & Red Oak, AO
- Silver: Pickle and Hide, LRK
Best Value-Add Renovation
- Gold: The Belden-Stratford, Mansueto Office, Inc.
- Silver: Delta Pearl, Gilbane Development Company, Soto Architecture & Urban Design and Dantes Partners
Best Website
- Gold: Prometheus Real Estate Group, Inc.
- Gold: The Sutton, Northland
- Silver: Monmouth Row, Towne Properties