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Villebois receives national home builders' award

Development is named 'community of the year'

• By: Michelle Te  
• Published: 1/26/2010 3:12:16 PM

Photo By: Patrick JohnsonTop award
Wilsonville's master-planned community, Villebois, shown here during a community picnic last summer, recently was named "community of the year" by the National Home Builders Association.

Building may have slowed in Villebois, but it didn’t stop the National Association of Home Builders from naming it the “community of the year” at a recent conference.

Costa Pacific Communities received the “gold award” during a Jan. 19 ceremony in Las Vegas, the second-time it has received this award. In 1999, Costa Pacific was recognized for its work on Orenco Station in Hillsboro.

“It was thrilling to be selected from such prestigious company,” said Rudy Kadlub, Costa Pacific CEO in a press release. “I’m overjoyed that we won this top honor. Villebois is a unique community, unlike any other in the world and I’m proud of its already being recognized for its progressive vision.”

Villebois is described as a “New Urbanist” pedestrian-friendly and transit-oriented community featuring a mix of housing types and a “village center” meant to have a mix of housing and business.

At the Las Vegas conference, Villebois also received golf awards for best logo, best Website for a community, and best product design of an attached home plan.

“The judges were so impressed by the story of Villebois … how thoughtfully the team crafted a ‘new’ sense of place and community,” said Peter Mayer, NAHB judging chairman in the press release. “From the product chosen to the way it was brought to market .. . they were spot on.”

Read more about Villebois’ award in an upcoming issue of the Wilsonville Spokesman.

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