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MCMILLIN’S MILLENIA SHINES GOLD AT PCBC
--Millenia, a planned 210-acre mixed-use community by McMillin Communities, won two prestigious merit awards at the 47th Annual Gold Nugget Awards, the celebrated event of the Pacific Coast Builders Conference. --
Millenia, a planned 210-acre mixed-use community by McMillin Communities, won two prestigious merit awards at the 47th Annual Gold Nugget Awards, the celebrated event of the Pacific Coast Builders Conference. A nod to its goal of creating a hybrid of suburban and urban neighborhoods, Millenia was recognized with a merit award for Best Community Site Plan for 20 Acres or More as well as Green Sustainable Community of the Year.
The Gold Nugget Awards commemorate national and international builders, developers, architects, and land planners for innovative communities and projects. The award ceremony is an Academy Awards-style event, which includes live entertainment, music and visual presentation of winners.
According to Mark McMillin, president of McMillin Communities, Millenia will be a smart, energy-efficient, pedestrian-oriented, well-planned community that fundamentally changes how neighborhoods are created.
“As the heart of eastern Chula Vista, we knew we wanted to develop a community center where you could do it all: live, work and play,” explained McMillin.
Millenia is designed to be the urban center of the award-winning 23,000-acre Otay Ranch community. It will include more than 3.4 million square feet of commercial space (office, civic and retail) and about 3,000 homes. The San Diego Association of Governments designated Millenia a Smart Growth Urban Center.
“An example from which others will follow, Millenia will have a strong employment and civic component, and a variety of housing types in a series of compact, walkable districts,” said Todd Galarneau, McMillin’s project manager.
Pacific Coast Builders Conference originated 50 years ago, consisting of a group of builders, manufacturers, scientists, architects, environmental engineers and landscape companies with a common goal of innovating and advancing new forms of art and science into community building. Visit www.pcbc.com for more information.
McMillin Communities is one of the McMillin family of companies that has built more than 30,000 homes and created 17 master-planned communities over the past 50 years.