Builders Lauded for Designing Smart Homes

The award-winning Freedom Home in Tampa, Fla. Photo courtesy of New Millennial Homes

Four companies have won the 2008 Livable Communities Awards for creating homes that are safe, accessible and easy to live in. Cosponsored by AARP and the National Association of Home Builders, this year’s awards went to: Interior Design Details, for the remodeling of a home in Brea, Calif., for a woman with limited mobility; New Millennial Homes, for the Freedom Home in Tampa, Fla., an affordable, three-bedroom bungalow that accommodates wheelchairs; the Winery LLC, for developing a 45-condominium campus with level entrances and cobblestone walkways, on Bainbridge Island, Wash.; and HallKeen, the Braverman Company and New Boston Fund, for developing a mixed-used complex in Winooski, Vt., with a riverfront walkway and access by public transportation to shopping and services.

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