Smart Growth Excellence Awards
Announced October 2024
The City of Pompano Beach’s Youth Sports Complex Park was the recipient of last year’s Smart Growth Excellence Award.
SGP appreciates communities and projects that have successfully used the principles of Smart Growth to preserve and enhance quality of life while helping to protect public health and the environment.
SGP recognizes projects, policies, and communities that have used approaches that involve a broad variety of stakeholders and are innovative yet could be replicated elsewhere. These awards honor public-and private-sector entities that successfully use Smart Growth Principles to improve communities environmentally, socially, and economically. Awarded projects will be recognized at the Smart Growth Partnership’s Annual Event to be held on November 13, 2024 at The Pride Center at Equality Park, 2pm -5pm.
A little about last year’s award recipient’s project:
The project entailed redevelopment of a parcel formerly owned and operated as the “Elks Club” into a Youth Sports Facility. The City’s first goal was to preserve green space for public use and create a brand-new park for its children. The park creates linear connectivity to the Sample McDougal House, a historically significant and registered house that’s over 100 years old.
Read more about it at Pompano Beach Youth Sports Complex Park.
