Mills Properties Inc. earns top industry honor.Mills Properties Inc. won the St. Louis Apartment Association's 2004 Management Company of the Year award. Entries are judged on their competence in managing multifamily housing communities, involvement in the community, employee benefits and education and involvement in various multifamily housing organizations. This marks the third time in the past decade that Mills Properties has won this award. Mills Properties was founded in 1979 for the purpose of developing, owning and managing real estate in the St. Louis market including apartment% office buildings, shopping centers shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into and hotels. In the mid 1990s, Mills Properties made the strategic decision to focus solely on its core competency--the development, acquisition and management of apartment communities. During the past three years, Mills Properties has grown by more than 50 percent to include a portfolio of 20 communities with more than 4,000 apartments. "We are striving for continued growth in the Midwest region in order to further enhance our name as one of the premiere developers," said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bruce Mills. Arizona Multihousing Association Presents Awards The Arizona apartment industry honored hon·or n. 1. High respect, as that shown for special merit; esteem: the honor shown to a Nobel laureate. 2. a. Good name; reputation. b. its best when, before a record crowd of more than 1,000, the Arizona Multihousing Association (AMA (Automatic Message Accounting) The recording and reporting of telephone calls within a telephone system. It includes the calling and called parties and start and stop times of the call. ) presented 18 awards to communities and individuals who "achieved a standard of unqualified excellence" in their respective categories. * Named the best community built between 2000 and 2003 was Camelback cam·el·back adj. Shaped like a hump or an arching curve. n. New Orleans A narrow house with one story in front and two in the rear. See Regional Note at beignet. Square, a 367-unit community in Phoenix. Managing the community is Gray Clow Residential. * Chosen as the best community built between 1990 and 1999 was Pavilions on Camelback in Phoenix. Gray Clow Residential manages the 64-unit community. * Selected as the best community built prior to 1990 was Pacific Bay Club, a 192-unit community in Phoenix. Picerne Real Estate Group manages the community. Judges for the 12th Annual AMA/Cox Communications Tributes Awards praised the three communities for appealing and functional floor plans, interior features and layout. They noted overall architecture and amenities plus design maintenance. Points also went for community cleanliness Cleanliness See also Orderliness. Cleverness (See CUNNING.) Berchta unkempt herself, demands cleanliness from others, especially children. [Ger. Folklore: Leach, 137] cat continually “washes” itself. , upkeep, signage and, in the best community built prior to 1990 and best community built between 1990 and 1999 categories, financial performance and community involvement. * Chosen as the apartment community with the best onsite staff for a community with less than 200 units was Foxfire fox·fire n. A phosphorescent glow, especially that produced by certain fungi found on rotting wood. , a 188-unit Tempe community, managed by ConAm Management. * Named the apartment community with the best onsite staff for a community with more than 200 units was Chandler Chandler, city (1990 pop. 90,533), Maricopa co., S central Ariz., in the Salt River valley; inc. 1920. It is both a residential community and a center for research and technology. Tourism is also important, and the San Marcos Golf Resort is in Chandler. Place. Trillium trillium or wake-robin (trĭl`ēəm), any plant of the large genus Trillium, attractive spring wildflowers of the family Liliaceae (lily family), native to North America and E Asia. Residential manages the 320-unit Chandler community. * Honored as property supervisor of the year was Kevin Ransil of Mark-Taylor Residential. * Recognized as apartment manager of the year for a community with more than 200 units was Denise Larson of The P.B. Bell Companies. Larson manages Joshua Tree Joshua tree: see yucca. in Scottsdale. * Chosen as apartment manager of the year for a community with less than 200 units was Debie Davis-Allen. She manages Desert Meadows, a Dunlap & Magee Property Management community in Phoenix. |
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