Closing Bell: BBP Wins Silver Medal for Urban Excellence

Brooklyn Bridge Park was just awarded the 2011 Silver Medal of The Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence. The biennial award spotlights urban places that, through design and development, have lasting transformative impacts on urban neighborhoods and communities. BBP will receive an prize of $10,000. The award program’s founder, Simeon Bruner, had this to say about the waterfront park: “Brooklyn Bridge Park and its fellow 2011 winners illustrate the combination of factors that make good design such a valuable agent of positive change. Beyond achieving aesthetic excellence, these projects demonstrate an intimate understanding of the users’ needs and an imperative to address their broader social, economic and environmental challenges. Each project reflects participation across a wide spectrum of community interests that came together to create beautiful, resourceful and creative urban solutions that serve the future of their neighborhoods and cities.” Nice! The honor will be presented this evening during the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy’s annual fundraiser at the River Cafe.
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