Nine West End Properties Receive Beautification Awards

The Alexandria Beautification Commission has named the city’s 2012 Beautification Award winners, including nine recipients in West End Alexandria.

Citywide, the commission handed out 40 awards, including 34 residential awards, two commercial awards, a community service award and three architectural awards. The award winners for the West End are:

• 85 Arell Court
• Cameron Station Community Association
• 4028 Ellicott Street
• 5916 Jewell Court
• 603 North Naylor Street
• 1401 North Pegram Street
• Seminary Park Community Association
• 22 Underwood Place
• 3940 Vermont Avenue

Additionally, the Alexandria Transit Company (DASH) received a commercial award, and the north parking garage at BRAC won an architectural award.

Commission members, Vice Mayor Kerry Donley and Councilman Paul Smedberg presented the awards in a ceremony Sept. 24 at the Lee Center. Photographs of the 2012 Award winners can be viewed on the city’s website.

The commission sponsors the Alexandria Beautification Awards each year, recognizing community members’ special efforts to contribute to the beautification of their neighborhoods and public vistas with landscaping and overall aesthetic design. Nominations are made by members of the commission and the community and are judged by members on the use of plants, texture and color, neighborhood context, marked improvements and overall appearance.

Winners are limited to properties visible from the public right of way.