Sustainability Awards Achieved by Peoria
The City has won the 2010 Big Green Award from the Arizona Chapter of the US Green Building Council for Corporate Green Practices, thanks to our overall Sustainability efforts - please read Page 38 of the article printed in the Arizona Business Magazine.
The City of Peoria has won two statewide awards from the Arizona chapter of the American Public Works Association (APWA): The Charles Walter Nichols Award for Environmental Excellence and the Transportation Project of the Year Award for the Happy Valley Road Improvements Project. View the news release.
Peoria was recently chosen for the Arizona Community Tree Council Municipal Award for our grant-funded SUB-Urban Forestry Program. The program allowed the City to develop a tree grove on the western edge of Parkridge Elementary School. http://aztrees.org/