Award Categories

Visionary Award

This award has been inaugurated to honor an individual with significant impact on the Columbus region’s built environment, demonstrating a commitment to improving the communities in which we live and work, and representing the highest standards of responsible, high-quality placemaking and development.

The recipient of the Visionary Award is chosen through a nomination process and selected by the ULI Columbus Governance Committee.

Excellence in Development Award

Two projects are honored in this category—one with total project costs of less than $15 million (small scale), and one with total project costs of $15 million or more (large scale).

The award recognizes transformational projects that best exemplify the development process. Winning projects represent the highest standards in the development industry—standards that ULI members deem worthy of attainment in their professional endeavors.

Winners of the Excellence in Development are selected through an application and jury process. A project team representative can nominate an outstanding development project today for the 2019 ULI Columbus Awards for Excellence. Applications are open to all, not just ULI members.

Community Impact Award

The award recognizes one public, private, or public/private project, building, program, or initiative that has had a measurable positive impact on a community or the Central Ohio region. Examples include a civic use or space, park, plaza, infrastructure, or other physical development, or a program or initiative that has been underway for at least one year that has resulted in positive changes to the built environment.

One Community Impact Award recipient is selected through an application and jury process. A project team representative can nominate an outstanding public amenity project or program today for the 2019 ULI Columbus Awards for Excellence. Applications are open to all, not just ULI members.