2026 Award Winners

Awards presentation linked here.

Great Places Award
Greensboro Downtown Greenway - Great Healthy Place
Letters from the Lake, City of Raleigh - Great Place for Public Art
Mount Holly's Creative Spaces Initiative - Great Place for Public Art (Honorable Mention)
Downtown Concord Streetscape - Great Street
Downtown Newton Placemaking Successful Streetscape Revitalization - Great Transformation

Marvin Collins Planning Awards
Blueprint Goldston: The Town of Goldston Land Use Plan - Comprehensive Plan
City of Lenoir 2045 Comprehensive Plan - Comprehensive Plan
Gaston County, "A Planned Party" Innovative Public Engagement Through Podcasting - Engagement
Activate! Fairview Active Living Plan 2022–2027, Town of Hillsborough (an initiative of the Fairview Youth in Action) - Engagement
Wilmington Greater Downtown Plan - Engagement
MoveChatham - Engagement (Honorable Mention)
South Greensboro Area Plan - Small Area Plan
Wake County Farmland Preservation Plan - Specialized Plan
Headwaters District Conservation Plan, Jackson County - Specialized Plan
Destination District Placemaking Manual - Specialized Plan (Honorable Mention)
City of Brevard Architectural Standards and Visual Guidelines - Specialized Plan (Honorable Mention)
Hickory Nut Gorge Recovery Plan, Henderson County - Sustainability and Resilience
CATS 2055 Transit System Plan | Moving Forward Together - Transportation
Centralina CONNECT Beyond Mobility Hub - Transportation
Clayton on the Move - Transportation
Navassa MOZE Waterfront Planning Initiative - Advancing Equity
City of Raleigh LGBTQIA+ Historic Context Study - Advancing Equity (Honorable Mention)

Philip R. Green, Jr. Distinguished Service Awards
Alice Wilson
Michael Zehner

Outstanding Student Awards
Logan Worcester, Appalachian State University
Jennifer Watkins, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Samuel McCormack, East Carolina University

Student Projects
Cambell Pfister, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Logan Bealke, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
UNC Spring 26 Workshop, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
West Ehringhaus Street Transformation Plan by Samuel McCormack, East Carolina University
Pinetops Pavilion and Revitalization Project by Lauryn Rodriguez Strothers, East Carolina University (Honorable Mention)
Undergraduate Student Project by Madalyn Gibbs, Joseph Kamery, Sam Matney, Julienne Munson, & Malcolm Thomas, East Carolina University (Honorable Mention)

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