Hoover Fire Station No. 4 wins top beauty award
Hoover Fire Station No. 4 on Municipal Drive is the overall winner of the 2016 Hoover Beautification Board’s commercial beautification awards.
The fire station is this year’s winner of the Mayor’s Award, given to the property with the most points as determined by a panel of three judges.
Properties were judged on: overall appearance of the building and grounds; creativity with entrance features, trees, seasonal color beds and other woody vegetation; and design, color coordination, use of natural features and blending in with the surroundings.
Other 2016 winners included:
- Single-tenant business — E.A. Renfroe & Co. in Meadow Brook Corporate Park
- Shopping center or strip mall — Riverchase Galleria
- Restaurants — Superior Grill on U.S. 280
- Hotels and motels — Homewood Suites in Riverchase
- Banks — U.S. Ameribank, Meadowbrook branch
- Service stations — Bluff Park Exxon
- Professional offices — Tower Development Office Building on Lorna Road
- Churches — Episcopal Church of the Holy Apostles
- Large office complexes — Chase Corporate Center
- Educational facilities — Prince of Peace Catholic School
- Other — Galleria Woods retirement and health care community
- Tree Conservation Award — Chase Corporate Center
Three businesses also remain on the Beautification Board’s Honor Roll, which is for businesses that at some point won awards at least three consecutive times: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, Danberry at Inverness retirement community and the Renaissance Ross Bridge Golf Resort & Spa.
The commercial beautification awards are given out every two years. This year’s judges were landscape architect Chuck Kelly, landscape designer Denise Obert and arborist Jim Paramore.
To be considered for an award, all properties must be completely in the city limits of Hoover and comply with all city ordinances.
Judging took place in late June, and winners are scheduled to be recognized Aug. 9 at a luncheon at the Riverchase Country Club. Winners will receive a Beautification Board sign to place on their property for two years.