Recipients of the
David Graham Award for Excellence in Development

2008: Bonita Bay Group for The Brooks

On May 22, 2008 Kitty Green accepted the second annual David Graham Memorial Award for Excellence on behalf of Bonita Bay Group for the Brooks Development. The David Graham Memorial Award for Excellence in Development highlights those completed developments in the community that have raised the bar in Estero and exemplify who David Graham was as a leader and developer. The award is given to one developer per year, who has completed a project of exceptional merit in the Estero community.

The 2008 award committee feels that the Brooks development has created a new standard in Estero, one that has proven difficult to match for other developers. Their transformation of AG-2 land to four residential communities and adjacent commercial properties is exemplary. But beyond that, Bonita Bay Group restored an historic flow way that had been disrupted for decades, created two major arterial roads where there were none, landscaped these roads in a manner that never could have been contemplated by the county, and finally agreed to maintain such landscaping in perpetuity. Altogether, a remarkable achievement.

The award was presented at the Urban Land Institute meeting at the Three Oaks Banquet Center in Estero, Florida by Jack Lienesch of the Estero Community Planning Panel.

2007: Wallace Homes for Rapallo at Coconut Point

On May 23, 2007 Jim Wallace accepted the first annual David Graham Memorial Award for Excellence on behalf of Wallace Homes for the Rapallo at Coconut Point residential development. The award was presented by Neal Noethlich of the Estero Community Planning Panel at the Urban Land Institute meeting held at West Bay Club.


Jack Lienesch (ECPP), Tom O'Dea (EDRC), Neal Noethlich (ECPP), Jim Wallace and Gordon Lyons (EDRC)	Neal Noethlich presents the award to Jim Wallace for Rapallo.