Gold Nugget Awards For Pardee Homes

    LOS ANGELES, CA, May 29, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Pardee Homes has earned 6 Awards of Merit for architectural design and planning excellence in the 2013 Gold Nugget Awards. The homebuilder's winners underscore its expertise with distinctively different housing types, and include the luxury estates of Alta Del Mar and the attainable attached designs of Sorrento Terrace, both in San Diego. See www.pardeehomes.com

Alta Del Mar is Pardee's big winner, with 5 Gold Nugget honors for site planning, architectural design of detached housing and landscape architecture. Alta Del Mar is also eligible for to-be-announced project of the year honors for detached residential homes. The luxury enclave is in San Diego's Carmel Valley with views to The Grand Del Mar.

Sorrento Terrace also took a Gold Nugget Award of Merit, for design and planning of multi-family homes with a density of under 18 units per acre. Sorrento Terrace is Pardee's new collection of attached homes in Sorrento Valley, and is attracting first-time buyers employed in high tech and biotech fields.

Pardee Homes' Merit Award winners are all eligible for the coveted Gold Nugget Grand Awards. A celebration of Merit and Grand winners will be staged June 5 in San Diego, as part of PCBC, the nation's largest regional conference and trade show for the real estate development field.

"These Gold Nugget honors hold special meaning to Pardee Homes because they reflect our roots as a custom homebuilder, and as a company that delivered quality affordable homes for World War II veterans," said Mike McGee, the company's president and CEO. "They demonstrate our abiding commitment to creating special places to live, and we are deeply honored to be recognized in this most prestigious competition."

Celebrating its 50th year, Gold Nugget Awards 2013 drew 536 entries, with entrants invited from 14 Western States and internationally. Gold Nugget is the nation's oldest and largest program of its kind, and its presentation of Merit and Grand winners is the signature gala of PCBC -The Premier Building Show. www.goldnuggetawards.com.

Pardee Homes is a leading homebuilder and developer that originated in 1921 in Los Angeles. Creating new homes and communities throughout Southern California and Las Vegas, the award-winning company is acclaimed for quality construction, customer service, green and sustainable building practices and dedication to the educational and civic goals of the communities in which it builds. See www.pardeehomes.com.

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