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Brendon Homes receives 3 national awards for Adams Farm Community

Adams Farm, Brendon Homes' newest residential community for adults 55 and over, has won three national awards presented by The National Association of Home Builders' 50-Plus Housing Council: the highly-coveted Gold Award for "Best Small Active Adult Community in the United States" (under 200 homes), the Gold Award for "Best Interior Merchandising of a Small Clubhouse" (under 6,000 s/f) and the Silver Award for "Best Attached Home Design over 2,400 s/f." Brendon Homes' president Kevin Giblin expressed his gratitude for these national honors which were won while competing against some of the largest homebuilders in the U.S. He attributed Adams Farms' success in winning these awards to the team who has worked on the community since its inception: *Home design architect Shane Structures of Hopkinton, Mass.; *Interior merchandising of both the models and the clubhouse by Design East Interiors of Exeter, N.H., and *The sales and marketing team at PrimeTime Communities in Littleton, Mass.
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