Heritage Sandswas conceived and developed jointly by CapeBuilt Development, LLC and MS Ocean View, LLC as Cape Cod’s first oceanfront cottage community in more than 50 years.

In addition to winning “Community of the Year,” Heritage Sands received Platinum honors from the NAHB as the 2016 Best Single-Family Community under 100 units, and was recognized as the Best project in the North Atlantic Region among all new construction, renovations, custom residences, individual room projects, and community scale development by NAHB members. Including last week’s recognitions from the NAHB, Heritage Sands has received a total of 16 industry awards in just two years.

“Recognition by the NAHB with a Best in American Living Award would be a career highlight for any real estate developer. To be recognized with three awards including Community of the Year is simply beyond our wildest dreams,” said Rob Brennan, president of CapeBuilt Development, LLC.

In singling out Brennan and DeWitt’s neighborhood as best in the nation from among all other communities under development in 2016, the NAHB expert panel of judges were impressed by “the rich sense of place” at Heritage Sands, and the degree to which the neighborhood bridges modern construction and amenities with the history of traditional summer cottage communities on Cape Cod.

The Heritage Sands team includes MS Ocean View LLC, Douglas Kallfelz of Union Studio Architects, Design Consultants Inc., Matter Communications, Bank of Cape Cod, interior designer Angela Hamwey of Mackenzie & Company, and photographer Alison Caron. The project’s municipal partners include the Town of Dennis Selectmen and Planning Department.

Now in its 33rd year, the Best in American Living Awards (BALA) is the residential building industry’s premier awards program that spotlights the most creative and talented builders, remodelers, architects, residential and building designers, developers, land planners and interior designers who have redefined design excellence for homes and communities throughout the nation and internationally. The evening’s events also included the induction of residential design and construction industry luminaries Robert Toll, Andres Duany, Arthur Rutenburg, Sanford Steinberg, Marc Thee and the Dahlin Group into the Best in American Living Awards Hall of Fame.

Set among the sand dunes of Old Wharf Road in Dennis Port, Mass., and overlooking Nantucket Sound, Heritage Sands offers one-, two- and three-bedroom homes that combine classic architecture, hurricane code coastal construction, smart design, energy-efficient systems, and the community fabric that has defined “cottage living” on Cape Cod for generations. Over 50 families have already claimed a cottage at Heritage Sands as their family’s “place on the Cape”.   

The National Association of Home Builders is the residential building industry’s Washington-based trade association representing more than 140,000 members involved in home building, remodeling, multifamily construction, property management, subcontracting, design, housing finance, building product manufacturing and other aspects of residential and light commercial construction. NAHB is affiliated with 800 state and local home builders’ associations around the country. NAHB’s builder members will construct about 80% of the new housing units projected for this year.