Bob & Colleen Hutchins along with Mac McKnight display this year's plaques.

Plateau Area Builder Scores a Hat Trick 

Pocono Builders Association held its annual awards banquet at the Stroudsmoor Inn on Wednesday September 16.   Centennial Homes, Inc. of Blakeslee repeated its 2007 and 2008 performance by earning five more awards (a hat trick). 

Centennial Homes, celebrating its 22^nd year in business, has previously won awards in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2008.  Centennial Homes, Inc. received awards this year in the following categories: 

1. Best Residential Construction under 1500 square feet. 
2. Best Residential Architecture under 1500 square feet.
3. Best Residential Architecture under $150,000. 
4. Best Residential Architecture between 1500 and 2500 square feet.
5. Best Residential Architecture between $150,000 and $225,000.

Robert Hutchins, Centennial’s Vice President and production manager said, "I always try to be positive so I expected to win at least one award this year.  In the past, we have won awards for quality construction, affordability and value but this year we are thrilled to also have won for architecture."

Each year members of the Pocono Builders Association submit homes to a panel of judges from outside of the area.  They are judged on quality, value, architecture and affordability.  Winners are presented with their awards at their annual banquet and the homeowners involved receive identical plaques. 

The awards coincide with the completion of Centennial's first "Living Green home" ,  a three thousand square foot split  level which was built in Tannersville.

Jim Hutchins, Centennial’s CEO put it this way, “We are, of course, very proud of our success in winning five more awards.  I think they are yet another indicator of our efforts to always remain in the vanguard of the building community—in this instance, it is thru quality construction, design, and value .”

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