City Salutes Neighbors and Neighborhoods for Enriching Community

Winners Announced for 2025 Neighborhood Awards

October 08, 2025

Engaged, collaborative neighborhoods are essential for community success. To highlight their importance, for more than 40 years, the City of Tallahassee has held the Neighborhood Awards program. It proudly honors the outstanding work being done by neighborhood leaders and residents to further enhance and enrich their communities.

An impressive crowd of residents, representing some of Tallahassee's nearly 300 neighborhoods, attended the awards program on Oct. 6 at The Parkview at Cascades, to celebrate and find out who would take home these coveted honors. The call for nominees yielded applications that shone a light on a plethora of good-hearted citizens who take great care of their neighbors and great pride in their neighborhoods. They make Tallahassee, with its welcoming environment and natural beauty, an even better place to call home. Below are this year's winners.

Winners of the 2025 Neighborhood Awards

Outstanding Neighborhood of the Year: There are two categories for this award, and the winner in each received $500 to put toward a neighborhood project.

• Small Neighborhood of the Year (fewer than 200 homes)
• Lucerne at Woodlands Homeowners Association
• Large Neighborhood of the Year (more than 200 homes)
• Killearn Homes Association

Outstanding Neighbor of the Year:

• Neighborhood Advocacy
•  Vandon Jones, Jake Gaither Neighborhood Association
• Neighborliness
• Mike Brezin, Betton Hills Neighborhood Association

Best Neighborhood Program of the Year

• Physical Improvement
• First Place: Avalon at Maclay Neighborhood Association
• Second Place: Waverly Hills Neighborhood Association
• Third Place: Jake Gaither Neighborhood Association

• Social Improvement
• First Place: Villas at Pine Forest Homeowners Association
• Second Place TIE:
• Waverly Hills Neighborhood Association
• Jake Gaither Neighborhood Association
• Communication
• First Place: Griffin Heights Neighborhood Association
• Second Place: Jake Gaither Neighborhood Association
• Third Place: SummerBrooke Property Owners Association

View photos from the celebration. For more information about the City's Neighborhood Awards Program and available neighborhood resources, visit Talgov.com/Neighborhoods.