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American Beauty Landscape Wins Two NJLCA Landscape Achievement Awards of Excellence and the Judges Choice Award
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merican Beauty Landscape of Paramus, NJ has won two Awards of Excellence and the Judges Choice Award for their IHA Field Project entered in the 2020 NJLCA Landscape Achievement Awards. American Beauty Landscape entered the IHA Field Project in the Landscaping Installation: School and Landscape Installation: Lighting categories and won the Award of Excellence in both categories. The judges also chose this project for the Judges' Choice Award for 2020. The objective of this project, designed by Jeff Carpenter in collaboration with Edward Clark, LA, was to provide ADA compliant access from the parking lot to the field viewing platform, as well as safe pedestrian access from the exiting elevated paver entry court entrance to the athletic field down the slope. This site is heavily sloped and sits in two municipalities. Material was sourced so the newly installed walkways would seemlessly integrate with existing paver entry court. The project timeline was continualy managed to provide minimal distruption to the schools's academic and athletic activities. American Beauty Landscape Design is a family run landscape contracting firm established in 1973. The company started as a lawn maintenance company, based in Paramus NJ, working out of a one-car garage using only Sensation push lawn mowers and hand held trimmers. The business grew steadily by offering owner supervised crews and by utilizing new techniques and state-ofthe-art equipment.
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Complete The company was incorporated in 1985 and became known as American Beauty Landscape Design Inc. They are still based in Paramus, NJ and continue to offer owner-supervised crews. Amazingly, the company still uses the original old home phone number from 1973! Greg Carpenter continues on as the sole owner of American Beauty now, since Jeff passed away in March of 2020. However, Greg and Jeff worked side by side to make this project a reality and their craftsmanship shows. For more information, visit americanbeautylandscape.com.
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