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Source: The Fayetteville Observer, N.迷你倉沙田C.Aug. 21--The State Employees Credit Union on North Main Street has a way of attracting attention."We have members all the time who say how neat and tidy and how clean it usually looks," said Michael Canady, vice president of the credit union. "I even have a woman who comes by once a year wanting to know if she can cut a bud of the magnolia tree to send to her daughter in Colorado."The building and its well-maintained grounds recently caught the eye of the City-County Joint Appearance Commission.It was selected Best Existing Non-Residential Property, one of 13 community appearance awards. The credit union was the only Hope Mills property selected; about 50 properties county-wide were considered for the honors."I was just so tickled that someone in Hope Mills got it," said Sally Bailey, chairwoman of the Hope Mills Appearance Commission and the town's representative on the Fayetteville-Cumberland County Joint Appearance Commission. "It means we're doing something right as far as landscaping."This is the fifth year the Joint Appearance Commission has honored the properties. The awards were presented July 25 at the Villagio apartment complex on Bragg Boulevard in Fayetteville.Categories included Best Landscaping Project, Best Green Project and Best Restoration of a Historical Property.David Nash, a planner with the city of Fayetteville, said the commission judged the properties by looking at photographs that were submitted with the entries. He said the credit union stoo迷你倉價錢 out among the nominees in its category."They did a really good job of taking a piece of land and leaving a lot of trees on it," Nash said.Hope Mills resident Brenda Cameron nominated the credit union for the award. Cameron is an environmentalist who decries the spread of "urban blight."Too much of Hope Mills Road and other areas are populated by nondescript buildings centered in barren, asphalt parking lots, Cameron said. For her, the credit union is a welcome exception to that rule. She said she appreciates the azaleas, camellias and other flowering plants that brighten the site.In her nominating letter, Cameron called the credit union "an oasis of botanical beauty and landscape."If other developers and planners follow this example, Cumberland County could compare with any community in the world where the trees, landscaping and natural environment are considered assets, and not overhead," Cameron said.Canady said the credit union opened at its current location in May 2009. Before that, it rented space in a storefront.The developers of the site made a conscious effort to present a pleasing front to the community, Canady said."That's the first thing that people see, the outside," he said. "We want the first impression to be a good one."Staff writer Rodger Mullen can be reached at mullenr@fayobserver.com or 486-3561.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.) Visit The Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.) at .fayobserver.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉庫