The six winners of American City & County's 2010 annual excellence awards, described on the following pages, exhibit the qualities that build strong communities: cooperation, creativity and leadership. In some of the winning projects, necessity was the mother of invention, and in others, foresight and perseverance came together in the right formula to achieve success.

Although the winning projects are in specific locations, the ideas that contributed to their successful completion could be practiced anywhere.

The winners are:

• The Coral Gables Museum Project - Coral Gables, Fla.
• Washington Park Stormwater Improvement Project - Downers Grove, Ill.
• 56th Avenue Public Safety Training and Maintenance Facility - Hollywood, Fla.
• Public Works Operations and Vehicle Storage Buildings - Pinellas County, Fla.
• Lakefront Park - Round Lake Beach, Ill.
• Heart Safe Sandy Springs - Sandy Springs, Ga.

Past America's Crown Communities winners

• America's Crown Communities 2009
• 2008 America's Crown Communities
• 2007 America's Crown Communities
• 2006 America's Crown Communities - County
• 2006 America's Crown Communities - City
• 2005 America's Crown Communities
• 2004 America's Crown Communities