HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Downtown Center (PDC) announces nine Townie award recipients for 2021. The City of Bradford was awarded in the Physical Improvements & Design category for Public Space Improvement for their “Historic District Streetscape Project.”

The Townie Awards are a festive and esteemed annual tradition designed to recognize the commonwealth’s core communities and individuals for creation and implementation of projects, programs and events that exemplify the goals of PDC’s community revitalization mission. Eligible communities are part of Pennsylvania Downtown Center’s statewide network of nearly 200 organizations, including Main Street and Elm Street programs, making the Townies a competitive award process each year.

PDC’s executive director, Julie Fitzpatrick, said “The annual Townie awards provide an opportunity for us to celebrate these exceptional and inspiring community revitalization projects throughout our commonwealth. Our Main Street and Elm Street programs, staff, board, and volunteers work tirelessly throughout the year to make impactful change in their business districts and neighborhoods, and the Townies give us a chance to reflect on these success stories. The work of community revitalization is never done, it is an ever-evolving community effort. PA’s Main Street and Elm Street programs have continued to provide responsive and innovative programming throughout this past year.”

The awards ceremony takes place as part of PDC’s annual statewide conference, held in a different commonwealth community each year highlighting the respective city or town’s accomplishments in community and neighborhood revitalization. 2020 and 2021 Townie Award winners were recognized Tuesday at this year’s conference in downtown Reading.