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John B. Cruz III is the 15th recipient of the BBJ’s Alnoba Lewis Family Foundation CEO Social Leadership Award, given to an executive who goes beyond in creating solutions to help solve Greater Boston’s biggest community challenges.

The Boston Preservation Alliance presented its 2021 President’s Award for Excellence to John Cruz and Cruz Companies. A third-generation family business based in Roxbury, the Cruz Companies are dedicated to developing and constructing landmark projects, residential buildings and helping Boston’s urban community through their social responsibility branch, Cruz CARES.

Four years after the City of Boston established more ambitious goals for equitable hiring in construction jobs, none of the city’s top projects hit the standard for hiring women and less than a third met the standard for hiring people of color, according to five years of city data obtained by GBH News.

City data shows that for the top 150 projects in Boston in the last five years, less than a third met racial equity goals.

Hemenway & Barnes is pleased to sponsor the Boston Preservation Alliance 33rd Annual Preservation Achievement Awards. The Awards will be presented both in person on October 27, 2021 and via a digital screening on November 4, 2021.

The Boston Preservation Alliance is pleased to present our 2021 President’s Award for Excellence to John Cruz and Cruz Companies. A third-generation family business based in Roxbury, the Cruz Companies are dedicated to developing and constructing landmark projects, residential buildings, and helping Boston’s urban community through their social responsibility branch, Cruz CARES.