You don't have to be a paying patron of Tiffany & Co. or Saks to enjoy the very best that Chevy Chase has to offer.

Just walk onto the plaza of The Shops At Wisconsin Place, and you'll be in the middle of an award-winning, internationally recognized design-and it's all yours to enjoy.

This past winter, the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) honored The Shops at Wisconsin Place with a Silver Design and Development award in its annual U.S. Design and Development Awards, which recognize "outstanding projects for excellence in the creation of new retail projects, and in the expansion or redevelopment of existing projects," according to a statement issued by the ICSC and New England Development, the Newton, MA-based real estate firm that led the Wisconsin Place development.

Other partners participating in the award-winning design and development of Wisconsin Place were Boston Properties, a real estate investment trust; Archstone, owner and operator of apartment communities across the country; and Somerville, MA-based Arrowstreet, the master planner and retail architect for the project.

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