COSTA MESA, CA-Approximately 250 industry professionals gathered recently at the Center Club to attend a gala evening sponsored by Commercial Real Estate Women Orange County. The event known as the SPIRE awards is the only commercial real estate awards program in Orange County.

Those eligible to win awards at the event (which stands for Superior Performance in Real Estate) included those involved with Orange County developers, interiors firms, construction companies, lenders, brokerage professionals, architects, mortgage bankers and more.

Award-winning projects, the categories in which they won and those involved with the projects include:

• Foxhead Inc., 16752 Armstrong, Irvine—tenant improvements and renovation; Lonnie Nadel and Bill Shubin of Shubin Nadal Realty Investors
• Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove—sale; Maria Rullo Schinderle and Joe Novoa, Diocese of Orange; Timothy R. Busch, Sheila M. Muldoon, the Busch Firm; and Alan H. Martin, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
• Meggitt Inc., 14600 Myford, Irvine—lease; Steve Case, Michael Bennett, Sue Lyle, Jeff Wallace, Holly McManus, Mary Spoerre, Stephanie Vannote and Karla Wynia, Irvine Co.; Ken Kramer and Ren Smith, Nossaman LLP; and Carol Meade and Greg Haly, CBRE
• Sares Regis Group, Boardwalk Apartments, 7441 Edinger, Huntington Beach—loan; Cathy Janke, Kendall Ching and Gerlie Javier, US Bank; Jake Lehmkuhl, Stefan Junus and Kristine Price, California Bank & Trust
• KidWorks Community Development Corp.—non-profit charity; Sharon Kline, CBRE Capital Markets.

As GlobeSt.com reported in January 2012, the first annual “SPIRE Awards” program was put on last year by CREW's Orange County chapter.