The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, through its Energy Innovation Fund, awarded the Columbus Property Management and Development, Inc. a $3 million grant to bring energy innovation and cost savings to affordable housing residents in North, West, South and Northeast Philadelphia. The grant was announced on September 12, 2012, at a special event in Philadelphia.

Pictured from left to right: Katherine Gajewski, Director of the Mayor's Office of Sustainability; Jane Vincent, HUD's Regional Administrator for the mid-Atlantic region; Dr. Donald Schwarz, Health Commissioner and Deputy Mayor for Health and Opportunity for the City of Philadelphia; Cynthia Gardstein, Senior Vice President of Steven Winter Associates; Chris Herrmann, Director of Syndication at Enterprise Community Investment, Inc., and Holly Glauser, Director of Development at Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency.