Springfield Journal Economic Impact Award Winner's 2007

Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce President Jim Anderson was honored with the Lifetime Achievement in Business award. He joins past recipients Stack, John Q. Hammons, Ralph Manley, Charlie O'Reilly, Larry Wallis, Edwin C. Rice Jr. and Tom Finnie. Butler, Rosenbury and Partners Inc. took home the award in the architecture category. Other finalists were Creative Ink Architects LLC and H Design Group. In the banking category, Commerce Bank was honored, among fellow finalists Guaranty Bank and Ozark Mountain Bank. Council of Churches of the Ozarks was named Charitable Organization of the Year. Ozarks Area Community Action Corp. and United Way of the Ozarks were other nonprofits up for that award. Green Circle Shopping Center, led by Matt O'Reilly and sister Lindsey, was named Innovator of the Year for its use of green-building techniques. Other finalists were 1984 Arcade and U.S. Photonics. Downtown art-house theater Moxie Cinema and its owners, Dan and Nicole Chilton, took the Entrepreneur of the Year honor. JT Restaurant Group – led by Tom Dapp – and Hammer Collections – owned by Mike and Charlotte Dawle -- http://www.bransonedge.com http://www.bransonmissouri.blogspot.com