The Utah Chapter of CCIM has announced that Clark Ivory, CEO of Ivory Homes, has been named the 2022 Excellence Awards Hall of Fame recipient. Ivory will be honored at the organization’s Excellence Awards event on May 14 at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City.
Now in its 10th year, the CCIM Excellence Awards honors professionals in Utah’s commercial real estate industry who exemplify the highest degree of business excellence, according to a CCIM release. Addition award winners spanning more than 15 specialties within the industry will be announced at the event. This year’s event theme is “Ascending to New Heights.”
Ivory heads Ivory Homes, Utah’s No. 1 residential builder for the past 34 years. Since 1988, Ivory Homes has led the Utah market and was recently recognized as the 2021 National Homebuilder of the Year by ProBuilder Media. Ivory is engaged in several initiatives to help build the community and industry. Under his leadership, Ivory Homes has diversified the company’s product offering, completing more than 26,000 single-family homes, townhomes and apartments.
Ivory and his wife, Christine, have also committed to helping the next generation of industry professionals through their support of the Ivory-Boyer Real Estate Center at the University of Utah; various construction and trade programs throughout the state; and by sponsoring Hack-A-House, a 24-hour entrepreneurial hack-a-thon focused on housing affordability. Most recently, the Ivorys established the Ivory Innovations Operating Foundation, which will take best practices from across the country to build innovative, affordable housing in Utah.
“As our community has faced increasing pressure from rising housing costs, Clark and his wife, Christine. have put his company, foundation and civic resources to work to bring innovation and greater affordability to Utah,” said Wes Christensen, CCIM Utah Excellence Awards chair. “These efforts include reserving over 500 homes for Utah’s critical workforce; helping establish the Utah Housing Preservation Fund to preserve our community’s most affordable housing; and establishing the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability, a national prize that sheds light on the most innovative ideas for housing affordability — tremendous accomplishments that are filling a crucial need in today’s housing market and accomplishments which led us to selecting Clark as this year’s Hall of Fame recipient.”