AIRIA Development® Company celebrated five wins at the 2026 Houston’s Best PRISM Awards, held October 10 at Royal Sonesta Houston Galleria. AIRIA received five awards for its master-planned communities, ARTAVIA® and COLTON®, while three COLTON homebuilder partners earned four additional awards for the model homes located in COLTON.
Presented by the Sales & Marketing Council of the Greater Houston Builders Association (GHBA), the 2026 Houston’s Best PRISM Awards recognized excellence in more than 100 categories spanning People, Product, and Promotion. AIRIA Development Company also served as one of the Diamond Sponsors of this year’s event.
COLTON®, AIRIA’s 5,700-acre master-planned community in Montgomery County, received three awards:
- Best Model Home Park Design – Developer
- Best Sales Brochure – Developer
- Best Website – Developer, for coltontx.com
The winning entries included COLTON’s model home park, printed sales brochure, and website, where prospective homebuyers can find information about the community, its builders, and available homes.
COLTON was also named a finalist in six categories:
- Best Master-Planned Community Landscape Design – Developer
- Best Sales Information Center – Developer
- Best Billboard Branding – Developer
- Best Signage – Developer
- Best Marketing Campaign – Developer
- Best Event Master-Planned Community – Developer, for the Texas Sized Grand Opening in COLTON
Three builder partners received four additional awards for their COLTON model homes.
Coventry Homes’ Tina Huffman-Krause was recognized as the Best On-Site Sales Professional for a Production Builder.
J. Patrick Homes won Best Product Design $600,000 to $800,000 for its Comal II Plan, the builder’s model home in COLTON.
Fedrick Harris Estate Homes, part of Newmark Homes, received two awards for its Messina Plan:
- Best Product Design over $800,000
- Best Interior Merchandising of a Model Home over $800,000
These award-winning model homes are open daily and ready for visitors to come and tour them in COLTON.
AIRIA’s maturing community in Conroe, ARTAVIA®, also earned two PRISM Awards to add to its ever-growing collection of recognitions earned by this Master-Planned Community:
- Best Marketing Campaign – Developer
- Best Ad – Developer
The winning entries featured ARTAVIA’s colorful creative direction and Life in Full Color messaging. The community also earned a finalist placement for Digital Marketing Campaign – Developer.
Ravenna Homes, one of ARTAVIA’s homebuilders, was named a finalist in the Billboard – Production Builder category for itsAward-Winning Luxury Builder – ARTAVIA entry.
The 2026 awards add to ARTAVIA’s previous PRISM Award wins in 2025, when its Art in the Model Park initiative received two awards for featuring sculptures by Texas artist Jeffie Brewer in model home backyards.
AIRIA Development Company was also selected as a finalist for the Grand Award – Developer category.
“We’re proud to see AIRIA and our communities recognized again at this year’s PRISM Awards,” said Lisa Connell, Director of Marketing for AIRIA Development Company.
“ARTAVIA’s marketing and advertising awards, COLTON’s achievements, and the wins for our homebuilder partners represent a great deal of strategy and planning across both communities. We’re grateful to everyone who contributed to these projects and excited to share this success with our teams and builders.”