2009 Top of the Heights Winner
Best Women's Shoe Store

The Top of the Heights is a promotional contest and city guide conducted by The Heights and CityVoter that profiles local businesses and allows consumers to vote for their favorites. Voting was conducted online at www.topoftheheights.com. As the only image-based directory of local businesses, The Top of the Heights brings together information and visual content to form a unique place for local businesses to promote their business.

Nominations can come in through multiple channels. Businesses are nominated by the research team at The Heights and CityVoter based on merit. Additionally, nominations come in anonymously and are evaluated for accuracy.

Votes were only accepted on the official Contest Site. Voting began February 2, 2009, and ended February 27, 2009. Contest winners were determined by popular vote. Consumers could only vote once making The Top of the Heights the most accurate and fair online voting available. The company with the most votes during the defined voting period won. Although paid promotion packages might help increase business visibility on the site, advertising in no way impacted the vote count. The Top of the Heights and contest results reflect voter preferences, and not The Heights or Boston College endorsement.

The Barn Family Shoe Store is proud and honored to add this most recent recognition to its other awards: #1 for 10 years in a row in the Community Newspapers Readers Choice Awards for Best Family Shoe Store, The Best of Boston Award for the Kids Barn, Boston area Retailer of the Year, and #1 Kids’ Shoe Store in the First Annual Parents’ Pick Awards.