Jan 03, 2023
PresPoll: What’s on the Horizon for Historic Preservation in 2023?
As 2022 is wrapping up it seemed appropriate to have a PresPoll about what’s on the horizon for historic preservation in 2023 and what are preservation’s greatest needs both on the national and local levels. Based on the responses of 204 survey participants, here are ...
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Dec 29, 2022
Weekend News Roundup – December 29, 2022
Wow–we’ve been so busy working on projects to wrap up the year that it’s been a while since our last Weekend News Roundup! So we’re calling this our End of the Year News Roundup: a collection of things we read over the past few months. ...
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Sep 16, 2022
Weekend News Roundup – September 16, 2022
Green Things Sara Bronin’s research considers how legal reforms can help align historic preservation and energy efficiency policy in this white paper for the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. The Guardian reviews the book Building for Change, which looks at creative adaptive reuse with an ...
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Aug 05, 2022
Weekend News Roundup – August 5, 2022
Preservation News A plan to renovate the Main Reading Room in the Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress has preservationists pushing back. An spectacularly 80s New York City subway entrance inside a Wall Street skyscraper is set to be demolished, raising questions about the ...
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Jul 15, 2022
Weekend News Roundup – July 15, 2022
Preservation News Five Alabama HBCUs will receive 2.5 million in historic preservation grants to preserve historic places on their campuses. An accidental documentation project led to the Rural Indexing Project, an extensive index of vernacular roadside buildings across America. Green-ish A project redeveloping a former ...
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Jun 03, 2022
Weekend News Roundup – June 3, 2022
Preservation News The National Park Service announces $7.27 million dollars will go towards funding grants to help with preservation in rural communities. The National Trust for Historic Preservation published its list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2022. PBS News highlights five U.S. ...
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Jun 01, 2022
Status of Historic Preservation PresPoll
May is Historic Preservation Month, so it seemed appropriate to have a PresPoll on the status of historic preservation in the United States. The link to the survey was shared via our three Facebook pages (PlaceEconomics, Heritage Strategies International, and Donovan Rypkema) as well as ...
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Apr 22, 2022
Weekend News Roundup – April 22, 2022
Celebrate Earth Day! PlaceEconomics staff members attended this webinar on Calculating Carbon Savings from Building Reuse and Retrofit hosted by the Preservation Leadership Forum. The tool makes important steps towards quantifying the benefits of adaptive reuse. Pennsylvania is exploring a legislative solution to combat climate ...
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Feb 25, 2022
Weekend News Roundup – February 25, 2022
Preservation News Corretta Scott King’s childhood home, and the house where she and Martin Luther King Jr. were married in 1953, has been slowly deteriorating for the past several decades. “It’s actually more typical than you’d imagine. We pass by many Black heritage sites every day, ...
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Jan 14, 2022
Weekend News Roundup – January 14, 2022
Wow, it’s been a while since we delivered a News Roundup! Here’s the first of 2022 and what we’ve been reading while we were on winter break: Challenging Histories Katherine Malone-France looks at how we’re redefining preservation for 2022, as a “dynamic effort that is ...
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