Buying Time for Heritage: How to Save an Endangered Historic Property

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As a part of efforts to save endangered properties and encourage downtown and neighborhood revitalization, the various nation’s most successful historic preservation and downtown development organizations have change into actively involved in real estate. Buying Time for Heritage explains how one nonprofit organization, Preservation North Carolina (PNC), has creatively employed common real estate strategies to save more than 500 endangered historic properties from destruction. As Myrick Howard explains, large sums of money aren’t at all times needed, but knowledge and passion are required.

Howard provides practical tips on how a neighborhood, downtown, or preservation group can get involved in really useful real estate work with only modest resources. Inspiring photographs illustrate his premise that a property is rarely “too far gone” to be renovated, and the rewards of renovation are abundant. Buyers of PNC properties have put them to a multitude of new uses, adding millions of dollars to local tax rolls and creating a large number of jobs. Several properties have been adapted into reasonably priced housing, and thousands of acres of open space have been placed under protective covenants, endlessly restricting their development. Slightly than face off against developers, PNC itself has change into a developer–for community benefit. This volume offers a model for other organizations working to make historic communities thrive.

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