By Joyce Barrett on January 26, 2010
Heritage Ohio is happy to announce that we have received a $99,000 grant from the USDA to provide technical assistance to business people in targeted rural communities. Our program “Retail is Detail” provides market analysis and individual business recommendations to participants to fine-tune their strategy for succeeding in bringing more more jobs and business to [...]
Posted in Main Street News, Our Blog | Tagged ARRA, Downtown Revitalization, Retail is Detail, USDA funding
By Joyce Barrett on January 22, 2010
Yesterday in Indianapolis I attended a symposium sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA Region 5) entitled “Green Historic Preservation Symposium: What Works, What Doesn’t, What Should Change” What I learned was that the “green-sustainability” constituency from the professional environmental sector knows little about historic preservation and the historic preservation community knows little about the [...]
Posted in Historic Preservation News, Our Blog | Tagged environment, EPA, green, historic preservation, term sustainability
By Joyce Barrett on January 17, 2010
Register for our next Tax Credit workshop to be held in Mount Vernon March 19, 2010. Learn from Ohio’s experts on utilizing tax credits to make your historic building project a reality.
Download the registration form here.
Posted in Events & Workshops, Historic Preservation News, Our Blog | Tagged building rehabilitation, historic, historic preservation, Mt. Vernon Ohio, tax credit, Tax Credits, workshop
By Joyce Barrett on January 13, 2010
There has been a great deal of angst in the preservation community as the government, media and general public banter misinformation regarding incentives for replacing windows as an smart energy saving move.
DO NOT be mislead.
There are, of course, cheap, usually windows of the past 50 years, that should go. But old growth lumber, old windows, [...]
Posted in Historic Preservation News, Our Blog | Tagged energy efficiency, windows
