Buying Time for Heritage How to Save an Endangered Historic Property

Name: Buying Time for Heritage How to Save an Endangered Historic Property
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ISBN: 9780807858684

ISBN-10: 0807858684

ISBN-13: 9780807858684

Edition: 2007

Authors: J. Myrick Howard

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As part of efforts to save endangered properties and encourage downtown and neighborhood revitalization, many of the nation's most successful historic preservation and downtown development organizations have become actively involved in real estate. This book explains how one nonprofit organization, Preservation North Carolina, has creatively employed common real estate strategies to save more than 500 endangered historic properties from destruction.

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina, Inc.
Publication date: 10/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 197
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

J. Myrick Howard is executive director of Preservation North Carolina and teaches historic preservation in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.




Introduction



Why Historic Preservation Matters: Making the Case for Historic Preservation



Real Estate Is the Name of the Game: Why Preservationists Need to Know and Understand Real Estate



Working with Endangered Properties: How Preservation North Carolina Works with Property



Creative Alternatives to Acquisition: Using Others' Money and Time to Do Your Work



Going to the Mat for a Property: When Purchase Is the Only Alternative



The Architectural Animal Shelter: Marketing Endangered Properties



Closing the Deal While Protecting the Property: The Delicate Balance between the Ideal and the Achievable



Doing the Right Thing and Staying True to the Building: Finding a Balance between Purity and Flexibility



The Functional Nonprofit Preservation Organization: The Need for a Strong Staff and a Supportive Board



A Case Study: Armstrong Apartments in Gastonia: Weaving Together Numerous Tools and Partners - and Keeping Faith



When Success Is Elusive: Dealing with Disasters and Near-Misses



Protection without Ownership: Using Easements to Protect Properties Tat Are Not for Sale



How to Deal with Institutions: Leveraging Your Knowledge and Contacts to Save Institutional Buildings



Complex and Challenging Projects: Creating a Market for Unusual Properties



Building Relocation: Victory or Defeat? Moving Structures May or May Not Be Good Preservation



Museums and Stewardship Properties: What to Do with Truly Special Places



Partnerships for Preservation: Partnering Can Make Larger Projects Possible



The People of Preservation: Preservationists as Social Capital



Purchase Contract



Protective Covenants



Rehabilitation Agreement



Waiver of the Right of First Refusal



Preservation Easement (Historic Preservation Agreement)