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Plans for bridge staggering over new concerns
Buffalo News, NY
May 14, 2008
By Jerry Zremski
The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s concerns echo those of neighborhood groups in Buffalo, which worry that the plan for a 38-acre truck plaza calls for the taking of 83 homes.
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Jeffersonville Main Street earns national accreditation
Business First of Jeffersonville, KY
May 14, 2008
By Business First Staff Report
Jeffersonville Main Street Inc. has been awarded national accreditation by the National Trust for Historic Preservation's National Main Street Center.
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HLF Celebrates National Preservation Month and Concentrates on Green
Rockbridge Weekly, VA
May 14, 2008
By Patte Wood
To help spread the word, HLF is focusing all of its Preservation Month programs on the subject, "The Greenest Building is the One Already Built." Preservation Month, led by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is a nationwide event designed to bring attention to local, state, and national historic preservation issues, and to celebrate preservation success stories
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SMCM Graduates 426
Southern Maryland Online, MD
May 14, 2008
By SOMD Staff Report
Speaking about his concern for climate change, Moe addressed the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Sustainability Initiative. He said, "Preserving and reusing a building avoids energy waste."
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Letters: Oshkosh should try existing program
Oshkosh Northwestern, WI
May 14, 2008
By Christine Cross
Instead of re-inventing the wheel, I would recommend that the community of Oshkosh look at programs that have been developed to address the issue of downtown renewal. One in particular is the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Main Street Program. "This is a community-driven, comprehensive methodology used to revitalize older, traditional business districts throughout the US", according to the Main Street website www.mainstreet.org. "The Main Street approach is to encourage economic development within the context of historic preservation in ways appropriate to today's marketplace." The program advocates community self-reliance, local empowerment, and the rebuilding of traditional commercial districts based on their unique assets: distinctive architecture, a pedestrian-friendly environment, personal service, local ownership, and a sense of community.
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Urban village here beats Potemkin village on the highway
Wicked Local Roslindale, MA
May 14, 2008
By Carter Wilkie
To help traditional downtowns compete with malls, the National Trust for Historic Preservation started its Main Street revitalization program thirty years ago. The nonprofit Roslindale Village Main Street became one of the first five urban retail centers in the U.S. to join the program in 1985. Boston now has 19 such programs throughout its neighborhoods, including West Roxbury.
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Ratti Building receives prestigious award
Battle Creek Enquirer, MI
Battle Creek Downtown Partnership
By Battle Creek Downtown Partnership
Special thanks to Battle Creek Unlimited, Battle Creek Community Foundation, National City Bank, the State of Michigan, Cool City Initiative, Battle Creek Downtown Development Authority, Summit Pointe, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Home and Gardening Television.
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Redesigning a Building to Preserve Peace in the Neighborhood
New York Times, NY
May 14, 2008
By Nicolai Ouroussoff
Planting modern appendages on top of old buildings is an unnerving trend these days in Manhattan real estate, where soaring prices can make any empty space look like a money-making opportunity. Just two years ago Mr. Foster completed a faceted glass-and-steel tower that pierces the core of the 1928 Hearst Building, a low limestone structure that looked a bit like a mausoleum, anyway. And plans are in the works for a 40-story office tower atop the Port Authority bus terminal and a 140-room hotel on the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan.
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Saving Historic Sites
Times-Picayune, LA
May 13, 2008
By Katy Reckdahl
The National Trust for Historic Preservation and American Express will award $400,000 in grants today to five historic New Orleans sites. All five sites are run by nonprofits. They must complete repairs within a year.
The initiative, called Partners in Preservation, was announced last month with a focus on historic New Orleans sites that are "community-gathering spaces." The awards committee considered each building's importance to its neighborhood, through stories told on a Web site, www.partnersinpreservation.com.
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National Preservation Month declared
Selma Times-Journal, AL
May 13, 2008
By Leesha Faulkner
Selma Mayor James Perkins Jr. recently joined with the National Trust for Historic Preservation to declare May as National Preservation Month.
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