Community Revitalization
The Community Revitalization (CR) department helps communities use historic preservation as a means to revitalize neighborhoods and commercial districts while protecting their unique sense of place. As an integrated and holistic set of preservation-based approaches that catalyze and effect positive change, community revitalization empowers individuals, governments, and organizations to preserve, restore, and improve their communities. The CR department of the National Trust for Historic Preservation specializes in providing financial, technical and informational resources to build vibrant and sustainable communities - especially those rich in historic resources.
Father and son take in the neighborhood scene from the steps of their historic home.
The National Trust Loan Fund, a certified Community Development Financial Institution, provides loans and lines of credit to nonprofit organizations and for-profit entities to support historic real estate development. NTLF also offers a wealth of expertise to help build the capacity of Main Street communities and Statewide and Local Partners in preservation-based real estate development. Its training topics including utilizing tax incentives, demystifying the loan process and principles of real estate development. It also offers a Preservation Road Show, where a team of NTLF staff visit a community and help local stakeholders shape bankable real estate development projects and plan and finance the creative reuse of existing assets.
The National Trust Main Street Center assists states and more than 1900 communities in the revitalization of business districts within a preservation context. It provides technical assistance to Main Street network communities; publishes rich online and printed content; develops and sells technical publications; and organizes conferences and workshops, including the annual National Main Streets Conference.
The National Trust Community Investment Corporation, a for-profit subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, makes equity investments in historic rehabilitation projects that qualify for federal rehabilitation tax credits, as well as state credits and the New Markets Tax Credit, where applicable.
