PLT/A: Real Estate, Design & Advocacy
PLT/Advanced in Real Estate, Design & Advocacy is intended to increase the capacity of grassroots preservationists for direct involvement with historic properties and to empower grassroots organizations to achieve success in their communities.
[Now I can] figure out how to take a community organization from the "we want" to a first cut analysis of "we can take on this building" or not.
Ann Cousins
Preservation Trust of Vermont
Who Will Benefit?
Real Estate, Design & Advocacy is designed primarily for staff and volunteers of nonprofit preservation organizations directly involved, or considering involvement, in community initiated development projects. Representatives of government agencies that work with these organizations may also benefit.
Goals
- To increase the capacity of grassroots preservation leaders for direct involvement with historic properties and influence on issues that have an impact on the preservation of those properties;
- To empower grassroots organizations and agencies to achieve preservation successes in their communities;
- To support and enhance the national network of leaders in the grassroots preservation movement identified over the past decade through participation in the Preservation Leadership Training.
Typical Schedule
DAY ONE
Orientation and Introductions
DAY TWO
Advocacy and Influence
Participants will learn to effect positive change by:
- Increase the effectiveness of their collaboration by being able to distinguish between a person's position and the interest behind that position;
- Build relationships of trust with people who affect historic preservation in their communities such that they gain influence in steering political and decision-making processes.
Language of the Built Environment (introduction)
Participants will develop a basic understanding of:
- The Secretary of the Interior's Standards and, specifically, how to apply them to preservation projects;
- The limitations of using the Standards in a local regulatory program.
- How professional designers use graphics to visually enhance proposals;
- How site plans, base maps and blue prints can be easily understood;
- How to use building documents to visualize proposed changes.
DAY THREE
Language of the Built Environment (Part II)
Real Estate Development
Participants will be able to:
- Identify the major steps in the real estate development process;
- Calculate alternative measures of return on a real estate investment;
- Perform basic tax calculations on pro forma real estate examples;
- Explain the basic provisions of the historic rehabilitation tax credit.
DAY FOUR
Real Estate Development (continued)
Language of the Built Environment (Part III)
DAY FIVE
Real Estate Development (conclusion)
Language of the Built Environment (Part IV)
DAY SIX
Language of the Built Environment (conclusion)
Program Wrap-Up and Evaluation
