[OMS_MANAGERS] New Preservation Toolkit Offers Aid to Owners of Historic Buildings

Wed Aug 31 10:40:44 PDT 2016

Hi Sheri,

If you would like to do a workshop in Eastern Oregon at some point we would
love to host one here.

Debbie

From: OMS_MANAGERS [mailto:oms_managers-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us]
On Behalf Of STUART Sheri * OPRD
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 10:31 AM
To: Oregon Main Street program managers
<oms_managers at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
Subject: Re: [OMS_MANAGERS] New Preservation Toolkit Offers Aid to Owners of
Historic Buildings

This is a really terrific new toolkit that Restore Oregon developed! You can
hear a little more about it at the Building Revitalization: Formulating a
Strategy workshop in Astoria on September 15-16. Peggy Moretti is one of the
presenters at the workshop. A copy of the revised agenda is attached. We are
reaching close to capacity for the workshop. To ensure you have a space, we
encourage you to register at:

<http://www.eventbrite.com/e/oregon-main-street-workshop-evening-of-excellen
ce-celebration-tickets-26475474858?aff=utm_source%3Deb_email%26utm_medium%3D
email%26utm_campaign%3Dnew_event_email&utm_term=eventurl_text>
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/oregon-main-street-workshop-evening-of-excellenc
e-celebration-tickets-26475474858 

You can also use this link to register for the Evening of Excellence Awards
Celebration and dinner. The dinner is hosted by the Astoria Downtown
Historic District Association and catered by Fulio's - a thriving downtown
restaurant. The menu includes appetizers, a choice of vegetarian pasta or
pesto encrusted salmon, veggies, bread, salad, and blackberry cobbler.

Regards, Sheri

From: OMS_MANAGERS [mailto:oms_managers-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us]
On Behalf Of Peggy Moretti
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 2:18 PM
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Subject: [OMS_MANAGERS] New Preservation Toolkit Offers Aid to Owners of
Historic Buildings

Restore Oregon Offers Aid to Historic Building Owners with New Preservation
Toolkit

The enduring popularity and charm of older buildings - and the growing
recognition of their value to a community - means Restore Oregon, a
non-profit preservation advocacy organization, receives hundreds of calls
from all types of Oregonians. Calls come in daily from individuals, local
agencies, and organizations requesting help to preserve historic properties,
heritage barns, shuttered theaters, decommissioned schools, and just about
anything else that can be considered a historic place.

To better serve Oregonians trying to understand and navigate the often
daunting task of rehabilitating a historic structure for current use, and
figuring out how to pay for it, the non-profit recently created a
Preservation Toolkit.

The Preservation Toolkit offers a step-by-step framework to develop and
execute a Preservation Plan for a historic property so it can be viably,
sustainably reused. It's a valuable tool for individual property owners,
organizations from Main Street business associations to historical
societies, and government agencies working to revive a historic building.
And thanks to grant funding from the Oregon Cultural Trust, Pacific Power,
and the Oregon Community Foundation, it is available free of charge.

Individual modules tackle particular aspects of preservation planning in a
logical way:

*         Preservation Process Overview: a simple flowchart illustrating the
steps for a successful preservation project.

*         Orientation to Preservation & Adaptive Reuse: introductions to
terminology, standards, organizations, and the National Register.

*         Condition Assessment Checklist: a top-to-bottom checklist for
examining and documenting the current state of your property.

*         Creating a Viable Rehabilitation Plan: a guide to determining a
feasible new use for your property, and testing the economic dollars and
sense with financial pro forma templates.

*         Funding Sources & Incentives: bank loans, grants, tax credits -
what is available and the associated stipulations.

*         Working with the Right Preservation Professionals: assembling the
right team and understanding the role they play can make or break your
project.

*         Organizing & Building Community Support: tips on telling your
story and getting the community on board.

*         Maintenance Planning: what should be included in a maintenance
plan and how to approach it.

The Preservation Toolkit is an effort to address the enormous need for
preservation assistance and information across the state, and the fact that
there are few resources to meet it.  From assessing the condition of a
structure to developing a reuse strategy, understanding standards and
regulations to locating contractors qualified to do the work and finding the
money to pay for it, Restore Oregon's Preservation Toolkit provides the
roadmap.

It may be downloaded at www.RestoreOregon.org/preservation-toolkit
<http://www.RestoreOregon.org/preservation-toolkit> . 

Peggy Moretti

Executive Director

 <http://www.restoreoregon.org/> 

1130 SW Morrison St. | Suite 318 | Portland OR 97205

503 243-1923 main

503 946-6446 direct

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