Safeguarded Cultural Heritage Socio-Economic Impact of Cultural Heritage Assets
Economic Development Community Development
Heritage Conservation Is the single form of Economic Development that is simultaneously Community (Social) Development
The Big 5 Major Measusrables of the Economic Impact of Heritage Conservation Job Creation and Household Income Center City Revitalization Heritage Tourism Impact on Property Values of Local Historic Districts Small Business Incubation
Jobs and Household Income
Materials Labor Intensity in Historic Preservation New Construction Rehabilitation Labor
NORWAY Historic Rehabilitation 16.5% more jobs than New Construction
Center City Revitalization
$23.3 Billion invested in Physical Improvements 67,000 Net New Businesses 308,370 Net New Jobs 107,179 Building Rehabilitation & Construction Projects Cost per Job Created -- $2,504 Leverage of Public Funds -- $26.67 to $1.00 Preservation Based Economic Development Main Street Over the past 25 years in Main Street Communities
Heritage Tourism
In Virginia Heritage Visitors: Stay Longer Visit twice as many places Spend 2 ½ Times as much money per trip Than do non-heritage visitors
Impact of Historic Districts on Property Values
51.1% 51.9%54.2% 62.8% 66.0% 0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% Non-Historic District Newtown Historic District Beverley Historic District Gospel Hill Historic District Stuart Historic District Staunton, Virginia
Small Business Incubation
Globalization
Heritage Conservation as Public Policy
Import Substitution
Compatibility with Modernization
Targeted Areas
Geographically Dispersed
Range of Project Scales
Counter-Cyclical
Incremental Change
The preservation movement has one great curiosity. There is never retrospective controversy or regret. Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact. John Kenneth Galbraith
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