List of sites administered by the Connecticut State Historic Preservation Office

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Hans thank you very much and thank you all. I am so stunned at the size of the audience that OU and the Institute for Quality Communities has garnered here so congratulations to all of you. and uh... participants and you for coming i'm gonna talk to my little niche of the world about economics and historic preservation but that's not usually how we've thought about historic preservation people become preservation advocates for reasons for cultural reasons or educational reasons are social reasons or aesthetic reasons and many other of the values that our historic resources have but in more recent years and then an expectation that in fact preservation has to demonstrate an economic value as well What I'm going to give you this morning is really how that takes place and some factoids from a dozen or so studies around the country in different areas of economic impact of historic preservation and while there's lots of them the kind of big measurables are these the jobs household income created simply by the process of rehabilitating historic buildings the impact of historic districts on property values the incremental difference of heritage tourism over tourism in general environmental impact-a new study area in historic preservation the social impacts the role of historic preservation in downtown revitalization and then this broad issue of economic competitiveness I'll start with jobs there is has been in tax law in the u_s_ class it's a nineteen seventy six in all consump over the years since that but there's been a federal rehabilitation tax-credit program uh... reward for appropriately rehabilitating start buildings and over that thirty-year period bloomberg thirty-year period between nineteen seventy eight and two thousand eleven that has cost the taxpayers through what's called up a tax expenditures cost about nineteen billion dollars in in credits have been giving out uh... to people who've done start preservation projects those projects however have been responsible for the creation of two point two million dollar jobs and if you take the first number in divided by the second cost per job eighty-nine dollars stimulus program had to have a republicans were wrong to sing we didn't have it democrats were wrong but they spend it on but using the white house is numbers not make it builds on a mini bonds eight hundred seventy eight billion dollars so those of you who are in graduate school today he will be spending the rest of your lifetime paying off the bales of that stimulus program right or wrong card jobs identified by the white house as having been saved or created three point six million cost per job two hundred forty four thousand dollars i want one of those jobs so where is the effective use of scarce resources it's first how did the list cannot rutgers university is done the analysis of this over over time and he starts out with that said already this cost the taxpayers nineteen point two billion dollars to have people fiction uphold buildings but that program generated revenues backed into the federal government of twenty four point four billion dollars how many federal government programs in fact generate more revenue for the federal government that cost the federal government the answer to that question is damn few and this is one of them uh... reader study a couple years ago and in georgia about how historic preservation activity in georgia has created jobs but also how measures uh... against other kinds of economic activity in the state of georgia our georgia friends and taxpayers in georgia just spend a few years ago a couple silly in dollars are tracking an automobile manufacturer fine they can do it's their money but a million dollars worth of automobile production in the state of georgia creates three-and-a-half jobs in the city of georgia air transportation in you'd had to fight through valente airport where the disease in the world but a million dollars worth of air transportation expenditures shows plane tickets million dollars of those creates eight point seven jobs in the state of georgia rehabilitate historic buildings in the state of georgia for a million dollars what does that create eighteen point one where is the real economic development we heard uh... we heard about property values immunity going to come back to that but the second broad area of preservation economic impact is the role of local historic districts on property values and uh... dubuque ia three one of the cutting edge cds in terms of comprehensive sustainable development in america looked a few years ago a property values historic rehabilitation property values have fifty one percent the proper historic properties next door to those projects up and uh... nine and a half percent all the properties went up five percent but they're not historic properties in downtown debut pop three and a half percent great study done by it connected modeling firm again a philadelphia look at the properties in national register districts in the state of fill in the city of philadelphia over thirty year period and found that properties with in national register of historic districts oak value as a whole in twelve at about fourteen point three percent but for those few local districts dorm regulated that has rules and regulations which the national restless tricks do not in fact man at the place premium of twenty two point five percent i know some of you probly service staff or on members of local preservation commissions and i hate to break your heart people are not paying a premium for the right to go on here before you go she roofie preservation commission they're paying the premium for the confidence that the lunatic across the street can't be doing something to his house is going to have an adverse impact on your house i'd also point out some great about and learned a lot in chris's piece intention and and safely say these great to neighborhoods on the carpet reading closely in neighborhoods one columbus one inventor they're creating a price premium he didn't mention possible for stored neighborhoods snot mexican that want to talk about walkable urban places where that's already there in fact isn't historic neighborhoods uh... one of the great statesman from fact another active norman a star john build room with university of lovell look at all of the neighborhoods in the city in the uh... c_d_ of mobile and look at on linear regression basis so he's talking about all variables weather was only one variable x and that was was it u_n_ or was it not been in local historic district and what he found his those that work in the local store districts all for a premium between fifty nine sixty seven thousand dollars and were went up uh... appreciated twenty one percent more than the rest of the market again it's a little bit convert to add you might hear save alters more regulations that's going to adversely affect property back in fact study after study after study in all places different methodologies all of the country mechanistic other way around is that create protection of the context that's creating the economic premium but of course it was our good economic fears what about boundaries we've been in real estate economic chaos is two thousand seven so student might at the end look at comparable neighborhoods in the city of philadelphia over a twelve-month period in the midst of this real estate chiapas took six historic districts if you look at comparable neighborhoods usually side by side but that were not local historic districts similar building stock similar economics similar demographics and what did what did she learned that in fact the foreclosure rate was half in the local store to fix but it was in the comparable neighborhoods now i'd like to say well ask his people live in stored neighborhoods are never lose their jobs or get a divorce you get financial trouble that's not yet issue is if i get in financial trouble because the market is more stable i can get redo that house before it goes into foreclosure well you graduate students sometimes think that the professors of hearing teach you a tape and i learned more from ice cubes and ever learn from each and i like this methodology so much we did it took at the connecticut where we did a study of local story districts in four cities around and found virtually the same answer that in some of these are very rich places some of those are real struggling places but that the rate of foreclosure in local historic districts was passed of what it was in the rest the community the third area the role of historic preservation in heritage tourism now my goal in life disturb break this automatic assumption of if you're talking about historic preservation economic and must be talking about heritage tourism well there's lots of contributors on the net but it does have a had visitors stay longer they visit more places and they spend more per day caricatures and other kinds of tourists uh... international visitors coming to the u_s_ two point six million more went to a historic place in my cat disneyland kind of places four times as many went to historic place and went to a casino fourteen times more people which one is toward international visitors what when story place to play golf in georgia by the study that just eaten jordy huge tourism industry but just because there are two jb abortion of the poorest of the hair of the tourism industry in georgia is a hundred seventeen thousand dot dot jobs and two hundred four a million dollars in salaries and wages civil war battlefields founded talking people are going to battlefield not doing too much to spend money on there but they're having a huge impact and those are local economies twenty one million state taxes and twelve million in in local revenues five dollars visitors uh... per visitor goes to the state tax returns one we have state government struggling on how to pay the bills we had a look at what generates those in heritage tourism is one of those then this newer area ob gyn research of that connection between historic buildings and the environment i think there's a building in downtown hartford connecticut locates nice building for ken asylum street and a developer all of the building and he went and applied for demolition permit and the cd turned him down he said okay im gonna film i know that you are going to give the stupid building away to somebody who's gonna create low-income housing and see how you like and what to poor people in your sorely needed gave it to a enlightened non-profit low-income housing developer they took in the we develop this uh... property dot historically ability to tax credits also about low-income housing tax credits also by the way dot leed certification and uh... it is a hundred percent four it's about half market in half low-income undistinguished one units uh... and both list have waiting lists but we said already forget that what if the city of said go ahead turn ons can't build what would betterment well energy that's already into that building embodied energy six hundred sixteen thousand gallons of gasoline ten thousand dollar gallons of gasoline just the whole the crap away to the landfill toward distant debris from tearing down that one building would have been equivalent the twenty one days of all the trash generated by all the people who live in hartford connecticut milo favorite factorial we all say those aluminum com kenyans because the environmentalists it's good for the environment to do it the debris that bodied energy the for the weight of that one building what had gone landfill impact on the last twenty one million of those olympians at those good citizens of hartford you sort of every friday excellent studied by environmental when uh... investment analyst environmental uh... uh... economist in state in maryland look at them relative difference between infrastructure costs for the public sector in terms of redeveloping historic buildings are building are at the age fifty two eighty percent out cheaper infrastructure cost that tea party and the sierra club ought to be leading the historic preservation parade how the u_s_ uh... national trust has set up a marine lab to kind of look systematically on peer reviewed here uh... engineering basis at is the environmental impact of using those historic buildings but the fungus to put all the water list when it's a score panels who want to on some new razzle-dazzle gold star building but in fact he takes tend to eighty years uh... energy cvs commit energy-efficient new building to make up for the negative climate uh... i'll change impact of the construction as compared to keeping those uh... historic bill is a place in fact almost every category a building reused there's environmental savings over razzle-dazzle new reduce more things uh... mayor bloomberg in new york decided he really wanted to make a new york in energy efficiency and so they commissioned in on it and files of the buildings in new york this is not a preservation initiative this was how do we say energy in fact where when the buildings with the greatest energy efficiency there was a some rows of as a new building infected with the buildings built a prior to nineteen thirty and then they use pata new or bob metrics and energy star system office bill is the same results the one in fact the highest scores were not the new razzle-dazzle stuff it was the pre nineteen thirty buildings in new york but by the way some of you think they think that this is a good idea in some kind of absurd obsession of density at all costs saving four inches a breakfast one away the building like keepin' the halloween mask and throwing away the person assignments it has a negative environmental impact it has a negative number economic benefits i talk about his true in this and not be mad dictionary written by solv adored ollie on drugs is this constitute historic preservation social impact sometimes we think about a story preservationists are you know sitting next to bridge dead white guys in that's fine but in fact the indian art rhode island under the state tax credit they're creating they were creating low-income housing uh... it historic buildings when we look in connecticut that ninety-five percent of the uh... tax-credit projects weren't in the rich neighborhoods in suburban new york connecticut in fact they were neighborhoods have been dining for investment sometimes for two and three generations in fact ninety five percent appall of the was in areas are very modest a household incomes and then this issue about downtown revitalization and of course many of you are from uh... hoping main street communities in oklahoma has one of the great mainstream programs in america but on a national level over the last thirty one years in those main street communities around the country fifty six billion dollars invest in physical improvements a hundred and ten thousand net new businesses four hundred seventy five thousand net new jobs two hundred thirty six building rebuilt asian projects cost per job created about twenty four hundred dollars and the leverage nationally of that program uh... hockey team to one this is placed management place management was happening uh... you need to be communities now for thirty years before anybody else decided that was a different things oklahoma state just a few years ago about oklahoma main street programs created twenty four and a half hours in jobs a one-and-a-half percent of the whole old workforce non spotted workforce in the state is from those who don't couple dozen uh... downtown main street programs in oklahoma you know it's going to be a long time before hooker oklahoma get two hundred thirty thousand people support walkable living area historic downtowns historic commercial districts historic neighborhoods art walkable denial just finishing a study in iowa by degree program they've had their main street program for him uh... since nineteen eighty six and they've been very diligent about keeping our records and what they find is that just in that new businesses in those times not all the best fixed not the whole town just the net new businesses in those main street communities in fact last year generated forty three million dollars in state sales tax for a program costs about eight hundred thousand dollars a year so fifty times more revenue is coming from those new businesses in those main street communities this process take baths in taxpayers' money added that in twenty five of them twenty five slash twenty six years has been increase in net new jobs was part of a farm crisis and three recessions over that time period and every year they've added net new businesses then this issue about economic competitors john o'brien was for years director of the a direct foreign investment solicitation for fire and in spite of its option down to the recent ural crisis uh... dublin has been extraordinary success story this is john's map of these international high tech cutting-edge twenty-first century knowledge work reprieve class kinda businesses that have migrated to here's why john says it what's he's not being start preservation but he said first of all they came because of the workers we had the workers to jobs follow the workers but the jobs called the workers because the workers with their first and they went their first because the quality of life that dublin providing and that the historic context of dublin was a huge component about partylite characteristic uh... some of these great international high tech firms are even start building summer cross the street some of the edge that matter they went there to get the workers and the what workers went their own exactly chris was talking about about the quality that that place providing uh... earlier this year are at least late last year the world bank the world bank the world bank uh... issued a new book called the economics of uniqueness recognizing the role called historic preservation in creating economies and i don't know how many of you watch the world bank over the years but when they have moved to who appointed a where they say this is a center economic development strategy lots and lots of happen with that i'll shut up thank you all very much