Moderator: Victoria T. Jacobson, AIA, National Park Service, Santa Fe, N.Mex.
Bruce D. Judd, FAIA, Architectural Resources Group, San Francisco
Sharon Park, FAIA, National Park Service, Washington, D.C.

      Established in 1975, the National Park Service Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program is still one of the federal government’s most successful community revitalization programs, providing 20 percent tax credits for the rehabilitation of National Register income-producing properties. With more than $33 billion of private-sector investment, this program has saved more than 32,000 National Register properties in commercial use and helped provide economic rejuvenation of older neighborhoods.

Learning objectives:

• Develop options for identifying and encouraging rehabilitation projects and revitalizing communities, and providing them the benefits the tax credit programs offer
• Discuss examples of actual projects and what kinds of treatments disqualify projects under these federal programs as well as those that are successful and earn their clients' tax credits
• Analyze projects of the more recent past that are often overlooked but may be certifiable and eligible for these tax incentive programs.