“Heritage Ohio announced its Top Preservation Opportunities List for 2008. The preservation & revitalization organization chose ten buildings located throughout the state. The ten brick & mortar opportunities represent a variety of building types and a variety of opportunities to investors and communities alike.
Heritage Ohio’s Top Preservation Opportunities List, in its second year, has partnered with the Durable Restoration Company, to provide the technical support communities may need in: prioritizing rehabilitation work; finding appropriate adaptive reuse options; or understanding how their historic assets contribute to the economic vitality of each individual community….Top Preservation Opportunities show the public that what may appear as a vacant building today, may be tomorrow’s hot spot: offering a location that may provide loft housing, the latest restaurant or retail establishment or a new center of commerce. Communities should look at their historic assets as “OPPORTUNITIES”; buildings that are under-utilized or await redevelopment can create destinations as opposed to the generic America of contemporary strip centers, shopping malls, and office parks….
The Top Ten Ohio Preservation Opportunities List includes: Elk’s Lodge—Wapakoneta; Fife & Bosworth commercial building—Wilmington; Bethany Hall at Otterbein—Lebanon; Fairborn Performing Arts Theater—Fairborn; Marsh Hotel—Van Wert; Longwood Manor—Macedonia; Eli Kinney House—Portsmouth; Keller Building—Sandusky; Town Hall—Edgerton; and the Seneca County Courthouse—Tiffin. Information about Ohio’s Top Preservation Opportunities will be available on Heritage Ohio’s Web site at: www.heritageohio.org and Durable Restoration’s web site at www.DurableRestoration.com….”
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