Stacking Incentives
in Kankakee, Illinois

We are excited to share this guest commentary from David Baron, Marketing Committee Chair for the Kankakee Development Corporation. With a historic urban core only blocks from prime riverfront land, Downtown Kankakee, Illinois is poised for

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A Tailored Strategy

Every Main Street community has a unique story to tell. No two communities have the same built environment, opportunities, or challenges. Tailoring a strategy for preservation planning will help your community convey-- and capitalize-- on

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Integrity Revealed

A thoughtful re-examination of buildings in an existing historic district can identify resources that may previously have been overlooked as non-contributing. While improvements cannot add integrity to a building, reversing non-historic alterations can reveal integrity

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Revisit Historic Status

Most of downtown Denison, Texas forms a historic district, but the National Register nomination prepared in 1983 did not specify which properties were contributing resources. This lack of clarity became problematic after passage of the

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Involve Local Stakeholders

Rosin Preservation prepared a National Register nomination for a historic district that includes 59 buildings in the commercial core of downtown Altus, in southwest Oklahoma. Because the project was initiated by a developer pursuing historic tax

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Develop a Baseline: Survey

Rosin Preservation completed a historic resources survey of Westport, Kansas City’s oldest extant neighborhood. Settled as an outfitting stop on the Westward Trails, the area has multiple, individually-listed properties and is locally acknowledged and appreciated