The Economic Upside Of Historic Preservation

Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, Michigan are neighboring college towns, well, "university towns." This article isn't specifically about the universities, but is a nice exposition on the value, economically, of heritage preservation.

"I cannot identify a single example of a sustained success story in downtown revitalization where historic preservation wasn’t a key component of that strategy. Not a one," Rypkema says. "Conversely the examples of very expensive failures in downtown revitalization have nearly all had the destruction of historic buildings as a major element."