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2017 Awards for Excellence- Location Update
LOCATION UPDATE- The Legislative session will continue through the weekend, so the Awards Ceremony will be at the Historic Fire Station No. 2, our backup location.
Save the Date for the 2017 KPA Conference
The 2017 KPA Conference will be held in Wichita on September 28-29. Registration and details to follow.
2017 Annual Meeting and Awards for Excellence
Please join us on May 19, 2017, for the KPA Annual Meeting and Awards for Excellence in Topeka. A reception will follow the awards. RSVP here.
Support the Kansas Historic Tax Credit
Since its inception in 2001, the Kansas Historic Tax Credit Program has created 9,879 new jobs and $715 million in economic output. The Kansas Historic Tax Credit, along with the Federal Historic Tax Credit, are threatened this session as legislators in the Senate and the House as well as the Kansas State Legislature work to overcome budget shortfalls and establish widespread tax reform policies.
KPA has partnered with Friends of Historic Preservation in order to lobby Kansas Legislators and garner their support for the Kansas Historic Tax Credit Program. Below are a few projects that utilized the Kansas Historic Tax Credit Program with facts about their economic benefits. In addition, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has great information on state tax credit programs along with links to advocacy tools.
Please take a moment to contact (or even meet) your elected officials to discuss these issues.
2016 Kansas Preservation Conference, September 28th and 29th, Abilene, KS
The 2016 Kansas Preservation Conference:The Preservation Trail will be September 28th and 29th, Abilene, KS this year. Keynote speaker Donovan Rypkema will speak on Wednesday September 28th.
Rypkema is a Preservation Economist, and is principal of Place Economics, a Washington, D.C.-based real estate and economic development-consulting firm. The firm specializes in services to public and non-profit sector clients who are dealing with downtown and neighborhood commercial district revitalization and the reuse of historic structures. He is the author of numerous articles and publications as well as a book, The Economics of Historic Preservation: A Community Leader’s Guide which has been translated into Russian and Korean.
Training Sessions for Thursday September 29th include:
-Updates on Historic Preservation Issues in Kansas
-Historic Structure Reports
-Historic Surveys
-Opera Houses of Kansas
-The Preservation Trail
-Interactive Q&A Session
Sessions and start times can be found here: 2016-kansas-preservation-conf
See you there!
Conference program can be found here