{"id":221,"date":"2009-10-09T15:29:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T19:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2009-10-09T15:31:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T19:31:47","slug":"historic-preservation-economic-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Historic Preservation = Economic Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This<\/em> is one of the reasons I got involved with Historic Preservation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;\">The top priorities for economic development efforts               are creating jobs and increasing local household income. The               rehabilitation of older and historic buildings is particularly               potent in this regard. As a rule of thumb, new construction will               be half materials and half labor. Rehabilitation, on the other               hand, will be sixty to seventy percent labor with the balance               being materials. This labor intensity affects a local economy on               two levels. First, we buy an HVAC system from Ohio and lumber from               Idaho, but we buy the services of the plumber, the electrician,               and the carpenter from across the street. Further, once we hang               the drywall, the drywall doesn\u2019t spend any more money. But the               plumber gets a hair cut on the way home, buys groceries, and joins               the YMCA \u2013 each recirculating that paycheck within the               community.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>From a speech by Donovan Rypkema at the 2005 National Trust Conference<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the reasons I got involved with Historic Preservation&#8230; &#8220;The top priorities for economic development efforts are creating jobs and increasing local household income. The rehabilitation of older and historic buildings is particularly potent in this regard. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/?p=221\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}