Archives for "October, 2010"
Dinner and a Movie: The Rebirth of Knoxville’s 500 Block of Gay Street
This is the latest in a series of posts celebrating the 10th anniversary of the National Trust Community Investment Corporation (NTCIC) by sharing some of its biggest successes. Written by Kim Trent In January of 2005, it looked like five historic buildings in the 500 block of Gay Street in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, would be lost. [...]
A Very Happy Anniversary
Written by Pat Lally When Emily Post penned her first etiquette book in 1922, she offered a guide to appropriate anniversary gifts by year. This year we’re celebrating the National Trust Community Investment Corporation’s (NTCIC) decade-long effort to reinvest in America’s historic neighborhoods and my work in Congress has been taken to a whole new level [...]
10/7/2010: John Leith-Tetrault's keynote presentation for the 2010 East Tennessee Preservation Conference
The Federal Historic Tax Credit: Economic Track Record and Legislative Future Click here to access the presentation -
Thinking Outside the Box: An Artful Adaptive Use Project in Hudson Valley
This is the latest in a series of posts celebrating the 10th anniversary of the National Trust Community Investment Corporation (NTCIC) by sharing some of its biggest successes. Written by Erica Stewart When then-Dia Art Foundation director Michael Govan first laid eyes on the vacant Nabisco box making factory, he didn’t just see 292,000 square feet [...]
Durham’s Historic Tobacco Buildings Ignite Bull City’s Growth for the Second Time
Written by Erica Stewart This week’s journey through NTCIC’s ten years of historic tax credit investing runs through the city of Durham, North Carolina, a city that has been dominated by the tobacco industry—either by its boom or its bust—for over 140 years. Although now known as “the City of Medicine,” there is no mistaking Durham’s [...]