Preservation Plan for Philadelphia web site announced

A client, the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, has just launched their new web site www.preservephiladelphia.org. This web site goes along with the multi-year effort to prepare Philadelphia’s first ever, Preservation Plan.

The Preserve Philadelphia web site tells it best:

The Preservation Alliance has initiated a campaign to preserve the historic character of Philadelphia’s neighborhoods and their landmark buildings. The campaign invites all residents of Philadelphia to contribute to the creation of a Preservation Plan for Philadelphia and to support the first-ever citywide survey of historic resources. The first phase of the Preservation Plan is now underway; it has three components:

A strategic preservation plan based on public and professional input;
A statement of historic significance defining important themes in the history of the physical development of the city; and
A methodology for conducting a citywide survey using the latest in contemporary technology.

The web site contains all of the reports and materials developed as part of the Preservation Plan. My work for the Preservation Alliance was to facilitate a series of 14 focus groups of preservationists. A summary report on this work can be found on the new web site at http://www.preservephiladelphia.org/files/FOCUS_GROUP_FINAL_REPORT.pdf
Another series of focused conversations were concluded last month. Look for another summary report about the February 2009 follow up discussions with the same audience later this month