Sustainable Development & Restoration Business Conference This week I spoke with Rob Bailey, founder of The SourceNewport conference being held this year in Newport, Rhode Island October 21-23, 2009. This Summit brings together financial resources for historic real estate investment and projects, success stories of new businesses in historic communities and a discussion about how Hollywood depends on historic communities, focusing on design guidelines and business solutions for sustainable & historic development. More than the "green" marketing gimmick, sustainability is really a discussion about the future. The adaptive reuse of existing buildings is one of the easiest and most cost effective paths towards sustainability. To that end, SourceNewport is partnering this year with Sustainable Communities, Inc., and will be addressing the aspects of money and local policy. "Restoration of community has been the lifeblood of American tradition, and the secret formula for New England is the green economics of preservation and restoration", according to Bailey, this is why he launched the event in Newport. This week's real estate insight: Great old mills turned into fabulous live-work artist lofts, obsolete factories turned into shopping malls, defunct shopping malls turned into schools, old churches turned into condominiums, an old strip mall turned into a church. These are all examples of adaptive reuse, adapting and evolving existing buildings to suit present day needs. For more information, visit: www.sourcenewport.com. ?Source Newport 2009
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Sustainable Development & Restoration Business Conference This week I spoke with Rob Bailey, founder of The SourceNewport conference being held this year in Newport, Rhode Island October 21-23, 2009. This Summit brings together financial resources for historic real estate investment and projects, success stories of new businesses in historic communities and a discussion about how Hollywood depends on historic communities, focusing on design guidelines and business solutions for sustainable & historic development. More than the "green" marketing gimmick, sustainability is really a discussion about the future. The adaptive reuse of existing buildings is one of the easiest and most cost effective paths towards sustainability. To that end, SourceNewport is partnering this year with Sustainable Communities, Inc., and will be addressing the aspects of money and local policy. "Restoration of community has been the lifeblood of American tradition, and the secret formula for New England is the green economics of preservation and restoration", according to Bailey, this is why he launched the event in Newport. This week's real estate insight: Great old mills turned into fabulous live-work artist lofts, obsolete factories turned into shopping malls, defunct shopping malls turned into schools, old churches turned into condominiums, an old strip mall turned into a church. These are all examples of adaptive reuse, adapting and evolving existing buildings to suit present day needs. For more information, visit: www.sourcenewport.com. ?
