Purpose, Audience, and Foundation

Purpose and Vision

• Provide information and support for individuals interested in adaptive reuse
• Protect and enhance community characte
• Encourage investment in underused properties
• Change the way individuals and municipalities look at aging buildings
• Guide municipalities to permit and promote adaptive reuse
• Present an evolving list of adaptive reuse examples for review and inspiration

Audience

This website is for developers, property owners, design professionals, community members, elected officials, municipal staff, planners, and business owners. Each has a role in ensuring that adaptive reuse contributes to the character of a community and that we are "saving the past for the future." John Rosecarns, Renewal Dynamics.

Foundation

The foundation for this website is Landscapes3, Chester County's Comprehensive Plan that establishes a vision for preservation and growth for the county and its 73 municipal partners. Specifically, to implement the APPRECIATE Goal through Recommendation 7: Promote adaptive reuse and compatible development in historic areas to preserve their vitality and diversity while respecting their historic sense of place.