Preservation Planning Associates

Imagine your own custom-designed team of qualified and enthusiastic professionals helping you protect, preserve, promote and sustain your community's historic legacy!  

We believe in the power of partnerships in historic preservation. We work with governments and nonprofits, individuals and businesses to help you breathe life and jobs into your character-defining historic buildings, downtowns, older neighborhoods and cultural landscapes.  It's about legacy.  It's about sustaining communities through heritage.  It's about our future. 

"The conference was great! Thanks, Roxanne, not only for what you do for our downtowns, but how you do it – with humor, warmth and grace."

-Denis Lachman, Lachman Architects and Planners

"You did such a fantastic job! The whole class was very energized and motivated by your presentation. Could I ask you to put the first Thursday in May on your calendar for next year?"

-Bill Hall, Coordinator, Portland (ME) Historic Docents training program

Roxanne Eflin is working as Program Manager with the Maine Downtown Center to help revitalize downtowns statewide!  She is also an active member of the Maine Downtown Coalition.

Worth the investment:

2010 National Main Streets Conference: The Power of Main Street - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, May 2-5, 2010 

2010 biennial National Commission Forum hosted by the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions in historic Grand Rapids, Michigan, July 29-August 1, 2010 

Learn about CAMP (Commission Assistance Mentoring Program) - the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions' fun and effective national training program for preservation commissions.