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. 

Come home to downtown - where heritage and hearts meld.

What We Do

Roxanne Eflin, Owner of Preservation Planning Associates, is a skilled leader, collaborator and public speaker in historic preservation, downtown revitalization, community planning, heritage tourism, and fund raising.  She and her associates work to empower community leaders and citizen volunteers with new understanding, appreciation, skills and legislative tools to protect and preserve the essential assets that define your historic sense of place – and provide the critical market edge in economic development and greener communities  Read on and learn more...

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

What's New?

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 - click to learn about the Communities for Maine's Future Act - LD775. It's all about jobs, the economy and recycling historic buildings and embodied energy. This is the perfect legislation for RIGHT NOW.  Get involved and join the Downtown Coalition!

Lean how Maine's State Historic Tax Credits can work for YOU - prepared by PPA colleague Amy Cole Ives

Visit Roxanne's blog at http"//roxanneeflin@wordpress.com.