Preservation Planning Associates

We custom design our services to meet your needs.

Roxanne Eflin and her colleagues at Preservation Planning Associates are skilled leaders, collaborators and public speakers in historic preservation, downtown revitalization, community planning, heritage tourism, and fund raising.  They 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...

We specialize in the following services:

Education, Training and Board Development coaching:

• Preservation Education - From "Nuts and Bolts 101" to complex topics, and from students/teachers to adult learners, including specialized historic district commission training
• Public speaking (all size groups and situations) and facilitation for workshops, charrettes and conferences
• Board development - getting right to the heart of possibilities through solid organization, must-know skills, relationship building, fund raising, courage, compassion and fun

Resource Protection:

• Historic resource surveys - Your inventory is the first step in understanding what to preserve and how.
• Preservation Easements - Highly effective private protection tools, often in combination or side-by-side with conservation easements.
• Design - From facades to additions and infill development, sympathetic and appropriate design solutions are critically important to protect historic resources and their context.
• Master Planning, Building Condition Assessments and Historic Structure Reports - Team members include highly respected professionals in the fields of community planning, architecture, restoration, engineering and construction.
• Downtown Revitalization - Utilizing the tried and true 4-point approach developed by the National Main Street Center and promoted statewide in Maine by the Maine Downtown Center. 

 Advocacy:

• Legislation - Comprehensive planning, preservation ordinances, demolition delay ordinances and interim protection tools, zoning incentives, design guidelines and much more.
• Community Advocacy - Inspiring and guiding local leaders to effective outreach and action appropriate in any situation.

Promotion, Marketing and Public Relations: 

• These aspects of a solid preservation program are often overlooked and underappreciated. Historic preservation is largely about positive change and new found pride in sense of place.  The greater the support, the more effective the program.
• Writing, writing, writing!  From press releases to technical reports, and travel writing stories to editing - whatever your writing needs, we will help you accomplish your goal
• Fund Raising:  It's all about relationships and knowing how to ask for abundance. 

Roxanne writes:

We designed this compelling logo and the marketing materials necessary to help the Friends of the AMH achieve their restoration goals - a remarkable success story in the works. 

 "Thank you for your creativity and guidance in the development of our capital campaign brochure for the Committee To Restore The Abyssinian Meeting House. Your experience and insight made a difficult project really come together both in the design and in bringing in all the right people to finish the project. We have a brochure that we can all be proud to share."

-David Paul, Treasurer, Committee to Restore the Abyssinian, Portland, Maine

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