Preserving New York's Industrial Past By Re-using Manufacturing Buildings

This landed in my mailbox from the Municipal Art Society. This program looks amazing. Check out the info below.

Upcoming Program on Adaptive Reuse

A Second (and Green) Career for Industrial Buildings New York City was once the nation’s power house for manufacturing, and many of the buildings and factories that fueled that industry remain. Preserving these buildings and using them to foster green-collar industries or adapting them to new housing, cultural, and retail uses is the most sustainable action New York could take. This program will explore two approaches to preserving industrial buildings: keeping them for manufacturing uses (which also means retaining good-paying jobs) or adapting these buildings to new uses. Panelists include Andrew Kimball, president & chief operating officer of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, home to traditional maritime uses and new green jobs, Robert Powers, preservation consultant on the tax-certified rehabilitation of the Austin-Nichols Warehouse, Norma Barbacci of the World Monuments Fund, with news of imaginative projects from Latin America, and Lisa Kersavage, MAS director of advocacy and policy. Moderated by Mary Habstritt, president of the Society for Industrial Archaeology. Recycling New York’s Industrial Past: Inspiration From Home and Abroad Wednesday, October 22, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Reception to follow. $15, $12 MAS members/students. Purchase tickets online or call 212-935-2075.

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