Marion has $15,000 for a survey of buildings for possible inclusion in an expansion of its historic district. The money is a grant from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources to be matched by $15,000 from the town.
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Historic district designations provide their included landowners eligibility for tax credits and other incentive encouraging rehabilitation and preservation of the buildings.
In June Ken Heath, Marion town council member and executive director of the Marion Downtown Revitalization, told the council he had submitted an application for VDHR grant funds to extend the historic district’s boundaries. The extension would add 297 additional structures to the historic designation, especially commercial and governmental buildings, he said.
The owners of individually listed properties or those listed as “contributing” to a historic district have the potential to leverage state and federal rehabilitation tax-credit incentives, said Randy Jones, a publicist with VDHR. These incentives, offering opportunities for property owners, developers and investors, boost community redevelopment and revitalization.
Jones said the architectural survey will consider an estimated 200 buildings adjacent to the current Marion Historic District in the expansion of the historic district.
Susan E. Smead, VDHR survey program manager, said Wednesday the actual properties and boundaries associated with the historic district are variables to be determined.
“The agreement with the Town of Marion is to survey or resurvey a minimum of 200 buildings in the historic district,” Smead said. “This number was derived from consultation with the town contacts and field checking by DHR’s Roanoke Regional Office staff. The proposed historic district boundaries will be refined by checking them with windshield survey, once the contractor is on board, and further defined as architectural survey progresses. And it’s expected that not every property previously surveyed in the historic district will require resurvey.”
The current Marion Historic District is bounded by Main, Cherry, Strother, Lee, North College and College streets.
Heath said Wednesday the extra buildings include “all of the state hospital and grounds, plus several residential structures that may or may not benefit from the tax credits due to the amount of investment that would be required to make it work.”
The survey will in fact examine all the structures in the proposed expanded district, Heath said, but “not all of them will qualify, just like several inside the current district didn’t make it last time.” "
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