Can Portsmouth Learn From Savannah, Largest National Historic Landmark District in the US?

Forget the pleasure of looking at pretty streets or the value of saving your history. Think money. In crude financial terms, protecting historic Savannah means caring for a profitable revenue-generating asset so it can be passed on, says Daniel Carey, the animated President and CEO of the Historic Savannah Foundation. http://www.myhsf.org/

Although Savannah has a mixed economy— military, manufacturing, tourism, government and private business-- tourism is a $2.1 billion annual industry for Savannah, Carey said. “So it’s in our own best interests to protect the Goose that laid the Golden Egg. It’s just that simple. Anybody who says that’s complicated is out of bounds. If it gets out of balance, you choke the Goose-- you get no more Golden Egg-- and the $2.1 billion industry will go somewhere else that is authentic.”

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