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Jobs, Business, and Community.” He said that preservation is about building communities, the relationships with people and the creation of jobs. One item that he pointed out from the booklet was that “In the past ten years, twenty small Virginia ‘Main Street’ communities with populations under 50,000 have seen over $54 million of private funds invested in the rehabilitation of over 1,600 buildings,” resulting in new jobs and new businesses.
He claimed that historic preservation visitors visit more places and spend over twice as much money as other visitors to Virginia. Also, property values have risen in areas that have been historically preserved, he said, and esti
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