ABOUT RENEW TAMPA
What’s the greenest approach to renovating your bungalow?
How can you incorporate solar technology in restoring a cigar factory? Where are your financial opportunities in renewing a historic downtown property?
All of these questions and more will be explored during a weekend-long conference—RENEW TAMPA Bay: Framing A Greener Architectural Heritage—organized by the Tampa Chapter of the American Institute of Architects’ Architectural Heritage Committee and partner organizations.
The weekend—part of Florida Heritage Month and the local, annual Florida Heritage CELEBRAT!ON—will explore the intersection of architectural heritage, green technology, and building restoration. It will include a comprehensive, practical program of educational lectures, how-to workshops, industry exhibitors, and historic neighborhood tours—all grounded in promoting good stewardship of historic structures, today and tomorrow.
In Ybor City’s historic Centro Asturiano community center, home owners, architects, green-conscious builders, cultural historians, real estate developers, and community visionaries will gather. Together they will learn how to formulate plans for maintaining historic homes, discover collaborative strategies for preserving landmark buildings, and explore environmentally-sound technologies for making our community greener. The conference will also include exhibitors and offer valuable info about local resources, both public and private, that can help homeowners, developers, and city officials achieve their goals.
Framed by a yesterday-today-tomorrow philosophy, the conference will challenge participants to shape tomorrow’s ideal built environment through architectural preservation and design that is environmentally sensitive.
As one community leader observed, ”From the West Tampa Armory to a Seminole Heights bungalow to the downtown
federal courthouse…I want to feel that homeowners, developers, preservationists, and greens are dialoguing, learning, and collaborating. This conference is a step toward renewing the region!”