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2 LOCAL THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE SUNDAY May! 5 2005 LA has reuse tips to teach Oakland PRESERVATION Month in May con tinues with a special free open house today from 1 to 4 pm at four his toric house museums in Oak land On Monday May 23 the Landmarks Preservation Advi sory Board and the Oakland Heritage Alliance are cospon soring a lecture at City Hall on adaptive reuse of older build ings The lecture featuring Hamid Behdad Director of the Adaptive Reuse Program for the City of Los Angeles will be preceded by refreshments out side the city council chamber The program is free Known among local devel opers in Southern California as the Reuse Czar" Behdad oversees the various LA city departments that pro cess residential development projects involving historic properties In 1999 the City of Los Angeles adopted legisla tion to facilitate the conversion of its older buildings many economically distressed yet still historically significant to more productive uses This landmark legislation is credited with spawning a boom in downtown conversion of historic office buildings into lofts apartments condomi niums and hotels Behdad will be speaking on the estimated 10000 adaptive reuse units either completed or in the works since the program was initiated basic tenet of adaptivereuse is that it readies old buildings for new uses while I retaining their historic fea tures" said event organizerand Oakland Heritage Alliance board member Cynthia Shart zer bypasses the wasteful process of demolition and re construction thereby offering oil THE LAND MARK HOTEL OAKLAND seen here is a very good example of adaptive reuse STA ILE Annalee ALLEN LANDMARKS Substantial environmental benefits Adaptive reuse can have a major role to play in sustainable development by retaining the embodied energy of the original Current OHA President Naomi Schiff said seeking to find ways to reduce the sub stantial environmental social and economic costs of ever ex panding urban development local governments are turning to incentive programs that en courage developers in con verting existing structures to new uses have Invited our local sponsors to display examples of their recent adaptive reuse projects and these will be on display in city hall through the end of May We invite the public as well as our elected leaders to Join us in learning more about Los suc cesses" The program is being aired live on KTOP channel 10 The sponsors in clude BBI Construction Cali fornia Capital Group Komorous Towey Architects Madison inancial Group Mu rakamiNelson Architectural Corporation Pyatok Arch! tects and VBN Architects Perhaps one of the best known local examples of reuse is the conversion of the grand 1912 Hotel Oakland on 13th Street rehabilitated and seis mically strengthened in the 1980s to provide 315 apart ments for low income seniors Although the structure suf fered damage to its exterior fa cade during the Loma Prieta earthquake its status (it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places) fortunately qualified it for enough finan cial assistance to achieve full repairs say the files To learn more about the adaptive reuse program on May 23 contact the Oakland Heritage Alliance 763 9218 or log on to wwwoaklandherita georg The historic houses open today are the Pardee Home Museunr 672 11th Street the Camron Stanford House 1418s Lakeside Drive the Cohen Bray House 1440 29th Avenue and the Peralta House 2465 34th Ave or ad dltional Information call 444 2187 Visit our Web site: wwwnidonlinecom The Housing Strategies Symposium" is a community sensitive holistic approach to assisting persons: families and community groups achieve their housing and development goals Homebuyers potential homebuyers renters senior citizens persons with disabilities bankslenders small business owners corporations churches and community groups will be supplied with much needed information to overcome challenges typically faced by urban communities as it relates to housing access information and access to capital to move forward in a productive manner REE workshops (seating is limited register today!) 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