Summer 2008 Update: MacRostie Historic Advisors

New Staff: MacRostie Historic Advisors (MHA) is pleased to welcome two new employees.

Emily Ramsey is an Associate in our Chicago office where she prepares state and federal historic rehabilitation tax credit applications, National Register nominations, and landmark designation reports. Prior to joining MHA, Emily served as Assistant Director for the Historic Chicago Bungalow Association, a City of Chicago initiative dedicated to preserving the city’s unique housing stock. While at the HCBA, she directed a program that provided technical assistance to communities seeking to list their neighborhoods on the National Register and administered financial incentive programs providing grants to homeowners completing energy efficient rehabilitation projects. Previously, Emily worked as an independent preservation consultant in Charlotte, North Carolina where she worked with the local preservation commission to prepare landmark designation reports on a wide variety of historic resources. Emily holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a Master of Arts degree in Historic Preservation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Mackenzie Dickey, a Junior Associate, has joined our Boston office where she assists in the preparation of state and federal historic rehabilitation tax credit applications. Concurrently, Mackenzie is pursuing a Master of Arts degree in Preservation Studies from Boston University to be completed in the spring of 2009. As part of her coursework, Mackenzie helped complete a historic rehabilitation tax credit application for a mill complex in North Andover, Massachusetts and researched architectural development patterns on the North Slope of Boston’s Beacon Hill. Mackenzie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

New Offices: A reminder that MHA’s Boston and Chicago offices recently relocated and expanded. Updated contact information for the offices can be found at the bottom of this page.

What We’re Working On:

From our Washington, DC office, we are servicing:

Rehabilitation of over two hundred units of military housing within the Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii as part of a public/private initiative to upgrade housing for military families nationwide;
Reuse of the former Occoquan Workhouse and Reformatory complex in suburban Washington, D.C. by the Lorton Arts Foundation as artist studios and performance space.

In Boston, we are consulting on:

Conversion of the 1928 American Can Company complex in Jersey City, New Jersey for mixed use. The million square foot complex will be developed in phases to ultimately house 600 apartment units and retail uses;
Utilizing state and federal historic tax credits for rehabilitation of the Bourne Mill, a 19th century granite textile mill in Tiverton, Rhode Island for 176 apartment units.

Our Chicago office is providing historic tax credit consulting services for:

Reuse of the 1910 Wahkonsa Hotel in Fort Dodge, Iowa for affordable housing, including units for low-income senior citizens and disabled people;
Conversion of the former bottling plant of the Jacob Schmidt Brewing Company in St. Paul, Minnesota for residential use.