National Preservation Partners Network
2025 Spring Retreat
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April 28-30, 2025
Join us in Asheville, North Carolina, for our 2025 Partners Spring Retreat! NPPN members will gather for meetings, tours, and networking April 28-30, 2025. You will leave inspired and energized to save more places in your community. The 2025 Partners Spring Retreat is presented in partnership with The Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County and sponsored by GBX Group. Heritage Consulting Group, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Spring Retreat Registration:
$250 for NPPN Members
$300 for non NPPN Members
$450 for NPPN Spring Retreat (April 28 – 30) AND National HPRP Summit (April 30 – May 2)
Early Bird Registration Deadline: April 14th
Learn more about the Historic Properties Redevelopment Programs (HPRP) Summit HERE.
Register for the NPPN Spring Retreat and/or National HPRP Summit
Conference Hotel: Kimpton Hotel Arras
$149 / Night – Available April 27 – May 3
Book Your Hotel Room Here by April 8.
Not a member yet? Learn more about the benefits of NPPN membership and how your organization can become a NPPN member HERE.
NPPN Spring Retreat Schedule*
Sunday – April 27
6:00 p.m. – Dinner Meet-Up for Attendees Arriving Sunday
Location to be announced soon.
Monday – April 28
The Foundry Hotel – Savoy Ballroom
51 South Market Street
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Check In and Continental Breakfast
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 p.m.
Welcome and Introductions
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Asheville: Hurricane Helene and Climate Change – Carl Schreck – North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies
11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Lunch Program – Planning Ahead for a Natural Disaster
Annie Rubel – Heritage Emergency Management
12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Panel: The Local Preservation Response to Hurricane Helene
- Jessie Landl – Executive Director – Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County
- Jack Thomson – Preservation North Carolina – Western Office Regional Director
1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
State Resources for Disaster Planning and Response
- Ramona Bartos – Administrator and Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer – North Carolina SHPO
- Kristi Brantley – Local Preservation Commission/CLG Coordinator – North Carolina SHPO
2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Break
2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Preserving the Past, Adapting for the Future: Resiliency and Recovery in U.S. Historic Preservation
- Seri Worden, Senior Director of Preservation for the National Trust for Historic Preservation
3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
LA’s Wildfires: Redefining Heritage and Preservation in the Wake of Loss
- Adrian Scott Fine, President & CEO of the Los Angeles Conservancy
5:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Opening Reception at The Bull and Beggar and Trolley Tour of the Rivers Arts District
7:30 p.m.
Dinner on Your Own
Tuesday – April 29
The Manor Inn – 265 Charlotte Street
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast & Gathering
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
National Preservation Partners Network Annual Meeting
- Partner Reports and Introductions
- Election of Board of Directors & Officers
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Three-Minute Success Stories
- Poquessing Trail of History Project – Paul Steinke, Executive Director of the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia
- Preserving African American Cemeteries in Pennsylvania – Mindy Crawford, Executive Director of Preservation Pennsylvania
- To Be Announced
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Breakout Groups
- Local Organizations, Statewide Organizations, Big Cities
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch Program – Organization Health Workshop: Looking Inward
- Kimberlee Schumacher, Executive Director of the Boston Preservation Alliance
How to Assess and Improve the Health of Your Organization — In this interactive workshop, we will discuss the key measures of organizational health and impact, how to measure them, and how to create a simple roadmap for improved organizational health and impact.
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Walking Tour of Albemarle Park Neighborhood
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Preserving the Preservationist in the Wake of Disasters
– Jessie Landl, Executive Director of the Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County
– Danielle Del Sol, Executive Director of the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans
– Adrian Scott Fine, President & CEO of the Los Angeles Conservancy
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Networking Break
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Tour Biltmore Industries and Explore Grove Park Inn
4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Happy Hour at Grove Park Inn (cash bar)
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Trolley Available to Downtown
6:30 p.m.
Dinner on Your Own
Wednesday – April 30
Basilica of St. Lawrence – 97 Haywood Street
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast & Gathering
9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Strategies for Preserving Sacred Places
Speakers:
- Leslie Canaan, Senior Manager of Preserving Black Churches at the National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Colleen M. Heemeyer – Director, Sacred Sites at the New York Landmarks Conservancy – Sacred Sites | New York Landmarks Conservancy
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Project Visits
- PSABC Church Project – East End / Valley Street Neighborhood
- Echo Mountain – Recording Studio
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch on your own
1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Free Afternoon to Explore Asheville
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
YMI Cultural Center – 39 S. Market Street
Celebration Reception for Spring Retreat and Historic Properties Redevelopment Programs Summit Attendees
7:30 p.m. – Dinner on Your Own
* Schedule Subject to Change