2025 NPPN 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 HERE

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.

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Monday – April 28

The Foundry Hotel – Savoy Ballroom

51 South Market Street

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Check In and Continental Breakfast

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.

Asheville: A “Climate Haven” Faces a Historic Hurricane – Carl Schreck – North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Lunch Program – Planning Ahead for a Natural Disaster

Annie Rubel – Heritage Emergency Management

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 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

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

State Resources for Disaster Planning and Response

• North Carolina SHPO

3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Break

3:15 p.m. – 4:15 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

4:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Q & A / Discussion

5:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Trolley Tour of the Rivers Arts District and Opening Reception at The Bull and Beggar – 37 Paynes Way

7:30 p.m.

Dinner on Your Own

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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

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 Landle, Executive Director of the Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County

– Danielle Del Sol, Executive Director of the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans

3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Networking Break

3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Tour Biltmore Industries and Grove Park Inn

4:30 – 6:00

Happy Hour at Grove Park Inn (cash bar)

5:30 – 6:30

Trolley Available to Downtown

6:30 p.m.

Dinner on Your Own

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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