The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, in cooperation with Preservation Pennsylvania has produced a report: The Economic Benefits of Historic Preservation Activities in Pennsylvania. Both the report and and a companion report on policy recommendations are available as PDFs below:

• Economic Benefits of Historic Preservation Activities in Pennsylvania
  (December 2011, 2.8 MB)
• Policy Recommendations to Strengthen the Power of Preservation
  (December 2011, 660 KB)

The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation funded a study of the Economics of Preservation:

• Measuring the Economics of Preservation: Recent Findings
  (June 2011, 565 KB)

   

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