ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY OF PATERSON'S MILLS & INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES
Paterson is promising to adopt a rapidly-growing economic model based on highlighting diversity, urbanism, its unique national heritage, educational opportunities and cultural programming based on arts, dining and entertainment. Historic preservation is put forward as an important tool for achieving these goals, and specifically, the recognition that the historic large-scale industrial mills should play an important role in the new model economy as they did in the city's past industrial economy. A survey of thirty mills and complexes was completed in the fall of 2012. Twenty eight of the thirty two were defined as eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, providing a tax credit opportunity for owners interested in future rehabilitation and reuse of their properties. These mills may be preserved and reactivated as neighborhood nodes/anchors in order to provide a variety of economic and social benefits as well as tourism linkages across town.
Especially because there are many large-scale mills in residential neighborhoods, a mixed-use model for reuse would represent a higher and better use than the traditional reuse patterns of these structures as strictly either warehousing or housing.
Paterson is promising to adopt a rapidly-growing economic model based on highlighting diversity, urbanism, its unique national heritage, educational opportunities and cultural programming based on arts, dining and entertainment. Historic preservation is put forward as an important tool for achieving these goals, and specifically, the recognition that the historic large-scale industrial mills should play an important role in the new model economy as they did in the city's past industrial economy. A survey of thirty mills and complexes was completed in the fall of 2012. Twenty eight of the thirty two were defined as eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, providing a tax credit opportunity for owners interested in future rehabilitation and reuse of their properties. These mills may be preserved and reactivated as neighborhood nodes/anchors in order to provide a variety of economic and social benefits as well as tourism linkages across town.
Especially because there are many large-scale mills in residential neighborhoods, a mixed-use model for reuse would represent a higher and better use than the traditional reuse patterns of these structures as strictly either warehousing or housing.