Chatham County, GA - The City of Savannah faced a growing need for an increase in housing for persons with HIV/AIDS. Savannah tapped into the resources of DCA's Housing Trust Fund and its Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS Program (HOPWA). With assistance from HOPWA and Savannah's Phoenix Project, the Daniel-Flagg Villas were launched to help meet the community's growing need. Daniel-Flagg Villas is a 10-unit community of apartments that were created by renovating historic railroad cottages. These units can house patients and provide access to caregivers. The project was a 2004 Magnolia Award Winner.

Cherokee County, GA - The Canton Mill, built in 1924, is being redeveloped into lofts available only to residents who make a certain income. (A one-person household must make no more than $26,520 per year.) The Canton Mill Lofts are financed through programs designed to offer tax breaks to save historic buildings and tax credits and tax exempt bonds for affordable housing. The project is one of three affordable housing developments in Cherokee County.

Fulton County, GA - The Balzar Theater is a 200 hundred set located in the historic Fairlie-Poplar district. The playhouse will add to the cultural-district vision proposed by Research Atlanta at Georgia State University. The vision links Fairlie-Poplar's ambience with Auburn Avenue's historical significance to spark revitalization. The theater's structural architecture will be preserved and the rest of the building will be rebuilt to meet the environmentally efficient building standards adopted by the U.S. Green Building Council.

Fulton County, GA - The historic but dilapidated Crogman School, built in 1923, had been abandoned for 25 years and was due to be demolished when the Atlanta Development Authority saved it in 1996 by purchasing it from the school system. The building was rehabilitated, and along with a new addition it became the Crogman School Apartments, a 105-unit affordable housing complex that has spurred redevelopment in the surrounding Pittsburgh neighborhood. The work complied with historic preservation guidelines, and was funded with tax-exempt bonds and with state, federal and historic tax credits. The Atlanta Business Chronicle awarded the project an honorable mention in its "Best in Atlanta" real estate awards, and the Georgia Housing Conference made it a finalist for the "Magnolia" award in the category of superior design.

Gwinnett County, GA - The Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District (CID) was formed in 2005. It includes 191 parcels around Gwinnett Place Mall, an area which has deteriorated as many retailers abandoned it. The CID aims to improve landscaping and walkability, but its largest goal is the transformation of a former Target store into a mixed-use project.

Gwinnett County, GA - In Gwinnett County, a former strip mall shopping center was converted into the Phoenix High School. The warehouse-style facilities occupied by the previous anchor tenant, as well as the smaller retail spaces, were refurbished into a 95,000 s.f. facility for 1,000 students, with room to expand. The rehabilitation of an existing site not only saved time (new construction would have taken an additional two years), but also saved the public $2 million in additional costs that would have been required to build a new school from the ground up.

Multi County, GA - Georgia's state preservation program encourages regional and local planning, neighborhood conservation, downtown revitalization, economic development, heritage tourism and archaeological site protection. Each state's historic preservation office receives financial assistance through the Historic Preservation Fund of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, and provides matching state funds to carry out the nation's preservation partnership. The National Park Service establishes broad policies, programs and standards for state and local participation in the national program. Preservation incentives, such as the National Register of Historic Places, tax credits and grants, as well as compliance requirements, are established through the National Historic Preservation Act and other federal legislation. States enact programs and services that complement the national program and address the special character and needs of their state. In Georgia, the General Assembly mandates a number of specific preservation programs such as a state property tax freeze, state rehabilitation grants, archaeology protection and stewardship of state-owned buildings.

Muscogee County, GA - The City of Columbus has created detailed historic design guidelines to protect its architectural heritage. These guidelines apply to both individual buildings and entire districts. (The four historic districts are Waverly Terrace, Weracoba, High Uptown, and the Historic District.) A Certificate of Appropriateness is required, before the start of construction, for any change to the exterior of a designated historic property.

Walker County, GA - This project is a result of a resource team visit and team recommendations. Walker County has created a historic overlay district around the park. This was part of an historic preservation effort in the county that included adopting a historic preservation ordinance and designating local districts throughout the county. It has encouraged cities within the county (like Chickamauga) to develop their own historic overlay districts.

California - The Village at Indian Hill Pueblo School Complex is a recent project that placed three new elementary schools and one specialized high school (a total of around 1,700 students) on the site of a deteriorating suburban shopping mall in Pomona, California. 250,000 s.f. of the old mall is still used for retail. The cost savings of reuse, as opposed to a new school on a new site, were significant. The project has spurred development in nearby areas.

Connecticut - The Gilbert & Bennett wire mill, in the town of Redding, Connecticut, closed in 1989. That left a contaminated 55-acre site in the main commercial area of this town of 8,400 residents. Furthermore, by 2002 the facility had accrued unpaid taxes of over $1 million. To improve the area and safeguard public health, the town and a developer partnered. The developer (one with previous brownfield experience) paid the tax lien completely, cleaned up the contamination, and is creating a mixed-use project on the site. The project plan has a diversity of uses, including 416 homes in a various styles, 109,000 square feet of retail, 113,000 square feet of offices, a performing arts center, and a health facility. The development will be highly walkable, and the developer is also building a commuter train station to provide access to Manhattan. 15 of the area's historic industrial buildings will be rehabilitated. The project was one of five recipients of the 2005 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement from the E.P.A.

Maryland - The Can Company in Baltimore (Maryland) is an adaptive use project on the site of the former American Can Company factory in Baltimore’s Canton neighborhood. Extensive clean-up and remediation had to be carried out in the 1990s, as part of the site was contaminated with lead. (It seems that when the factory was operating, excess lead solder from the soldering plant was simply thrown into a courtyard area.) The mixed-use development, which includes several of the original factory buildings that have been restored, includes 60,000 square feet of retail and 140,000 square feet of offices. It serves as a centerpiece of southeast Baltimore’s revitalization, located between the old Canton neighborhood, with its blocks of established housing, corner bars and markets, and the new Canton neighborhood, which features waterfront condominiums, townhomes and marinas.