Eyes on the Street: PA’s historic preservation tax credit still won’t save Divine Lorraine
Last week I whipped out the calculator and explained why Pennsylvania’s new tax credit for historic rehabilitations will work better for small buildings, not large ones, and gently poked at the Inquirer for wrongly suggesting that this credit could be the tipping point for our big, historic white elephants like the Divine Lorraine. Well, in an editorial today the Inquirer got it wrong again.
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