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Qualifications and Company Overview Preservation Studios, LLC, is a full-service historic preservation consulting firm in operation since 2002. The firm advises property owners, developers and municipalities pursuing historic preservation and rehabilitation projects. Preservation Studios specializes in a variety of services, including: historic rehabilitation tax credit services, National Register of Historic Places nominations, historic resource surveys, historic district nominations, technical services, and project management. All of Preservation Studios’ full-time staff meet the 36 CFR Part 61 professional qualifications for historic preservation, including the two partners that will be points of contact for any preservation services. Partner, Project Manager and Director of Technical Services Michael Puma joined Preservation Studios in 2011 to assist with research, architectural history, and technical services. Michael holds a B.A. in Environmental Design from the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo. He has served as the company’s Directory of Technical Services since 2013, and works primarily on Part II applications and mitigation, assisting project architects and clients to ensure the proposed design and work is consistent with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation. Partner and Director of Operations Derek King joined Preservation Studios in early 2012 and holds a B.A. in History and Anthropology from St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY, and completes research and writing for National Register nominations and Part I of the Federal Historic Preservation Certification Application. In addition to assisting the architectural history department, he handles project timelines, billing, and general communications. Our project team includes Director of Architectural History Karen Kennedy who coordinates the research and writing for any Historic Resource Inventory Forms, National Register nominations, or any other need for historic information. Karen joined Preservation Studios in 2018 after years of collaboration on numerous projects through her previous company TKS Historic Resources Inc. Karen is assisted by Associate Historian Joey Duggan, with Preservation Studios since 2017, and Katy Stuck, M.S, an Architectural Historian and Archaeologist who joined the company in 2019. Founder Tom Yots, M.Arch is currently serving as Director of Municipal services, and works with communities interested in preservation services, including, but not limited to establishing preservation ordinances, creating design guidelines, as well as grant writing and identifying other funding sources 3