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The Benefits of Heritage Routes

Preservation Benefits

  • Identify, preserve, and enhance Michigan's Scenic, Historic and Recreational resources. 
  • Promote a greater awareness of and appreciation for those resources. 
  • Provide an opportunity for growth management within a corridor by encouraging appropriate development. 
  • Provide an opportunity to manage the traveler/tourist impact on resources.

Economic Benefits

  • Attract visitors, who bring additional revenues, enhancing economic activity in the region. 
  • Attract new businesses. 
  • Enhance existing jobs and create new jobs.

Community Benefits

  • Provide a VISION FOR THE FUTURE. Uniting those who share that vision. 
  • Enhance the local, regional and state image on a national level. 
  • Identify, promote and preserve community uniqueness enhancing community appeal. 
  • Enhance the quality of life in the community.

Education Benefits

  • Provide an education for future generations, by example. 
  • Opportunity to share ideas, information, research, and lessons. 
  • Provide an effective hands-on teaching tool. 
  • Establish an education network.
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