The single most important financial tool to aid in historic preservation projects is the federal rehabilitation investment tax credit.  This program has funded billions of dollars worth of rehabilitation across the country since it began in 1981. Steven McQuillin & Associates has assisted hundreds of private property owners in obtaining the credit.  Projects include the following:

• GE Lighting Nela Park.  Since 1988 Steven McQuillin has served as historic preservation consultant on over $30 million in rehabilitation projects.  Nela Park is the headquarters of GE Lighting and this campus-like complex is America’s first industrial park. McQuillin prepared a preservation management plan for Nela Park that has guided work there for over ten years.

• Dillard's Department Store.  Consultant since 1985 on $20 million renovation to Dillard's Department Store on Cleveland's Public Square

• Railway Power House.  Woodland Ave. & West Side Street Railway Power House converted into the focal point of the Flats' west bank entertainment.

• Cleveland's Warehouse District.  Consultation services have been provided on much work in Cleveland's Warehouse District including the Hat Factory, Johnson Block, Jobber's Block, Chamberlain Block, Burgess Block, Painters' Building, Cornell Block, Grand Arcade, Hilliard Block, 820 Building, Bloch's Block, Miller Block, Lorenzo Carter Building, Courthouse Square, New York Coach Block, Tackaberry Trunk Company, Shanman Building and the Perry-Payne Building.

• USS/Kobe Steel Co.  Renovation guidance of two major historic buildings at USS/Kobe Steel Co. as part of a half-billion dollar project.

• Re-use of Schools.  Plans for re-use of schools, including an 1874 Victorian Gothic brick school now used as an art center; Beehive and Doan schools in Cleveland transformed into senior housing; re-use plans also prepared for Watterson, St. John Cantius, East Madison, Lulu Diehl and Hodge schools in Cleveland, the old Union School in Oberlin and for Amherst Central High School.

• Greyhound Bus Station.  Greyhound Bus Station, Cleveland, Ohio, rehabilitation in 2000 of this 1946 Art Moderne style building.

• Cleveland Neighborhoods.  Cleveland neighborhood rehabilitation projects include Crawford-Tilden Apartments at E. 83 and Crawford Rd. for Famicos Foundation; Harp Apartments, Kennedy Apartments and Gordon Square Arcade, all near W. 65th and Detroit, for Detroit-Shoreway; Scharkofsky Building, W. 92nd St. and Lorain Ave., for Cudell Improvement; and Pelton Apartments in the Tremont neighborhood

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