by GrowSmart Maine | Aug 9, 2021 | Smart Growth Updates
Life in Maine is most enjoyable this time of year. After an extraordinarily busy first half of 2021, we at GrowSmart Maine are able to thoroughly relish in Maine’s summer, as we celebrate the solid successes in our advocacy and community work, with housing...
by GrowSmart Maine | Jul 21, 2021 | 2022 Testimony-Budgets & Bonds
“An Act To Provide Allocations for the Distribution of State Fiscal Recovery Funds” Signed into law July 19th, 2021 without an Emergency Preamble, so it takes effect in 90-days. GrowSmart Maine testified in support of this bill with a particular focus on...
by GrowSmart Maine | Jul 15, 2021 | Smart Growth Updates
This is a 3-part series of blogs written by AmeriCorps Member Phoebe Little, who, along with Grace Sherman, is working with GrowSmart Maine to bring our Energy Efficiency Community Campaign to Biddeford and Windham. We know that energy efficiency and weatherization...
by GrowSmart Maine | Jun 28, 2021 | GrowSmart News
Monday, June 28, 2021 From: GrowSmart Maine, www.growsmartmaine.org Contact: Nancy Smith, Executive Director nsmith@growsmartmaine.org Web Link FMI: http://bit.ly/MESmartGrowthAwards Press Release GrowSmart Maine Seeks Nominations for the 4th Annual Maine Smart...
by GrowSmart Maine | Jun 25, 2021 | GrowSmart News
Summer in Maine! Is there anything better? We love Maine in all its iterations and seasons, but there is something special about the golden hour of summer evenings that is downright magical. Preserving Maine’s magic and unique quality of life, while supporting a...
by GrowSmart Maine | Jun 24, 2021 | Smart Growth Updates
Housing Choices: A Key Part of Maine’s Future Jeff Levine, GrowSmart Maine board member Housing is not always seen as part of a state’s economic competitiveness. However, providing a safe place for workers to come home to is as important as providing them with...
by GrowSmart Maine | Jun 17, 2021 | GrowSmart News
How Will COVID Reshape Maine Communities? Ben Smith, AICP North Star Planning & GrowSmart Maine Board Chair COVID has pushed Maine’s already super-heated real estate market up into overdrive. Going into 2020, the housing market in Southern Maine was already...
by GrowSmart Maine | May 4, 2021 | GrowSmart News
We’ve finally made it through the winter, false spring, late winter, and have arrived in full, real, warm, blooming spring. With the showing of bright flowers, warm air, the reduction of snow, and movement of neighbors out and about – don’t all...
by GrowSmart Maine | Apr 30, 2021 | Smart Growth Updates
Broadband is good. Sprawl is not. How can Maine have one without the other?Affordable internet access does not guarantee a sustainable future, but the lack of it will stymie any other efforts to positively advance economic opportunities for all. We have thoughts on...
by GrowSmart Maine | Mar 19, 2021 | GrowSmart News
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