by gsmoffice | Jan 11, 2022 | Smart Growth Updates
LISBON FALLS — A development firm will present its findings next week on a study that is part of a plan that may involve redeveloping the former Worumbo Mill site. The Chesapeake Group will present four redevelopment scenarios to members of the Lisbon Development...
by gsmoffice | Jan 11, 2022 | Smart Growth Updates
LINK TO ARTICLE By Andrew Rice SUN JOURNAL LEWISTON — The developers behind a proposed senior housing project at the former Martel Elementary School say the project is moving forward after securing key financing. The proposed 44-unit senior housing redevelopment would...
by gsmoffice | 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 gsmoffice | 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 gsmoffice | Jan 15, 2021 | GrowSmart News
Last month, just as the dawn was breaking on the shortest day of the year, I clipped into my Nordic skis and went for a long ramble though the woods behind my house. Two days earlier we had received 18” of fresh light snow. Towards the tail-end of that storm I...