Lewiston Housing Authority moves to Lisbon Street, other Head Start classrooms move to former offices
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This week, The Buzz is moving, investing, growing in downtown Lewiston and being in charge of real estate news, both traditional news – house prices are up 15% in Androscoggin County – and, unexpectedly, real estate news from the former meth lab.
What discount would a buyer in Maine demand when buying an old meth lab here compared to, say, California or Hawaii? There is a poll that asked.
No further proof that we are living in a wild time.
First of all: Lewiston Housing Authority is on the move.
He bought the office building at 86 Lisbon St. in Skelton, Taintor & Abbott last month for $ 292,500 in a deal brokered by Chris Paszyc and Nick Lucas of Boulos Co.
Executive Director Chris Kilmurry said that as part of the $ 30 million Choice Neighborhoods grant awarded last spring, the Lewiston Housing Authority offered to convert its offices at 1 College St. into five new Head Start classrooms for the Promise Early Education Center.
Keeping authority in the city center was important, he said. The roughly 15-20 people who work there will likely move into the new space before the end of the year.
âWe intend to occupy only one floor of the new office and are currently exploring options for the other floor,â said Kilmurry.
And as they leave, Promise’s work begins.
Betsy Norcross Plourde, executive director of the Promise Early Education Center, said they would start renovating the building in hopes of moving into four classrooms in early spring for Early Head Start children ages 6 to 3. years.
Two of these wards will leave the B Street Community Center, continuing to care for eight children each from 6:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and two new wards will provide care to eight children each initially from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
“The fifth room that we plan to open at a later date accommodates 16 children aged 3 to 5,” Plourde said. âThis is a wonderful opportunity for the Promise Early Education Center to increase the quality early childhood education capacity available in the area of ââour community that needs it most. “
The two rooms on B Street that Promise is leaving will eventually become community clinical services, she said.
AND SLIGHTLY LISBON STREET
H&M Associates Inc. last month purchased the second and third floors of the Pontiac Building at 415 Lisbon St. in Southern Gateway for $ 480,000, according to Mainebiz.
Lucas, who also negotiated the deal, said the two 5,000 square foot floors are occupied and the purchase was investment property.
âThese are high quality office condos that offer high ceilings and charm with their exposed brick and beams,â he said.
Lepage Bakeries Park Street purchased the building’s empty fourth floor last fall for additional office space.
The Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce is the first.
VERDICT: THE LOCAL MARKET IS STILL RED
Figures released Wednesday by the Maine Association of Realtors show that 409 homes were sold between June 1 and August 31 in Androscoggin County, an increase of 10.8% from the same three months in 2020, for a median price of $ 250,000, an increase of 15.4%. .
In Franklin County, it was 179 units, an increase of 24.3%, at a median selling price of $ 225,000, an increase of 15.8%. And in Oxford County, 300 units, an increase of 4.5%, for a median selling price of $ 267,000, an increase of 36.9%.
AND PROVE THERE IS AN INVESTIGATION FOR EVERYTHING
Rehabs.com surveyed potential property buyers to ask what discount they would like off the list price if they found out the location was a former meth lab.
In Maine it was $ 55,216, in New Hampshire $ 103,372, and in Hawaii it was $ 249,538.
In other results, 26% of those polled said they would worry about the stigma of ownership and 59% said they would immediately withdraw from the deal.
BUT THEN WHAT WOULD THEY HAVE FOR BREAKFAST?
Let’s end on a softer, nationally recognized note.
MealFinds.com asked survey participants to rank each state’s signature breakfast dish in order of popularity, and Maine Blueberry Pancake came in as the # 2 favorite breakfast food.
The Texas breakfast taco or the breakfast burrito – apparently there is a regional dispute over the name? – arrived at n ° 1.
Curious about n ° 50? It’s South Dakota’s sorghum pie. (Although frankly, Indiana’s # 49 Fried Cornmeal Porridge also looks like an acquired taste.)
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