By Staff
Biddeford has been awarded a $1.2 million federal grant for road improvements around a 650-space city parking garage and adjacent private redevelopment in the mill district.
The funding is part of a U.S. Economic Development Administration effort to support work that is expected to lead to 645 jobs and generate $170 million in private investment, a news release said Friday.
The city broke ground on the garage at 3 Lincoln St. in August. The garage is on the former Maine Energy Recovery Corp. site that will be developed into a 300,000-square-foot mixed-use complex planned by developers Jim Brady and Brian Eng, and is adjacent to 240,000-square-foot Lincoln Mill, being redeveloped by Tim Harrington and Chinburg Properties.
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Fiston Mubalama stands outside a housing cooperative apartment building on Pierce Street in Lewiston on Sunday. Mubalama moved into a three-bedroom unit in the building over a year ago and likes the cooperative ownership model. “With the co-op, it’s way different, because we all look out for each other,” he says.
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Back in March, Houssein Abdi attended a special meeting to find a way to help fellow tenants whose lives were just starting to be upended by the coronavirus pandemic.
They hatched a plan to prevent any tenants from being evicted for nonpayment of rent and to help find additional support for five households struggling to make ends meet.