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Mayor Deaglan McEachern hopes the City Council can bring below market rate housing to what is now the Robert J. Lister Academy.

The city has until the end of this year to submit the completed application to the National Park Service.

“This is an opportunity for the public to look at the plans and share their feedback with us, good, bad or ugly,” Mayor Deaglan McEachern said.

The project team assembled to redevelop the 2.1 acre Thomas J. McIntyre federal building site has begun meeting to try to finish a plan that federal officials will approve.

A Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by residents against the city over its handling of the Thomas J. McIntyre property redevelopment.

The current City Council voted unanimously at a special meeting last week to rescind the previous council’s votes related to Redgate/Kane.

Mayor Deaglan McEachern said Wednesday he was “happy” that the two sides are again involved in settlement discussions.

Because Thursday’s discussion about the legal dispute was held in non-public session, Portsmouth Mayor McEachern cannot share what was talked about.

City to give presentation on its vision for federal building July 18, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — The city of Portsmouth is going to share its new vision for a federal building site with the National Park Service. The city plans to give an online presentation of its “preliminary revised architectural plan" for the redevelopment of the McIntyre Federal Building property to park officials during the last week of July, Seacoastonline.com reported. The city has been trying...

PORTSMOUTH – The efforts by a city committee to submit a successful redevelopment plan to federal officials for the Thomas J. McIntyre Federal Building property are facing a series of roadblocks. First, Michael Kane, a principal in the citys development partner Redgate/Kane, bluntly told McIntyre Subcommittee members late last week the developers didn’t want to meet with federal officials about the redevelopment plan for the property, which was devised by city consultants following a lengt...