Mastway Development News Today

Gov. Janet Mills joined local officials Tuesday at a housing summit hosted by the Greater Portland Council of Governments focused on finding solutions to build more housing to ease the market and improve the workforce shortage.

The Augusta Planning Board has given approval on the construction of a new apartment complex.

Developer of Stevens Commons in Hallowell plans to build a 38-unit apartment building at 99 Western Ave. in Augusta.

The proposal to demolish a vacant building at 99 Western Ave. to make way for a new building with 11 studio apartments and 27 one-bedroom apartments is also sparking discussion about need to make the busy four-lane road safer for pedestrians and motorists.

The developer of the Stevens Commons site in Hallowell is hoping to build more than three dozen studio and one-bedroom apartments at 99 Western Ave. for people making up to 60% of the area's average income.

2019's Real Estate Insiders featured development across the state, much of it by local people taking the reins and helping spur economic development in their communities.

Hallowell is looking for a firm to redesign its 193-year-old former fire station, a plan that would provide a new home for the police station and other community uses. The city recently issued a request for qualifications from architectural and engineering firms to design of an adaptive reuse of the building at 124 Second St. that would provide a modern home for the police department, but retain historic elements of the 4,500-square-foot building, partly for a museum that would also locate ther...