LEWISTON – Community members and designers will be putting on their thinking caps Saturday to find a creative way to use an old mill and industrial site.
Local community leaders and city officials are holding the event from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 31, at Bates Mill No. 3. It is free and open to the public.
The meeting, formally called the Gas Works Design Charrette, is specifically focused on a site near the intersection of Lincoln and Locust Streets. That land was home to a coal gas refining plant.
It includes the the Avon, Androscoggin, and Cumberland Mills.
The morning session will include an overview of the history and future of the Gas Works site, and a session on the impacts of sprawl on southern Maine. A bus tour of the site is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m.
Designer John Todd, founder and president of Ocean Arks Institute, opens the afternoon session at 1 p.m. with a discussion of ecological planning in an EPA cleanup site. Small group breakout sessions are scheduled to follow.
The state of Maine has provided a $30,000 Maine SmartGrowth Challenge Grant to fund development of a redevelopment plan for the project area.
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