The Lewiston Development Corporation is a private, non-profit corporation established in 1952 through a collaboration with the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Taxpayers’ Association, the City of Lewiston, and Les Vigilants.
It is perhaps best known for developing the Lewiston Industrial Park.
According to the group’s bylaws, “The primary purpose of the Corporation is to promote increased employment and living standards in the City of Lewiston and the surrounding area, to promote civic improvement … and to foster and preserve the free enterprise system.”
The organization has been instrumental in a number of projects in Lewiston, including the purchase and sale of the Bates Mill and Hill Mill in the 1960s and 1970s, creation of the first spec buildings in the Twin Cities, and financing a modern headquarters for Diamond Phoenix on Alfred Plourde Parkway.
It has issued loans, sold land and otherwise helped countless companies, large and small, including Geiger, Paragon Glass, American Stabilis, Maine Awards, Webster Engineering and Bachmann Industries.
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