LEWISTON – City councilors will get a tour of the downtown residential area Tuesday night, courtesy of the Visible Community and Councilor Tina Bailey.

“It’s just an opportunity to get the councilors familiar with the downtown neighborhood and some of the issues they’ll be dealing with,” Bailey said. “We’ll actually be able to show them the good and the bad things that are going on downtown.”

Bailey is the City Council representative from Ward 5, which encompasses the downtown neighborhoods.

Visible Community is a group of downtown residents and community activists that formed in 2005 after the city proposed a massive renovation program. The group helped get the city to support that initiative, especially a plan to replace blocks of apartments and tenement buildings with a boulevard.

The tour begins at 6 p.m. Tuesday in City Hall. Councilors will walk down Park Street, up Maple Street, to Knox, Birch and Blake streets. They’ll stop at the Pierce Street park then continue down Bartlett Street, to Birch and Blake streets, walk through the Community Concepts parking lot to Kennedy Park.

“We want to show them some of the new housing developments,” Bailey said. “We want to show them developments along Blake Street, as well as the work that Sisters of Charity did. We want them to see what kind of shape the sidewalks are in and show them around the community gardens.”