LEWISTON — Plans to rebuild a downtown park will get a public review March 14.

Members of the Downtown Neighborhood Advisory Committee and the Lewiston Youth Advisory Council will discuss plans for Pierce Street Park.

That’s the park between Birch, Bartlett and Blake streets.

“In recent years, the park has been getting more and more use,” Adilah Muhammad, chairman of the Neighborhood Advisory Committee, said. “We talked to the kids that use the park, and to the kids in the schools, and they expressed a desire to see more equipment, and to see better upkeep.”

The Neighborhood Advisory Committee saw the park as needing improvements, and the youth council made it one of the main projects for the year.

Youth council members, Lewiston teens attending area high schools, met with children playing in the park to find out how they used it and what they wanted. They took that information to landscape architect John Jacobson, of Harriman Associates, who has drawn up the draft designs.

Jacobson and members from the youth council and the downtown committee will be at the public meeting scheduled for 5 p.m. March 14 in the first floor conference room of the B Street Community Center, 57 Birch St.

Muhammad said plans call for work on the soccer field.

“It won’t be regulation size, but it will be more formal,” she said. “Then, we plan to put up more slides and swings. The younger children may accompany the older ones there when they go to play soccer, but there hasn’t been as much for the younger ones to do. So that would change.”

Muhammad said the groups are also discussing a fundraising campaign to pay for much of the work. Part of it would be paid with community Development Block Grant funds.

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