LEWISTON — The Inn at the Agora is being sold and longtime innkeeper Jan Barrett is hitting the road. Last summer, Agora owner Andrew Knight put the Walnut Street inn up for sale, with an asking price of $1.2 million. He got a bite soon after, and this week Billie-Jayne Cooke announced she and husband, Wess, […]
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Lewiston's Agora Grand listed for $1.2 million
LEWISTON — The Agora Grand Event Center and neighboring inn may be yours for $1.2 million. A month after owner Andrew Knight announced he was leaving Maine because of negativity he experienced here, he has listed both buildings with Malone Commercial Brokers of Portland. However, a full sale is not certain. Knight said he may […]
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Look for the positives
Andrew Knight, owner/operator of the Agora, placed an ad (June 30) outlining his reasons for leaving the area, which were an honest depiction of the low self-esteem existing in Lewiston-Auburn. In my 53 years, I have traveled across the United States. Maine is, by far, the best state. My particular corner, Lewiston-Auburn, would shine if […]
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Businessman should lighten up
As I was reading the Sun Journal on Saturday morning (July 1), I couldn’t believe how the Sun Journal wasted space on a front page article about businessman Andrew Knight moving back out of Maine citing “this strong negativity” “that’s very, very taxing” as his reason for doing so. Knight complained that “the belief that […]
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Unite as one city
Tradition is good. I own the Agora Grand Event Center, where most of our business comes from traditional weddings. Tradition should be honored and celebrated. But tradition should never be a justification for fear of change. There is a growing movement right now to unify Lewiston and Auburn. The grassroots organization, OneLA, is strongly in […]
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St. Patrick’s Church bell sold
LEWISTON — The former St. Patrick’s Church no longer has its bell. Workers removed the massive, 128-year-old bronze bell from the church bell tower Friday morning, inching it along a platform before connecting it to a crane and lowering it to a waiting flatbed truck. On the ground, a section of Bates Street was shut […]
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A. Knight: Respectful of Msgr. Wallace
A local gentleman contacted me suggesting that former St. Patrick’s parishioners would be distressed by using Msgr. Thomas Wallace’s former crypt as a “macabre video-viewing space” (Sun Journal, May 22). A phenomenal man, Msgr. Wallace contributed enormously to this community. St. Patrick’s Church was his lifeblood — he personally funded much of its construction and […]
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Knight has plan to save St. Patrick Church in Lewiston
LEWISTON — Andrew Knight’s mission to find a church to rescue sent him to more than a dozen properties in six states. Then, he glimpsed the former St. Patrick Church at 220 Bates St. “It’s breathtaking,” said Knight, a real estate developer from Arlington, Va. “It quite literally took my breath away. When I walked […]