Community Housing of Maine wants to build 41 family apartments and 52 senior apartments behind the original Mercy Hospital on State Street.
Community Housing of Maine is proposing to build 93 new units of senior and family housing on the Mercy Hospital campus in Portland’s West End.
The Portland nonprofit, which supports housing for older and lower-income Mainers, is asking the city’s approval for a new building, called The Equinox, running along Winter Street, at the back of the State Street-facing Mercy property. The building would have 41 affordable family apartments and four stories facing Winter Street, for a height of 44 feet, the developers say in documents submitted to the city.
Along with The Equinox comes Winter Landing, with 52 units of senior housing in a separate building next door on Winter Street. Both developments require approval from the Historic Preservation Board, but the family apartment building is up first, with a workshop scheduled for Wednesday.
“These projects will bring 93 units of much-needed affordable housing for families and older Mainers in a location that is walkable to everything in downtown Portland,” Cullen Ryan, executive director of CHOM, said in an email Sunday.
Ryan added that the projects “will be part of a broadly diverse mixed-income community within a wonderful neighborhood. It is a rare opportunity to build an entire community and everyone is excited to see so much good come from this development.”
The Portland Housing Authority is partnering with CHOM on the development.
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