OAN’s Brooke Mallory
5:15 PM – Friday, June 14, 2024
Plans are underway to construct the first LGBTQ+ affordable housing complex in the state of Maine.
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With years in the making, the Equality Community Center in Portland, Maine, is spearheading a project that will establish a first-of-its-kind complex in the center of downtown.
“To have something right [in] downtown Portland for the LGBT community to be part of is huge,” businessman and ECC founding member Ed Gardner said.
Gardner donated the land for the building. The community center’s parking lot will soon be transformed into a five-story structure featuring apartments, a large parking lot, and a café.
54 affordable apartments for those 55 and above are to be made available. Eleven of the apartments will be designated for…
