Chewonki embarks on $2.6M Wiscasset campus revamp
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The Chewonki Foundation is planning a major upgrade and expansion to its Wiscasset campus, and the revamp will include modern cabins like the one in this rendering.
The nonprofit Chewonki Foundation is embarking on a $2.6 million campus and program extension for its Wiscasset property, including several new Camp Chewonki buildings and updates to existing facilities.
The plan calls for new cabins, a washhouse, activity spaces, and accommodations for support staff on the east side of Chewonki Neck, a 400-acre saltwater peninsula reaching out into Montsweag Bay along the Back River.
Additional facilities are planned to accommodate the growth of the camp program over time. Details about the planned investment cost were not immediately available.
“Chewonki has provided summer camp and wilderness trip programs for young women for more than 20 years,” said Nancy Kennedy, Camp Chewonk's vice president, in a Thursday news release. “This opportunity to add a world-class residential facility to grow the program in Wiscasset is incredibly exciting.”
Cullen McGough, Chewonki's marketing and communications director, told Mainebiz on Friday that the project is fully funded and that groundbreaking is expected "within days or weeks at the latest."
The site plan for the project was developed in collaboration with several partner organizations.
They include OPAL, a Belfast-based firm specializing in high- performance residential and institutional buildings based on passive-house principles; engineering firm Wright-Pierce; Murphy, Burnham and Buttrick Architects and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, both based in New York.
Architectural designs for the new buildings were provided by Susan T. Rodriguez Architecture and Design, also of New York; and OPAL, which recently designed and implemented a multi-unit housing project for Chewonki faculty.
Chewonki plans to work with local contractors and subcontractors to implement the project.
“Our mission is to inspire transformative growth, build sustainable communities and teach young people to steward the natural world, so we take the impact of our campus development very seriously,” said Kennedy.
She added that the revamped campus will be "uniquely practical, sustainable, and beautiful."
Chewonki plans to break ground on the project this summer, targeting completion for early next summer in time for the 2020 camp season.
Read more about the expansion plan here.
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