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MEREDA 2024 Notable Project: Nightingale and State Street campus redevelopment, Portland

The redevelopment of the Mercy Hospital State Street campus resulted in a high-density, mixed-income residential campus featuring 260 new apartments and nine new homes, a self-storage facility and several small retail spaces. It is considered an example of smart growth, with adaptive reuse of the historic hospital building, creation of outdoor public space in a shared common space and improvements to existing utility infrastructure.

It offers a range of housing choice, including market rate, affordable and workforce, both for rent and for sale. The project included a traffic-management plan to encourage and support alternative forms of transportation.

In addition, the redevelopment transformed surface parking into housing, recreated the street wall along Winter Street, reuniting parts of a neighborhood that had been divided when the hospital was built.

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Developer: Portland NewHeight Group and Redfern Properties

General Contractor: Zachau Construction Inc., led by project manager Adam Routhier; superintendents Curtis Thormann, Austin Moore and Melissa Lobaccaro; and assistant project manager Finn Hadlock

Architectural team: Ryan Senatore Architecture, led by architect Ryan Senatore Engineering team: Acorn Engineering, with Will Savage and Pete Heil

Construction loan: Joe Delano, senior vice president at Bar Harbor Bank & Trust, in partnership with Lindsay Harris of Maine Community Bank

Interior design: Mey & Co., Carrie Dessertine

Landscape architect: Aceto Landscape Architects, Nick Aceto

Historic consultant: Hanson Historic Consulting, Scott Hanson

Additional financing: Genesis Community Loan Fund and CEI

Bridge financing and historic tax credit investors: Chase Community Equity LLC and 30 Federal Street Investments LLC

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