Waterville Creates! and Colby College are working to raise $18 million for the art and film center, which will bring together the Maine Film Center, Common Street Arts, Railroad Square Cinema and a gallery of Colby Museum of Art.
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New Waterville events center planned in former American Legion building
Waterville businessman Bill Mitchell is renovating the building at 21 College Ave., which will open Sept. 7 and host concerts, performance-based events, parties, seminars and more.
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Work starts this week on new $26 million hotel in downtown Waterville
Heavy equipment for blasting and demolition work was moved Monday onto the site of the future Lockwood Hotel on Main Street.
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Waterville hotel abutters, neighbors hear from construction officials
Blasting of ledge is expected to start Thursday on the site of a future $26 million hotel on Main Street being built downtown by Colby College.
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Our View: Biddeford right to end subsidies for ‘free parking’
No municipality should give away valuable real estate for parking without considering the underlying costs.
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Waterville planners give final approval to Colby’s Lockwood Hotel
The Planning Board heard initial plans for the redevelopment of the former Lockwood mills and also gave the green light to a publicly accessible floating dock on Messalonskee Stream.
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Waterville board again to consider plans for Lockwood Hotel downtown
The Waterville Planning Board on Monday will consider final plans for a $26 million hotel, as well as redevelopment of two mill buildings on Water Street, expansion of a financial firm on Silver Street, and a public boat dock and path.
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Waterville’s $7.37 million downtown redesign project open house draws crowd
At least 100 people attended the first hour of the two-hour event, which gave them a chance to ask questions about and comment on plans to convert traffic on Main and Front streets two-way and other changes.
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State gets to work on new economic development plan
Despite troubling demographics and other potential pitfalls, Maine aims to create a 10-year road map to a better economic future.
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Open house for Waterville BUILD grant set for Wednesday
The public will have a chance to ask questions and air comments from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday about the $7.37 million project, which includes changing traffic from one-way to two-way.