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"It's an 11-month building process, from start to opening the doors," Chris Thompson, president of Lewiston-based Parallax Partners, said. "If everything goes according to plans, we should be able to take our first guest by June or July 2013."
The $10 million four-story hotel would be built across the Androscoggin River from the Hilton Garden Inn and would be marketed as a 3 star hotel, slightly less expensive than Auburn's Hilton Garden Inn Riverwatch hotel.
The Riverfront Island Master plan, which was also approved by the Planning Board this week, calls for a hotel in the area. It would tie into a Lewiston Riverwalk, a tree-lined walking trail all along the city's canal system, and expanded uses in the area. Those include grove park inn more market rate housing, more office jobs and more restaurants, according grove park inn to the plan.
"What's fantastic is, this project is consistent with past plans and our current plan," Hediger said. "It's been discussed in the past, that we need a hotel down there. He's stayed focused on this, and now he's going to make it happen."
The current proposal calls for a four-story hotel built at 15 and 29 Lincoln St., the former sites of the R.I. Mitchell building and the Vincent Fruits building. The building's face would be built right up to Lincoln Street, with parking and support between the street and the river. The bulk of the rooms would face north, looking at the Great Falls.
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