1871 Forest Avenue Multifamily Development
Description
Avesta Housing's plan for a four-story, roughly 28,000-square-foot building with 33 fully affordable apartments and eight parking spaces, replacing a vacant restaurant in the B-2 zone. The board was also asked to waive bicycle parking and parking-lot island landscaping requirements.
Impact summary
Would convert a mostly vacant commercial lot into 33 affordable homes, cutting impervious surface by about 6,400 square feet while adding housing on a major transit corridor.
Applicant
- Name
- Avesta Housing Development Corporation
- Address
- 1871 Forest Avenue, Portland, MaineSee this on the map
At a glance
- Hearings
- 2
- Public comments
- 5
- Total mentions
- 2
Recorded in the meeting · Planning Commission
Last discussed Jun 23, 2026.
Meeting timeline (2)
Planning Board - Jun 23, 2026
Avesta Housing's plan for a four-story, roughly 28,000-square-foot building with 33 fully affordable apartments and eight parking spaces, replacing a vacant restaurant in the B-2 zone. The board was also asked to waive bicycle parking and parking-lot island landscaping requirements.
Planning Board - May 12, 2026
A four-story, roughly 28,000-square-foot building with 33 fully affordable studios for the chronically homeless under the Home for Good program, plus eight parking spaces and ground-floor staff office space.
Related issues (1)
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