Choice Neighborhood Investment:
2021-2024
$34.2 million
FEDERAL CHOICE NEIGHBORHOOD GRANT FUNDING
+
$140.7 million
ADDITIONAL PRIVATE, FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL INVESTMENT
=
$174.9 million
Investment in Lewiston: 2021-2024
$324.5 million*
CITY-WIDE INVESTMENT
$1.17 billion
CITY VALUATION INCREASE
*Investment data based on city-wide permit data & includes Choice investments
Community-led
strategic investments
Lewiston is the smallest city ever to receive Choice Neighborhood funding. This is the result of the hard work and commitment to excellence that Lewiston is known for. Our community has the opportunity to be a national model to fund other small cities like ours.
Lewiston was chosen to receive Choice Neighborhood funding after a decade of hard work and a shared commitment to our city. Residents, City of Lewiston staff, and community partners’ work accelerated in the last few years to build the foundation for this initiative: the Growing Our Tree Streets Transformation Plan. This plan is our guidebook and our community’s vision.
We share this work, connecting around our collective vision to strengthen the Tree Streets and our city as a place of pride and prosperity. Together, we are working toward ways our whole city will benefit and grow from Lewiston's Choice Neighborhood Initiative.
When investors see Choice Neighborhood Initiative funding invested into a neighborhood like the Tree Streets, they know there is a resident-led plan strategically guiding the work.
And when investors see our community meeting our challenges head on, they are more likely to invest in our future.
Blue boundary: Choice Neighborhood
Pink boundary: Tree Streets Neighborhood
What do we mean by “the Choice Neighborhood” & “the Tree Streets Neighborhood”?
In 2018, the City of Lewiston and Community Concepts, Inc. received grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Funded by HUD’s Choice Neighborhood Initiative, this funding brought much needed resources to Lewiston to create the Growing Our Tree Streets Transformation Plan.
The study area (outlined in blue in the image here) became the Choice Neighborhood for the purposes of the plan. It is about 1.5 square miles and includes Downtown Lewiston, our historic textile mills and canal system, some of our oldest residential neighborhoods, Bates College, St. Mary’s Medical Center, Lewiston High School, and the Connors Elementary School. The area outlined in pink is the Tree Streets Neighborhood.
The Transformation Plan resulted in Lewiston’s successful application for another round of Choice Neighborhood Initiative funding in 2021, eventually totalling nearly $35 million.