Hotel breaks ground across from casino
OXFORD (AP) — Construction has started on a new hotel across the street from the Oxford Casino.
State and local officials, business leaders and the project’s developer gathered Wednesday to celebrate the groundbreaking. The project is the town’s biggest since the casino opened three years ago and it is hoped it will help draw visitors to the casino.
The Hampton Inn will take about a year to build. It will cost $12 million and employ more than 50 people.
The 93-room hotel is being built by Giri Hotel Management, which runs hotels in five other Maine communities.
College will keep Portland armory
PORTLAND (AP) — University of New England officials say they intend to keep a Portland armory building the school is acquiring from the Maine Army National Guard in a land swap.
The guard is granting the university ownership of the 65,000-square-foot armory building on Stevens Avenue. The building is adjacent to the school’s Portland campus. University officials say there is no grand strategy for the future of the building, but it will not be torn down. They say it could be used for classrooms, offices and parking in the near future.
The university is giving the guard 29 acres of land in Saco in exchange for the armory. Parties say it will take several months for the guard to transition out of the Stevens Avenue armory and for the university to move in.
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