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Good morning. It’s going to be in the mid-60s, with up to half an inch of rain falling throughout the day. Things clear out tomorrow, when temperatures are expected to return to the high 70s. A massive blaze at Eagle Point Energy Center in Orrington on Tuesday night, which prompted an air quality warning for Greater Bangor, is the latest setback for the embattled facility with millions of local tax dollars at stake.

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Brunswick’s old fire station is turning into affordable apartments

What was once Brunswick’s Central Fire Station at 21 Town Hall Place has been redeveloped by Portland-based Developers Collaborative to hold a brewery and five affordable apartments. Credit: Courtesy of Developers Collaborative

A Portland developer will cut the ribbon tomorrow on Brunswick’s 107-year-old former firehouse building, newly overhauled with a local brewery on the ground floor and five affordable apartments upstairs. Affordable in this case starts at $918 per month.

The conversion arrives in a region that, like much of the state, hasn’t built enough housing for its rapidly growing population and is expected to need a lot more soon. Several years ago, a state study found that Cumberland County, where Brunswick is located, could need as many as 8,600 new units (or 1,720 converted firehouses’ worth) by 2030.

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