AUBURN — Auburn councilors said yes Monday to letting a pair of companies rent space at the Auburn Intermodal facility off Lewiston Junction Road.
The Hawkeye Elecnor Group wants to pay the city $10,200 to rent staging space for the next six months. They’ll use it to store materials and equipment for the Lewiston Loop project, part of the CMP’s Maine Power Reliability Program.
Work is scheduled to begin in August.
It was one of two new uses councilors approved for the facility since the Canadian National Railway ended service to the facility in August 2014. The Power and Construction Group is leasing two buildings on the site for $650 per month. That group is also renting space on the site to store utility poles.
The Auburn facility, across from the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport, opened in 1994 and was expanded in 2000 by the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad.
The rail line abutting the facility is owned by St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad. It connects the L-A Railroad line — just southwest of the intersection of West Hardscrabble Road and Lewiston Junction Road — to St. Lawrence and Atlantic’s northwestern-bound line in Poland.
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