Pearl Place II

Pearl Place II

Pearl Place II is across the street from Whole Foods and a short walk to Trader Joe's, Hannaford, the Bayside Trail, and Congress Street.

Pearl Place II

From the lobby, residents can see the street on one side and the parking lot on the other.

Avesta, New England's largest nonprofit developer of affordable housing, advanced the renewal of the Bayside neighborhood with the opening of Pearl Place II.

Pearl Place II

Pearl Place II

Solar panels on the high-albedo roof preheat domestic hot water.

The common room is used for meetings, workshops, and meals.

The second phase of Avesta Housing’s Pearl Place project extends the redevelopment of the emerging Bayside section of the city with 54 new apartments. The project is within walking distance of Portland’s major amenities, schools, parks, food markets, shopping, City Hall, the public library, and the University of Southern Maine.

One-, two-, and three-bedroom units for qualifying families have access to free wifi, on-site laundry, and a community room with a kitchen.

This project has received LEED Platinum Certification under the LEED for Homes Multifamily Midrise program. Energy- and water-saving features include:

• Solar domestic hot water
• No landscape irrigation system
• A bicycle storage room
• Rain garden for on-site stormwater treatment
• Unit-by-unit blower door testing
• Low-flow, water-saving fixtures
• A high-performance building envelope
• Added insulation with air barrier
• A heat recovery system
• High-efficiency gas-fired boilers
• A high-albedo roof
• Low-VOC materials

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