When we say This is Lewiston…
This is Lewiston is a campaign that represents our community as we are now: vibrant, hard-working, and full of connection and opportunity. It represents the community we know is possible.
Lewiston: a community worth investment.
In 2021, Lewiston became the smallest city in the United States to receive the Choice Neighborhoods Grant. That grant kicked off significant investment in Maine’s poorest neighborhood: Lewiston’s Tree Streets Neighborhood.
Since then, our community has seen historic investment, which has strengthened our entire city. The work to get us continues. And like any difficult project, takes partnership, time, effort, and ingenuity - and it’s not done.
Businesses, organizations, funders, government entities, and community leaders are working hard to address our community’s many challenges, and yet the tired rhetoric about our beloved community remains.
This is Lewiston aims to highlight the difficult and necessary work people across our community are doing to make it better, and invites everyone to be part of the solutions.
This is Lewiston, like our community, is a work in progress.
It starts where Lewiston started: in our downtown. It branches out through the Tree Streets, connecting future investment in Lewiston to our entire community’s success.
The people in these images are Lewiston. We are part of this work: life-long residents, newcomers, small business owners, teachers, neighbors, volunteers, youth. We are people from all different backgrounds.
And we care about Lewiston’s future. We know we can work together to build the community we know is possible. Across our city, people with different beliefs and backgrounds are stepping up, doing the work, and finding solutions—not because it’s easy, but because it’s right.
Like those who built Lewiston over 200 years ago, we don’t shy away from those challenges. We acknowledge them. We work toward solutions. We succeed, we fail, and we try again until we get it right.