The Center completed this project in July 2022. See the finished building or meet one of the building’s tenants in this video.

The Center’s redevelopment of the historic Parker J. Noyes building has reached the finishing stage in Lancaster, NH, where six new apartments and retail space will add to the vitality of Main Street. 

Recent Work

Weiler Building Services of Conway is refinishing and polishing the hardwood floors that were removed before reconstruction and then reinstalled. In the first-floor space — which will house the Root Seller Marketplace and its nonprofit parent organization, Taproot Farm & Environmental Education Center — crews are laying the tile floor and finishing the ceiling. 

 

Kitchen cabinets installed in new apartment in Lancaster, NH
Kitchen cabinets installed in the six apartments of the Parker J. Noyes building.

Fall Line Painting of Franconia has completed the interior painting and carpenters from Commonwealth Construction of Lancaster and Hazen Hill Builders of Topsham, Vermont, are completing finish carpentry and installing cabinets in the apartments. NorthWoods Manufacturing of Lancaster will be next in to build and install the countertops. Garland Mill of Lancaster, construction manager for the project, has coordinated and overseen the work of dozens of companies collaborating on the redevelopment project. 

Anyone interested in renting one of the new apartments should contact Program Director Julie Renaud Evans. 

Impact Investing Makes Project Possible

The Center purchased the 3-story, 11,000-square-foot building to anchor its community investment work in Lancaster. The foundation-to-roof redevelopment has attracted investors who want to put their money to work to benefit the community while also receiving a financial return on their investment. 

In addition to impact investments, the Center secured financing for this $3.2-million project from tax credits, public and foundation grants, and charitable gifts. Federal sources are contributing up to $300,000, or about 9 percent of the project; $2.9 million or 91 percent is expected to come from non-federal sources. 

The project is an example of our strategy to stack multiple sources of capital to make a project possible. 

A light-filled room in the renovated Parker J. Noyes buildling in Lancaster, NH.
Light streams into the new apartments in the Parker J. Noyes building.

Extensive Project Support

We’re grateful to the donors listed below as well as the individuals who contributed to two crowdfunding campaigns for supporting the redevelopment of Parker J. Noyes. Donors of cash or in-kind contributions include: 1772 Foundation, Britton Lumber; Coos Economic Development Corporation; Cloutier Lancaster Redevelopment, LLC; Downs Rachlin Martin, PLLC; Geo M Stevens & Son Co.; HEB Engineers; Horizon Engineering; Madelaine G. von Weber Trust; Mascoma Bank Foundation; The McIninch Foundation;  Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund of the NH Charitable Foundation; NH Community Development Finance Authority; NH Division of Historical Resources; NH Land and Community Heritage Investment Program; NH Preservation Alliance, through the Northern Border Regional Commission’s NHEP grant; Northeast Heritage Economy Program; Northern Border Regional Commission; Northern Forest Center Lancaster Advisory Group; Peter Powell Real Estate; Eversource Energy; Taproot Farm & Environmental Education Center; Town of Lancaster; Trividia Manufacturing Solutions; Weyerhaeuser Giving Fund; and You Have Our Trust.