
Lewiston’s Ramada Inn Condemned Once Again—Here’s Why This Time
What is up with the Ramada Inn on Pleasant Street in Lewiston? Twice within 9 months, the hotel and conference center has been condemned.
Lewiston Ramada Inn History
The building that is today the Ramada Inn, was built in 1974 in Lewiston. In 2017, Massachusetts-based hotel investor group Atithi LLC bought the hotel for more than $4 million.
In 2023, the plan was to turn the long-time hotel and event center into a 118-unit permanent housing development. According to WMTW, the plan fell through when the Lewiston Housing Authority denied a variance because 80 percent of the Ramada's rooms didn't meet the city’s minimum 300-square-foot size requirement.
The First Time the Hotel Was Condemned
In April of 2024, Lewiston's Department of Planning and Code Enforcement condemned the Ramada Inn after the hotel's owners did not complete repairs to a broken fire alarm system by the date they were required to. At that time, the building was being used as temporary housing for asylum seekers.
By the end of April, the broken fire alarm system was repaired and the condemnation was lifted. But that wasn't the end of it.
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The Second Time the Hotel Was Condemned
On January 24, The Lewiston Fire Department found faults in the fire alarm and suppression systems. Sounds familiar doesn't it?
This time the issue was caused by a lack of proper heating which in turn caused temperature sensors to go off and eventually a pipe in the suppression system burst.
This latest condemnation of the Ramada Inn is the second within a year. All the hotel guests have been given rooms at other hotels in the area until the problem is fixed...again.
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