At separate meetings earlier this year, the City Council heard proposals from the City’s Facilities Committee and from the South Portland Housing Authority (SPHA) as to potential reuses of the Mahoney property. The SPHA proposal called for the building to be reused as affordable housing, with the theater and gym preserved for community use, and a new City Hall build in the adjacent field. The City proposal called for the departments in City Hall, the Assessing Building, main Library, and the Hamlin Building to be consolidated into the Mahoney building, which would also retain the theater and gym for community use. A new Police Station would be built in the adjacent field but preserving some of that open space, and the Central Fire Station would be renovated on site. An independent consultant enlisted by the City Council to review these two proposal presented his findings at last night’s Council meeting and recommended that Mahoney be repurposed into a consolidated City Hall, as recommended by the City Facilities Committee. This option would free up other City properties to potentially be developed as housing. A majority of the Council agreed with this recommendation. As such, the City Council will formally vote on the reuse of Mahoney as a consolidated municipal campus ats its meeting on September 3, 2024.