CONWAY — On Jan. 14, state Rep. David Paige (D-Conway) invited leading housing advocate state Sen. Rebecca Perkins Kwoka (D-Portsmouth) to join him for a tour with Bluebird Project developer/Conway Planning Board/Conway Charter Commission member Eliza Grant of the 19th-century Bunker Building on Pine Street in North Conway.
The building is to be renovated into eight apartments (it currently has one rented apartment).
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