It took a while for Avesta Housing Development Corp. to find the right property to establish a centralized maintenance facility.

But a 12,000-square-foot industrial building at 2257 West Broadway in South Portland is expected to fill the bill, once some renovations are completed.

Avesta Housing, a nonprofit provider of affordable housing in southern Maine and New Hampshire that manages about 100 affordable housing properties, bought the property from Passage Properties LLC for $1.45 million.