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Economic Development
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Sonic boom: Brunswick Landing development explodes into next phase
Updated: October 14, 2019Since Brunswick Landing opened on the former site of the Brunswick Naval Air Station in 2011, the campus has attracted a growing number of businesses and is now poised to draw more.
Updated: October 14, 2019
Machias makes a comeback, after decades of decline
Updated: October 14, 2019With a $5 million capital improvement campaign for its airport underway, another $5 million going toward a new banking facility, and new businesses coming to town, Machias is exuding a new sense of optimism.
Updated: October 14, 2019Coastal pockets of prosperity
Updated: October 14, 2019Maine’s coastline is one of its biggest tourist draws and one of its most complex areas. This issue focuses on areas Downeast and on the Midcoast that have seen good times and bad times, but are seeing positive growth of late.
Updated: October 14, 2019
Construction to start on Biddeford Lincoln mill hotel, residential project
October 8, 2019Delayed for several years, the project breaks ground Wednesday, and plans call for a hotel, rooftop bar, market-rate apartments and more in a quickly developing part of the city.
October 8, 2019
Millinocket Housing Initiative seen as catalyst for healing housing market
October 2, 2019The two-year old Northern Forest Center project has renovated five single and multi-family houses in the town and rented the space as part of a bigger effort to boost the region's economy.
October 2, 2019
'New opportunities' funding aimed at rural areas affected by mill closures
September 30, 2019The Maine Development Foundation has been awarded $446,757 in federal money to support and assist rural communities in Maine affected by mill closures.
September 30, 2019
Gorham Academy, fire stations among Greater Portland Landmarks 'Places in Peril'
September 27, 2019In its fifth year, the Greater Portland Landmarks list, which also includes Portland's Deering farmhouse and the area's coastal communities, aims to bring awareness and solutions to historic buildings and places that are threatened.
September 27, 2019
Working waterfront bill advances through Congress
Updated: September 27, 2019The federal legislation would provide $24 million to help coastal communities protect jobs, commercial activities and public access to America’s waterfronts.
Updated: September 27, 2019
Sun Life will move to new complex on Portland's booming waterfront
Updated: September 27, 2019The group benefits provider will relocate its 500 Maine employees to a 100,000-square-foot office building planned for the former Portland Co. complex on the city's eastern waterfront.
Updated: September 27, 2019
Rural jobs will be the goal from $800K grant to CEI
September 26, 2019The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Coastal Enterprises Inc. $800,000 to help cultivate new businesses and new jobs in rural Maine.
September 26, 2019
CLT firm LignaTerra will anchor Lincoln forest innovation park
September 26, 2019The company, which manufactures wood composites for construction, will locate on 20 acres of the former Lincoln Paper and Tissue site, and more forest-based businesses are expected to follow.
September 26, 2019
Rolling on the river: The head of Main Street Skowhegan has a plan and a passion
Updated: September 30, 2019Kristina Cannon, of North Anson, is executive director of Main Street Skowhegan. In her four years in the post, she’s brought new attention to the Kennebec River mill town.
Updated: September 30, 2019
Serial entrepreneur: Starting up and up and up
Updated: September 30, 2019Lisa Liberatore is a chronic entrepreneur, cofounding Scratchpad, an accelerator that works with scalable female-led Bangor area entrepreneurs, and launching several other ventures.
Updated: September 30, 2019
Northern exposure: Championing Maine’s interests in the North Atlantic
Updated: September 30, 2019As director of Maine International Trade Center’s Maine North Atlantic Development Office (MENADO), Dana Eidsness works to develop trade, investment and international collaboration opportunities for Maine.
Updated: September 30, 2019
Inside the new Waterville Opportunity Zone 'megafund'
September 25, 2019The fund, created by the Central Maine Growth Council, is designed to better leverage investment for the city's Opportunity Zone, rather than one project, and is the first to be created by an economic development entity in New England.
September 25, 2019
NBRC grants will boost historic preservation in 11 Maine counties
September 19, 2019Maine Preservation will share $1 million in Northern Border Regional Commission grants with organizations in New Hampshire, Vermont and New York for nonprofit and municipal preservation projects that are economic drivers.
September 19, 2019
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