Prepare for Possibility
Maine communities thrive when properties reach their full potential. If your municipality is struggling to redevelop or revitalize a former mill, institutional, retail, office or residential property, you can have a brand-new partner.
Not sure where to start? Feeling stuck? Our team can’t wait to put our experience, resources, and time to work for you.
Whatever It Takes
We create solutions
We offer trusted advice, project support, and bold new strategies.
We clear roadblocks
MRLBA advances your work quickly and efficiently, focusing solely on projects.
We put the property back to work
Every property holds potential, and we work to unlock it.
Wherever We’re Needed
Are you in Maine? We’re on our way. Our team members live in rural areas, small towns, and cities throughout the state and believe in the importance of showing up and seeing it through. Let’s walk through the problematic properties in your community and talk through the possibilities together.
A Groundswell of Support
Everyone’s on board to build up Maine’s commercial properties and communities.
“ Although we have had some significant success on our Great Northern Mill site, we are very excited to be Maine Redevelopment’s first community partner and look forward to accelerating the revitalization of the site. ”
Michael Michaud the Chair of East Millinocket Board of Selectman
“Maine Redevelopment will build partnerships to take on properties with complex challenges. Our focus is to get those properties back to work. What that work is will be driven not by us, but by the Maine communities we serve.”
District Two Commissioner, Robert Bryant, Hartland
“Maine Redevelopment offers our 482 municipalities a much-needed free resource to help bring abandoned, tax delinquent, and/or contaminated properties back online. It's a win for communities, for housing, and for businesses statewide!”
Victoria Morales, Executive Director, Quality Housing Coalition
“This legislation was passed with significant input and strong bipartisan support. The Maine Redevelopment will be an incredibly flexible resource for municipalities to return properties to productive use. ”
Representative Melanie Sachs, Freeport, the lead sponsor and author of the Maine Redevelopment Authority Act.
Breathing Life
Into Promising Places
No matter how stuck a property may appear, we can see through the challenges to the potential beyond . While we all have different hometowns, work experiences, and skill sets, every member of our team is inspired by what your community can do with your problem properties, no matter how daunting the obstacles may be .
Ready to Help
If we don’t have what you need to move forward, we know someone who does. Tap into our extended network of people and organizations passionate about assisting you in achieving your goals.
Frequently Asked Questions
Founded in 2024, MRLBA partners with local governments and community organizations to accelerate the redevelopment of neglected, abandoned, environmentally hazardous, and functionally obsolete properties within the State of Maine.
The MRLBA doesn’t charge the communities we serve for outreach or technical assistance. We achieve financial sustainability as sites are actively acquired and cleaned up, in the form of grant matches from municipalities or recovering costs from the proceeds of the sale of improved properties. All compensation is approached on a case-by-case basis and will be clearly outlined and agreed to before we begin our work together.
Everything begins with an initial conversation. Fill out this form and we’ll reach out to schedule an introductory meeting or site visit!
No. We were created by the government of the State of Maine as a separate corporate entity to execute a public-focused mission and vision. We have our own decision-making process governed by bylaws and our staff are not State employees. However, the State has granted us some essential tools to achieve our goals. We can acquire and sell real estate, assist in clearing title, acquire grant funds, issue bonds for the cleanup of sites, and utilize our dedicated funding source to keep us nimble and flexible.
Right now! We are up and running and ready to help. Be one of our first projects and help us show the State what a redevelopment land bank can do for communities and economies.
News & Events
Get the latest on our work or connect with our team at community meetings, conferences, ribbon-cutting ceremonies, and grand opening celebrations.
4
Oct
Coverage of our Launch in East Millinocket
In collaboration with the Town of East MIllinocket
Let’s Get Properties Back to Work
We’re all about the “re”—rethink, restart, reimagine, renew. Whether you have a potential project or want to be a prospective partner in the work, we can’t wait to talk with you.
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