Prepare for Possibility

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.

The Irving Tannery has long been an integral part of Hartland’s history and identity. Through this partnership with Maine Redevelopment, we have an opportunity to responsibly confront the site’s longstanding challenges while beginning a thoughtful, community-driven process to prepare the property for future use. Our goal is to ensure that any next chapter for this site reflects the values, priorities, and long-term vision of the people of Hartland.

Christopher Littlefield, Town Manager of Hartland

At Tolemi, we’re proud to work with land banks across the country to put distressed and underutilized properties back to productive use, Maine Redevelopment is taking that work to the next level by leveraging our BuildingBlocks data platform on a statewide scale. Their leadership is harnessing an evidence-based approach to revitalize communities across Maine and help chip away at the housing crisis.

Dan Marconi, Tolemi

We’re deeply thankful to the Maine Redevelopment Land Bank Authority for their generous and impactful support. We look forward to exploring what is possible with this newly acquired property and are grateful for much needed time to prepare a comprehensive list of feasible options for Jonesport to consider, and vote on, at next year’s annual town meeting.

Denise Cilley, Jonesport Select Board

Hartland’s tannery site is exactly the kind of property Maine Redevelopment was designed to help with. This effort respects local history while creating the conditions for future economic opportunity, and I’m proud to support a model that puts communities first.

Representative Dean Cray, Palmyra

I worked at the tannery for 40 years, and it was more than a job, it was a place where people showed up for each other and for this town. Seeing the site finally being taken care of by Maine Redevelopment means a lot. It feels like Hartland’s past is being respected while making room for something new.

Hadley Buker, former Irving Tannery worker and Hartland resident