[CPEO-BIF] Historic waterfront, Portland, Maine

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Historic Portland Co. seeks a community-oriented developer

By TOM BELL
Central Maine Morning Sentinel
December 18, 2007

Phineas Sprague Jr. is shopping for a developer for his sprawling 
property on Portland's eastern waterfront, possibly to build a hotel and 
a mixed-use residential and commercial project.

The 10-acre Portland Co. complex is the largest waterfront parcel in the 
city east of the Casco Bay Bridge. It includes several run-down 19th 
century industrial buildings, a full-service marina and the Maine Narrow 
Gauge Railroad Co. and Museum. It has 1,000 feet of ocean frontage.

Sprague, whose family has been involved with the Portland Co. since it 
was founded in 1846 as a locomotive foundry, said the decision to sell 
was emotionally difficult.

...

For the entire article, see
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/4575501.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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