[CPEO-BIF] Apollo Tannery lot, Camden, Maine

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Tannery-to-studio proposal: Prepare to listen, think, then vote


Editorial
Rockland Herald-Gazette (ME)
Aprilo 5, 2011
A proposal to develop the former Apollo Tannery lot in Camden into a  
regional film production center has stirred the locals, and with good  
reason.

The town has stared at the empty lot for more than five years, an  
expanse of aging asphalt hemmed off by an unsightly chain link fence.  
It is a small-scale brownfield that a small town spent a lot of money  
and effort to clean and seal off its environmental degradation. To  
try to recoup that investment, the town seeks an enterprise that  
would appeal to the neighborhood of Millville and the town, and  
create jobs. By any stretch of the imagination, it is a tall order.

But an order has been placed: B'D' Turman'D Entertainment, a Maine- 
registered limited liability company consisting of three out-of-state  
businessmen, wants to build film production studios on the land and  
develop a business. The plan involves obtaining 2.8 acres of free  
land, as advertised by Camden in a nationwide marketing campaign to  
unload the property, and, in return, create at least 24 jobs, each  
with an annual salary/benefits package worth $40,000.


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For the entire article, see
http://knox.villagesoup.com/column/columnpost/tannery-to-studio- 
proposal-prepare-to-listen-think-then-vote/390611

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