MRRA inks sale on five former base buildings
The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority approved selling five buildings at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station, generating around $1.6 million.
MRRA's board of directors unanimously approved the decision Tuesday, the Bangor Daily News reported, which will add a school for children with autism and developmental disabilities, a program for at-risk youth and a veterans service center into the group of businesses and organizations locating at the redeveloped naval base.
The paper reports the school, a project run by Topsham developer Jim Howard of Priority Group LLC, will occupy the Navy lodge and an adjoining recreation building in a $1.1 million sale.
The MRRA board also approved increasing the acreage leased by Village Green Ventures, which plans to build a waste-to-energy plant using anaerobic digestion to generate up to 1MW of power using biogas.
The sale of two buildings to the at-risk youth program, Seeds of Independence, will bring in $510,000 to MRRA and the agreement with the Mid-Coast Veterans Council for a small housing unit comes in at $100,000.
Steve Levesque, executive director of MRRA, told the board that a number of deals are pending in the next month, including a lease with a call center for Savi Systems, which Levesque said could employ between 80 and 100 people.
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