Nickerson O'Day

The need for more shelter beds and transitional housing has increased in recent years. Hope House is the only low-barrier shelter north of Waterville that offers health services and low-income housing programs.

To greet the park's 4 million annual visitors, the $27.7 million Acadia Gateway Center is situated on the main thoroughfare to Mount Desert Island.

Community members from the Penobscot Nation had the opportunity to sign the last two sheets of plywood roof sheathing.

Maine has many construction projects underway, in industries from health care to tourism to renewable energy. In Trenton, the Acadia Gateway Center, a $27.7 million transit hub and welcome center, was a long time coming.

The project will remove an inefficient 20,000-square-foot maintenance complex, four temporary trailers and 11 outbuildings, and construct a new LEED Silver facility.

A roundup of construction news from around Maine includes work by Consigli, SMRT, Nickerson & O'Day and DeStefano & Associates.

Nickerson & O’Day of Brewer submitted the winning bid of $27.7 million for the second phase of the Acadia Gateway Center. The first phase was completed in 2012.

Construction projects underway include the Vertical Harvest site in Westbrook, a new maintenance facility at Acadia National Park and an education and research center at Wolfe's Neck in Freeport.