August 22, 2022 EditionEdition

The Mainebiz roundup of businesses and businesspeople making changes in recent weeks. Check out our list of new hires, promotions, achievements and more — at organizations from Auburn Savings to the Maine Film Center to RE/MAX Shoreline.

Melissa LaCasse is the co-founder and CEO of Tanbark Molded Fiber Products, a sustainable packaging startup she runs from a North Yarmouth barn.

Startup momentum is strong in Bangor, which hosts an annual entrepreneurship conference called Blitz taking place this year on Sept. 28 at the Bangor Arts Exchange.

The Maine Savings Amphitheater, which some people still call Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion despite a name change, is staging a comeback in the wake of 2020’s canceled season and a sharply curtailed one last year.

Bangor may not be Maine’s best-kept secret for much longer after a recent spotlight in Travel & Leisure magazine.

Despite raw material cost increases, the replacement of a century-old bridge between the Aroostook County town of Madawaska and Edmundston, New Brunswick, remains on track for completion in 2023. 

Restoring historic landmarks to their “high tide” is the aim of High Tide Capital, a developer investing an estimated $12 million to $14 million in downtown Bangor makeovers.

Work is underway to boost generation of clean electricity in Aroostook County and direct that energy southward to the New England power grid. But how that process unfolds, and what it might mean for northern Maine, are still unclear.

Extended reality, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality: Students at Husson University are learning to use new technology that will help them problem-solve in business and other fields.

Maine’s building boom in the last few years has been rivaled only by the addition of new space for the contractors themselves. Several firms have been expanding into newly constructed quarters.

Amid the pandemic, when many universities were struggling with how to do remote classes, Husson University was...