Dash Davidson

A housing project anticipated to be an important economic driver for the rural Oxford county town of Rumford has been stalled with the recent cancellation by Sunday River Resort of an arrangement to lease apartments expressly developed for its employees.

Orono Lofts will be a three-story, 40,000-square-foot building at 74 Mill St. The building was originally constructed in the 1800s as a church before being converted for Byers Manufacturing.

The Bangor-based development firm is currently rehabbing an 1800s former factory in downtown Orono, one of multiple projects High Tide has tackled across the state.