Paul Stein, MaineGeneral's chief operating officer, acknowledged hospital officials should have met with neighborhood residents while making decisions about the Dresden Avenue property.
The health care company is poised to sell the senior living complex to Massachusetts-based Northbridge Company, which owns five senior living facilities in Maine.
More than a year after developer Paul Boghossian first introduced his plan to redevelop the former Gardiner Family Medicine site, the city's Planning Board members say they don't have clear idea of what the project entails.
Gardiner development gets green light to go ahead
The proposal to bring apartments and condominium units to vacated medical buildings on Dresden Avenue has passed an early hurdle.
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GARDINER A proposal to remake an obsolete hospital property into residential units in Gardiner has passed an early hurdle and is expected to move ahead.
On Tuesday, the Gardiner Planning Board reviewed the revised proposal by developer Paul Boghossian who is planning to build a “pocket neighborhood” on the site of the former Gardiner Family Medicine practice on Dresden Avenue detailed in a subdivision preliminary plan application.