The Mainebiz team canvassed presentations and talks at Thursday's forecast conference of the Maine Real Estate & Development Association. Here are some of the findings we came away with.
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Originally developed for Northern New England Telephone Co., offers came from throughout the country. The buyer was willing to tour the property early, an important consideration for their selection.
A series of sales and acquisitions over the past year have helped South Berwick real estate developers Jim and Rebecca Henry tune their portfolio to new opportunities, as Maine becomes the go-to state for people looking to move from larger metropolitan areas.
The Henrys, owners of real estate development company Remington Street Properties, come from software technology backgrounds in Boston, then became active in real estate investment in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine.
Jim Henry is originally from Maine.
Their focus initially was on the Portland multi-family market. In 2019, they took their first plunge into the office market with the purchase of the Cinamon Building at 1 Pleasant St. in Portland’s Old Port and also expanded geographically, buying 19 mostly multi-family buildings in Augusta.
Letter to the editor: Keep Maine safe for all – oppose Scarborough ICE facility
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I am writing as a member of the southern Maine community who is deeply concerned and upset by the construction of the new Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facility at 40 Manson Libby Road in Scarborough.
In September, members of Congress released a report exposing both egregious conditions in ICE detention centers as well as the agency’s failure to identify and respond to abuses.
Following visits to eight ICE detention facilities and interviews with more than 400 people in ICE custody, members of the House Committee on Homeland Security reported poor physical and mental health care, failure to protect people in detention from COVID and constrained access to legal services and information.