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This story appears in the May 2021 issue of Town&Gown.
In the fall, Mount Nittany Middle School math teacher Rebecca Henry spent her nights and weekends retooling the algebra lessons she had taught for years, so they could be available to online learners at home.
She also had to juggle to implement Canvas, a new online course management system, for her classes, while simultaneously teaching and keeping up with grading.
“I’ve never been so tired and burned out in my life,” says Henry, who had to make the adjustments because of major changes to her classroom with coronavirus protocols. “It was hard to stop working. I knew if I didn’t keep going, it would just pile up.”
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.