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V I E W P O I N T S W W W. M A I N E B I Z . B I Z 3 A U G U S T 2 1 , 2 0 2 3 Featured @ Mainebiz.biz For a daily digest of Maine's top business news, sign up for the Mainebiz Daily Report at mainebiz.biz/enews Get Maine's top business news daily at mainebiz.biz or by signing up for the Daily Report and Real Estate Insider newsletters. Here is our top content from July 31 to Aug. 14: 1. Tom's of Maine founders put Kennebunk home on the market 2. Here are the 134 Best Places to Work in Maine 3. With university's move to New Gloucester, 225-acre Unity campus is listed for sale 4. Aroostook County native starts gym business in Caribou, expands to Presque Isle 5. Rock Row investor puts $86M more into the project 6. Meet the 2023 Mainebiz Women to Watch 7. One of Portland's best-known developers pays $9.6M for complex on Warren Avenue 8. Maine's tally of 'high-performing' hospitals falls sharply in latest U.S. News ranking 9. Sand, sea, spend: 3 Maine beach destinations among world's priciest in survey 10. Merger of two design-build firms creates sum greater than its parts P H O T O / P E T E R M O R N E A U 1 From the Editor To the Editor L oring had a long history as an Air Force base, brief notoriety for being the site of a Phish concert and now another life as a business park. As Senior Writer Renee Cordes notes in her story, Loring has some major plans in the works. Steve Levesque, who had overseen the redevelop- ment of what is now Brunswick Landing, was brought in to consult on how to convert the airstrip into a public airport. Loring, which is Maine's largest business park by size, is also expected to play a key role in the envisioned Maine Space Complex. For more see Renee's story, "Loring's flight plan," which starts on Page 14. And don't miss Alexis Wells' look at the growing Bangor dining scene, on Page 20. Peter Van Allen pvanallen@mainebiz.biz Loring, which is Maine's largest business park by size, is also expected to play a key role in the envisioned Maine Space Complex. bernsteinshur.com Meet Kevan Lee Deckelmann. She leads our Media & Marketing Team. In the evolving and heavily regulated space of marketing and promotions, you need an attorney with experience in FTC regulations, data privacy, comparative and false advertising, and more. We're attorneys. But we're people first. Kevan Lee Deckelmann, Shareholder Loring's evolution takes another step forward Regarding the article published in Mainebiz from the print edition of June 12, "With Projects Underway, Waterville's Downtown is Taking on New Life", we want to correct the statement that "Waterville was a victim of urban renewal in the 1960s." In the 1960s, the Federal Government, through HUD, awarded funding to communities across America. Waterville's leadership, at that time, saw the opportunity to rebuild its downtown and infrastructure, and formed e Waterville Urban Renewal Authority. Your article refers to historic buildings being torn down during urban renewal. e Charles Street project razed old, dilapidated buildings in what is now the Concourse — an 800 car parking lot in the center of downtown. e Concourse is one of the elements that saved downtown Waterville. Head of Falls was also redeveloped through urban renewal. HOF was a polluted mill site sur- rounded by old houses along the river. Had it not been for urban renewal, downtown Waterville might still have the old vacant Wyandotte Mill and old, rundown houses sitting there. Urban Renewal redirected storm drainage from the local sewerage treatment plant saving taxpayers enormous amounts of money. It also redirected raw sewerage that was being dumped directly into the Kennebec River into the sew- erage system to be processed correctly. Traffic was converted to one-way in the 1950s, long before urban renewal began. Waterville did not fall victim to urban renewal. Instead, it was revived by the foresight of the leadership of Waterville in the 1960s to create e Waterville Urban Renewal Authority and revitalize down- town Waterville at that time. It's time we give them the credit they deserve. Bill Mitchell, Waterville business owner Leonard Dow, former assistant director, Waterville Urban Renewal Authority Mike Roy, former city manager John Nale, attorney, city of Waterville omas J. Nale Sr., former mayor, city of Waterville

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