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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 O C T O B E R 5 , 2 0 1 5 For a daily digest of Maine's top busi- ness news, sign up for the Mainebiz Daily Report at mainebiz.biz/enews Get Maine's business news daily at mainebiz.biz and on Twitter (@Mainebiz). Below is some of the best from our online-only offerings: Featured @ Mainebiz.biz South Portland office complex sold for $11M SouthBorough Office Park, a complex with more than 100,000 square feet of office space near the Maine Mall, sold for $11 million. The property located at 400, 500 and 600 Southborough Drive, is comprised of three Class A office buildings. RREEF Real Estate Investment Managers sold the campus to a local investor trading under the name 400 SouthBorough LLC. mainebiz.biz/SouthBorough An FAA contract will spur growth at a Rockland company PenBay Media of Rockland said it will double its number of employees to 46 as the result of a new Federal Aviation Administration contract for training air traffic controllers. PenBay Media will be a subcontractor on the The multi-million dollar contract, which the FAA awarded to Science Applications International Corp., is for providing training and sup- port services under the FAA Controller Training Contract. mainebiz.biz/PenBay From the Editor M ainebiz presents a number of awards throughout the year. We have the Business Leaders of the Year. is year we honored Doug McKeown, CEO of Woodard & Curran; Jim Wellehan, co-owner of Lamey- Wellehan; and Donna Dwyer, executive director of My Place Teen Center. For our Women to Watch, we named Lois Skillings, president and CEO of Mid Coast Health Services; Kristen Miale, president of the Good Shepherd Food Bank; Gena Canning, a managing partner at Pine State Trading Co.; and Heather Sanborn, co-owner and direc- tor of business operations at Rising Tide Brewing. At the awards events, it is always heartening to see the honorees surrounded by family. Doug McKeown used the occasion of getting his family together to shoot the annual holiday card. At the Women to Watch awards presentation, I was gratifi ed to hear the hearty cheers for Lois Skillings, who continues to demonstrate the tenacity and creativity it takes to be a health care executive in this day and age. More than that, it's neat to see the connec- tions and relationships people have to the honorees and other attendees. In business, there are so many personal connections and relationships in Maine; many are from school or from clubs or neighborhoods. With that in mind, I am sure that many from the 2015 NEXT List will be well-known to readers. Chris Gardner, executive director of the Eastport Port Authority; Leigh Kellis, owner of Holy Donut; Jennifer Olsen, executive director of Waterville Main Street; Laurie Lachance, president of omas College; Derek Volk, president and co-owner of Volk Packaging Corp.; Aaron Anker and Nat Peirce, owners of GrandyOats; Kevin Lewis and Rob Hillman, top executives at Community Health Options; and Benjamin Shaw, CEO of Vets First Choice. Many of them will be familiar to Mainebiz readers, not just because they've been written about here, but because they're out there in the business and consumer worlds. We feel strongly that they are people shaping business in Maine, but check out their profi les and see for yourself. And please mark your calendar for our NEXT List party, to be held Nov. 5 at the Woodlands Club in Falmouth. I'm certain you'll see many old friends and colleagues — and I'm guessing you'll meet some new ones. Camden OTR yields interesting viewpoints Camden has always seemed like a pros- perous place. Now, after our Mainebiz "On the Road" event there, I'm again staggered by how much is going on. I'm not going to name everything, but one of the big- gest changes is the acquisition of the Wayfayer boatyard by Lyman Morse, which is based in omaston. A casual visitor might not know the boatyard, but it occupies much of the commercial waterfront on the opposite side of the harbor from downtown. We will have more on Lyman Morse's new site in a future edition. It's nice, too, to see new faces in that area. is summer alone, Karen C. Brace took over as the town's community development director and omas G. Peaco was named executive director of the Penobscot Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce, whose footprint includes Lincolnville, Camden, Rockport, Rockland and omaston. On the business side, Matt and Karen Sutton, who own Uncle Willy's Candy Shoppe in Houlton, opened a store in Camden. All good news. Peter Van Allen pvanallen@mainebiz.biz What's happening now is leading to what's next bernsteinshur.com CELEBRATING 1OO YEARS When you need a law firm that's only young at heart. Be timeless. BE SHUR. An inside look Get a digest of the state's largest commercial real estate transactions, industry movers and more in our weekly Real Estate Insider newsletter. Sign up at mainebiz.biz/enews

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