Investing in Skowhegan

Skowhegan is a community that values locally sourced food, a beautiful and active riverfront, and vibrant cultural scene with a strong and diverse economy, and residents that are happy and healthy. Skowhegan is a source of pride among all community members and a destination for visitors from Maine and beyond. Skowhegan is a place our youth call “home”, where they choose to stay or return to live, work, and play. With values like this shining a guiding light toward the future, it is no wonder Skowhegan’s largest employers are expanding and businesses are growing with investments totaling over $650 million.

The Bangor Daily News reported on January 30, 2023, in Chrstine Almand’s eight years as town manager, she has never seen such a shift in Skowhegan, and longtime residents have told her the same. “It’s definitely unprecedented, in my lifetime, to see the amount of progress that Skowhegan is making right now,” she said.

See full BDN article at https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/01/30/news/central-maine/skowhegan-investment-surge-joam40zk0w/

PROJECTS:

$418 million investment to boost Sappi’s production of packing and speciality papers at its Somerset Mill
$75 million elementary school to open in August 2025
$65 million expansion to New Balance’s operations with a 120,000-square-foot addition to its factory
$15 million Maine Grains multi-use building project with plans for mixed-use that expands the town’s growing food hub, and will support entrepreneurs and add downtown residential units
$15 million Spinning Mill redevelopment with ground-floor brewing operation, much-needed apartments on the upper floors and, potentially, a boutique hotel of 10 to 15 rooms, and perhaps a 10,000-square-foot roof deck
$11 million Dirigo Solar 2-megawatt solar farm at 29 Transfer Station Drive
$11 million Skowhegan Solar LLC Eaton Mountain
$10.5 million broadband grant with Consolidated Communications
$10 million River Park project to boost outdoor recreation capabilities
$8.5 million Public Safety Building
$5.4 million Mary Street LLC affordable housing apartments
$2 million Boardwalk along riverfront
$1.6 million Early Childhood Center – EduCare
$1 million Novel Energy Solutions – West Front
$450,000 Eli Soll (The Space, 185 Water Street, 9 Court Street)
$350,000 Jason Cooke (Mechanic Street school, 151 Water Street)
$330,000 Austin Associates renovation
$250,000 Patric Moore (65 Water Street – Goodwin Block)
$200,000 Brickyard Hollow
$160,000 Traffic study that is part of the Village Partnership Initiative
$101,500 Me Skowhegan Reid LLC, solar project at Norridgewock Avenue