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Bangor council, legislators discuss reuse of state property and mall redevelopment as housing priorities
Summary
Councilors and legislators discussed the possibility of redeveloping the Bangor Mall and reusing state-owned Dorothea Dix property for housing, and identified infrastructure costs as a barrier to new housing development.
Councilors and state legislators spent part of Monday’s joint meeting discussing several redevelopment opportunities and obstacles, including the city’s interest in bringing housing to the Bangor Mall site and the state-owned Dorothea Dix property.
Several legislators said they had introduced or planned legislative language to put the Bangor Mall before the Maine State Housing Authority as a potential redevelopment opportunity. A delegation member described a resolve to ask the authority to consider…
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