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The ‘last 20 miles’: Real estate boom, new demands threaten Maine’s working waterfront
Rockland – The potential sale of three commercial waterfront properties has the potential to bring new development and tax revenue, but also great change to the town’s character. The properties are being marketed as development opportunities for hotels, restaurants, retail or office space, residential or marine usage and are listed for sale for $13.9 million, according to the New England Commercial Property Exchange. “We expect that whatever we do will be controversial,” Ed Glaser, mayor of Rockland. Elsewhere in Rockland, the nonprofit Island Institute has been sounding the alarm about shrinking coastal frontage still available for commercial use by fishermen, boatbuilders, marinas and so on. Of Maine’s 5,300 miles of coastline, just a fraction, 20 miles, is still available for working waterfront, according to the nonprofit’s 2014 report, “The Last 20 Miles.” >click to read< 13:32
