Post by Logan on Jun 10, 2016 14:13:55 GMT -6
Gov. Paul LePage’s administration has tossed out bids for a massive office complex, leaving the future of the state’s Augusta footprint on hold and up in the air.
A request for proposals from the administration in October would have drastically changed the capital: It called for developers to submit bids to build a 225,000-square-foot facility within a mile of the State House that would be rented by the state to house 1,400 state employees currently working in other spaces around the city.
That came without warning and the complex would have been bigger than Augusta’s Wal-Mart. It raised eyebrows among Maine developers, with one calling it “a big deal for Augusta” and comparing it to “a planet just suddenly emerging in the solar system.”
By February, the state got three bids for the complex, from LePage ally Peter Anastos, a Yarmouth hotelier and chairman of the Maine State Housing Authority; a group tied to Gardiner-based Pine State Trading Co.; and a Portland company.
Read more: stateandcapitol.bangordailynews.com/2016/06/10/lepage-administration-tosses-bids-for-massive-state-complex-in-augusta/
A request for proposals from the administration in October would have drastically changed the capital: It called for developers to submit bids to build a 225,000-square-foot facility within a mile of the State House that would be rented by the state to house 1,400 state employees currently working in other spaces around the city.
That came without warning and the complex would have been bigger than Augusta’s Wal-Mart. It raised eyebrows among Maine developers, with one calling it “a big deal for Augusta” and comparing it to “a planet just suddenly emerging in the solar system.”
By February, the state got three bids for the complex, from LePage ally Peter Anastos, a Yarmouth hotelier and chairman of the Maine State Housing Authority; a group tied to Gardiner-based Pine State Trading Co.; and a Portland company.
Read more: stateandcapitol.bangordailynews.com/2016/06/10/lepage-administration-tosses-bids-for-massive-state-complex-in-augusta/