Coastal Maine Village Eyes Brownfield Redevelopment

30 April 2005 - 5:00am

Town ready for a big change after gradually losing the property tax revenues that the Maine Yankee nuclear power plan had generated for so many years.

Wiscasset voters overwhelmingly approved a zoning change Wednesday that allows a private company to move forward with plans to develop a maritime village on the site of the former Mason Station power plant. In a show of hands, only a few residents signaled opposition.

Source: MaineToday.com, April 28, 2005
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