![]() Islesboro is a 20 minute ferry ride from Lincolnville, a few miles north of Camden. ![]() Beautiful, private oceanfront house on 12 wooded acres on Islesboro Island, Maine. I will know more about the availability of the house for Summer 2024 after April 2024. I am not yet taking reservations for summer 2024 (June through early October). We like open space a lot, and we like green areas that people can enjoy.PLEASE NOTE: I am currently booking for now through May of 2024. “We’re not going to come in and put a great big long set of condos in there. Whatever is done, it will be done for the long term benefit of the city,” he said. The Brighams are in no hurry to make changes, including at the Washington Street lot. That is by far the biggest project on the horizon, he said, with upgrades planned for the other buildings as needed. MacKenzie said that contractors are slated to work on the new building all winter, with the hopes of completing it by next summer. “These questions will make people think.” I think it’ll be a thing that will bring people together in the state,” he said. They will put the answers in a hermetically sealed 48-square foot vault set in the floor, MacKenzie said. For it, the developers plan to ask high school and college students around the state questions about science, social media, climate change, social issues and more. One planned feature of the new building is a time capsule. ![]() ![]() “It’s going to be quite a nice building,” MacKenzie said. In its place, the Brighams plan to build a two-story building with office space available on the first floor and two apartments on the second floor. The three-story wooden building, which had been vacant for many years, was taken down in December. Credit: Abigail Curtis | BDNīut the couple do have big plans for a more recent purchase - the former Em Bee Cleaners property, which they bought for $275,000 last September. Nothing for the short-term.”Īlex and Kendra Brigham, who recently purchased the wooden former Em Bee Cleaners building, right, in downtown Belfast, have also bought the brick former Logos Pub building that’s next to it. “These are all long-term legacy projects. Very civic-minded, I guess I’d say, and the character of the city is very important to them,” he said. The Brighams care a lot about what happens in this part of Maine, according to MacKenzie. Although the couple doesn’t live in Maine full-time, they are summer residents of Islesboro, where Alex Brigham’s family has been coming for nearly 150 years. Alex Brigham is the executive chairman and founder of Ethisphere, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based company that defines and measures corporate ethical standards. The Brighams like to keep a low profile, MacKenzie said. The couple purchased four of the five properties for a little more than $3 million. The city assessor’s office does not yet have the purchase price information available for 132 Church St., which was recorded last month at the Waldo County Registry of Deeds. “He seems interested in doing good work, and that’s exciting and interesting.” “There’s no doubt about it - this makes a major influence and player in the downtown, no ifs, ands or buts about it,” Hurley said. Other individual landowners like Penobscot McCrum own more acreage in downtown Belfast, but the fact that the Brighams have quietly purchased so many individual properties in the past few years means that they may be important in terms of how the downtown will be developed. The couple’s recent spree of real estate purchases is noteworthy, according to city officials, including City Councilor Mike Hurley. Other Belfast properties the Brighams have bought since 2018 include a vacant lot at the corner of Main and Cross streets, the former Logos building at Main and Church streets, the former Em Bee Cleaners on Church Street and 132 Church St., where Edward Jones is located.
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