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Camden to discuss Tannery brownfield study today
Mon, 07/11/2022 - 12:45pm
CAMDEN — The Camden Select Board will hold a workshop today, July 11, at 4 p.m. in the French Conference Room to discuss with Ransom Consulting, LLC, the recent Analysis of Brownfields Cleanup Alternatives & Conceptual Remedial Action Plan (ABCA) Select Board meetings are broadcast live on Spectrum Cable TV channel 1303 and web streamed at: www.youtube.com/TownofCamdenMaine For those wishing to participate remotely, please click the link below to join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/...
In advance of June 14 town meeting vote
Michael Mullins circulates letter, voter information concerning Camden Tannery project proposal
Sat, 06/11/2022 - 12:00pm

CAMDEN — Camden voters have two Tannery-specific warrant articles before them June 14 at annual town meeting, business that is to be voted on at the polls, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., at the fire station on Washington Street. Warrant articles 15 and 16 have engendered a lot of debate in Camden, as citizens are to decide how to proceed determining the future of the former Apollo Tannery property on Washington Street, which underwent a costly environmental cleanup after the town acquired it it in a 2003...
‘The crowbar to open the door to the issue of affordable housing’
UPDATE: Affordable and workforce housing emerge as Camden high priority during Tannery decision vote
Wed, 03/31/2021 - 9:45am

CAMDEN — The challenge of what to do with Camden’s lien-acquired former tannery land on Washington Street has been decades long in meeting, and heavily scrutinized. But it is inching closer to redevelopment following a March 23 Select Board vote, albeit a split vote, which directed the town manager to negotiate purchase and sales agreement with a Cranesport LLC. Intrinsic to the decision is a municipally-lead push to increase Camden’s housing opportunities in an overheated real estate market...
The tannery land has been under municipal purview since acquired via a tax lien in 2003
Four Tannery development proposals to be reviewed Feb. 16 by Camden Select Board
Mon, 02/15/2021 - 12:45pm

CAMDEN — The Tannery workshop of the Camden Select Board, which had been postponed Feb. 2, is now to be held Feb. 16, 6 p.m. Each of the four developers who have submitted development proposals for Tannery Park, on Washington Street, in Camden, will have up to 15 minutes each on Tuesday evening to present how the 3.5 acres will look, and perform economically, after their particular plan will be executed. The 6 p.m. workshop session will take place online via Zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/...
opinion
Let’s all be Tannery Park friends
Tue, 11/10/2020 - 1:15pm

The town of Camden has for more than a decade been debating how best to use the property it owns at the old Apollo Tannery site on Washington Street, running alongside the Megunticook River and river walk. A farmers’ market has successfully taken root at the site, now popularly known as Tannery Park. Much more is possible, however, and the Select Board recently solicited ideas from the public on how the property should be used. With a climate crisis threatening the planet, energy innovation...
Camden Tannery Park proposals: Learning/entrepreneurial center, affordable and workforce housing, community space and park
Mon, 10/26/2020 - 9:00pm

CAMDEN — Big ideas are flowing from developers and community members for the former Apollo Tannery site, and now Tannery Park, on Washington Street, in Camden. The deadline for proposals was Oct. 21, and four packets arrived at the town office, each taking a different tack on what to do with the beleaguered piece of town-owned property. Camden circulated requests for proposals last month, following more than a decade of grappling with property abandoned by a former tannery factory and acquired...
Camden Town Manager’s report: Identify and assess wool, tannery waste along Megunticook River
Old waste, debris on Camden’s Tannery Park river bank slows redevelopment process
Fri, 05/03/2019 - 2:45pm
CAMDEN — The Tannery Park, on Washington Street, was once the site of a woolen mill and leather tannery. Its soil has been partially remediated with Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields grant funds and with town money, and language for a request for proposals for its redevelopment has been crafted; however, Camden’s planning director Jeremy Martin informed the town manager and select board in a recent memo that more assessment needs to be done concerning a portion of the Megunticook...
Camden Town Manager’s Report: Taking back the lights; federal shutdown slows tannery clean-up
Mon, 02/04/2019 - 9:30am
CAMDEN — The following Feb. 4 report from Camden Town Manager Audra Caler-Bell presents updates from the department heads, including public safety, planning and development, and from her own office. Town Manager’s Office I’m meeting with the City/Town Managers of Rockland, Rockport, Thomaston, Union and Waldoboro next week to choose a company to assist the Town with converting our streetlights to LEDs and taking over their ownership from Central Maine Power. Over 20...
To further mitigate arsenic-contaminated soils
Camden gets $200,000 to continue cleaning up former tannery land
Wed, 04/25/2018 - 1:00pm

CAMDEN — Last autumn, Camden Town Manager Audra Caler-Bell submitted a grant application to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for funds to continue cleaning up the former Apollo Tannery property on Washington Street. On April 25, the EPA told the town that the application was approved, and Camden is to receive $200,000 for the project. “The Town of Camden submitted an outstanding grant proposal, and we deeply appreciate the tremendous commitment of time and energy that went into its...