[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "How one Maine town reinvented itself after its biggest employer [Brunswick Naval Air Station] left"

[Lenny Siegel]

How one Maine town reinvented itself after its biggest employer left


By Beth Brogan
Bangor Daily News (ME)
November 15, 2018 

BRUNSWICK, Maine - Visitors in Brunswick this holiday season will find the town bustling like it hasn’t in years, hearkening back more than a decade ago to when Brunswick Naval Air Station was at its peak.

Heading into town along Pleasant Street, the Portland Diocese is building a 15,000-square-foot multipurpose building at St. John the Baptist Church and Catholic School.

A few blocks away across the street, a two-story rooftop aquaponic greenhouse rises over Tao Yuan, the first of three restaurants opened by chef Cara Stadler, a five-time semifinalist for the James Beard Rising Star Chef Award. Stadler plans to raise fish and plants for Tao Yuan and her two Portland restaurants, Bao Bao Dumpling House and Lio Restaurant, in the greenhouse.

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For the entire article, see
https://bangordailynews.com/2018/11/15/news/midcoast/how-one-maine-town-reinvented-itself-after-its-biggest-employer-left/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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