There are a number of steps remaining before the company planning a $250 million indoor salmon farm in Bucksport breaks ground on its facility on part of the former Verso Paper mill site.
But after the company, Whole Oceans, closed on its purchase of a portion of the former mill site Tuesday, there’s excitement in town about the coming development, as well as some relief. The transaction between Whole Oceans and the mill site’s owner, American Iron and Metal, for an undisclosed price was the most tangible sign yet that the project first announced in February 2018 was moving forward.
“Many people were … just getting nervous that it took longer than expected,” said Brook Ewing Minner, executive director of Main Street Bucksport, a nonprofit downtown business group formed in 2014. “No one really had the inside scoop on what was going on except AIM and Whole Oceans, and for good reason, but most people expected it to close earlier in the year.”
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