RIVERDAM MILLYARD NEWS


		RIVERDAM MILLYARD IN THE NEWS... AUG 9, 2006: PORTLAND PHOENIX Where have all the artists gone? Portland’s creative exodus gives Southern Maine’s mill towns a new lease on life Nancy Kureth is lost in the Biddeford mills again. We ascend a flight of stairs, wander down and back along a nondescript hallway lined with dusty wood planers and trash bags filled to bursting, and end up standing, confused, in a cavernous room with sunlight shining through giant windows, wondering where the exit is. The mill is silent except for the distant buzz of a table saw. At the far end of the hallway, a man on a scooter glides out of nowhere and swiftly disappears again. READ MORE... MAR 24, 2006 : PORTLAND PHOENIX SCENE REPORT Looking for rehearsal space? The Empty Space, at Riverdam Millyard in Biddeford, is putting on the full-court press. READ MORE... NOV 25, 2005 : Journal Tribune Riverdam Millyard finds interested tenants BIDDEFORD—Though their skills vary from binding books or arranging flowers to designing Web sites, the new tenants at Riverdam Millyard all have one thing in common enthusiasm about the location. Though not easily visible to the passerby, the large vacant-looking mills are actually filling with eager entrepreneurs, artists and industry. READ MORE... MAR 8, 2005 : Portland Press Herald Mill's new owner thinks big, very big BIDDEFORD — Steven Sobol stood in the old mill building last fall, looking out through banks of windows to the Saco River below, and dreamed about how this former industrial workplace might be transformed. "It's really amazing space," Sobol said recently. "You can't walk into it and not be overwhelmed by the magnitude, by the beauty of it." READ MORE... FEB 18, 2005: Journal Tribune A Mill with a Mission: Riverdam's new owner looks to the future BIDDEFORD—As the new landlord of a sprawling mil complex next to the Saco River, Steven Sobol feels a responsibility to preserve the open workrooms, large freight elevators and solid brick walls at Riverdam Millyard. READ MORE... JAN 15-16, 2005 : JOURNAL TRIBUNE UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP : Developer purchases Riverdam Millyard complex BIDDEFORD—The old mill complex known as Riverdam Millyard, which has been cited repeatedly by the city for safety and code violations, has been purchased by an investor who said he intends to make the buildings safe and productive. READ MORE... JAN 13, 2005 : Biddeford-Saco Courier New life for old building A Deer Isle man is renovating one of Biddeford's biggest and most neglected set of mill buildings, the Riverdam Millyard, in an effort to revitalize the history of the factories and use the facility as an "economic engine" for the area. READ MORE...