Hearing planned on $65 million ecotourism project
http://www.boston.com/news/local/mai...urism_project/
January 3, 2007
MILLINOCKET, Maine --Maine's wilderness zoning board plans to hold a public hearing in March or April on a Millinocket man's plan to develop a $65 million upscale ecotourism resort in the Katahdin region.
The project is the brainchild of Matthew Polstein, a Millinocket town councilor and businessman, whose properties include a restaurant and whitewater tour guide business. He has been working for three years on the Kataadn Resorts project, which includes a community center, a campground and a residential and mixed-use subdivision on 1,450 acres along Millinocket Lake and Hammond Ridge.
Polstein estimated that the project would create at least 100 full-time jobs, spur at least 60,000 visitor-days in the Katahdin region by drawing 17,000 tourists to his resort for about 3 1/2 days each.
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This project is to be built on the road between Millinocket and Baxter State Park.
ATers may know Matt Polstein as the fellow who runs rafting outfits in Caratunk and on the West Branch near Katahdin, has the contract to rent the several Paper Company cabins that are at the north end of the 100 mile wilderness, and runs two restaurants in Millinocket. He's an ambitious fellow. With the AMC and Plum Creek developing the Greenville end of the wilderness, and Polstein developing the Katahdin end, the ecotourism market should bring boom times to the local economy soon.