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Bates Mill #5: A Case Study In Innovation, Past And Future, George Peterson
Bates Mill #5: A Case Study In Innovation, Past And Future, George Peterson
Honors College
Bates Mill #5 has stood as a symbol of innovation in downtown Lewiston Maine
since 1914 when it was completed. It has been vacant since the early 2000s when the remnants of the Bates Manufacturing Company moved their textile operation to Monmouth, Maine. The city of Lewiston seized Mill #5 in 1992 for unpaid taxes and has been grappling with how to reuse the property since then. In order to discuss the possible futures of Mill #5, it is important to have an understanding of the situation as it stands today; what has recently been done with the building and …