Kevin Mattson redeveloping Augusta’s largest building
Kevin Mattson is difficult to pin down. Many development projects in southern and central Maine, and even a couple of the State, it is permanently in jumping from one place to another.
He began building Harper’s Development, a company founded in a little more than a decade and has its headquarters in Winthrop.
The activity has grown about rehabilitation projects in downtowns and the acquisition of the biggest buildings in Augusta - 317,000-square-foot Central Maine Commerce Center - filling and make it conform to the tenants while subdivision countries to do more development and more to add tenants.
However, given the rapid expansion and out of the state, Mattson has reorganized the company for the management of its 1 million square metres of housing and the real estate industry and expand further.
“We are investing in a frontline in the construction projects of the city of old, the old mills,” said Mattson, 39, of Hallowell. “We have to resolve them. We are specialists in this type of sanitation. Every project we have done, it is a sanitation project. ”
MATTSON, officially known as Mattson Development LLC, the parent company of the development corporation Harper’s, which is owned by the management company.
Kevin Mattson is President and Chief Executive Officer of MATTSON. The interests of property in the hands of Hallowell lawyer and former legislator Severin Beliveau and Tom Federle, Manchester, a lawyer recently proposed by Gov. John Baldacci for the designation of members of the Board of Directors of the Maine Turnpike Authority. Federle was Baldacci’s chief legal adviser during the year 2005 and 2006.
Mattson, but with others, including the former mayor of Lewiston Orestis John, who is also president of the North Country Associates, and Christopher Harte, the former editor of the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram. It is the group that has made Central Maine Commerce Center, LP purchased if they are in possession of $ 4.5 million in December 2003. Recently, the Centre itself has been for the sale of $ 35 million, but the distribution of the proposal would Harper’s else to do.
“In essence, the centers of commerce is full,” said Mattson. “There is not a single square feet, or does not exist, or under construction.”
He also started the development around lots.
MATTSON owns’s Park North, a former restaurant entertainment complex transformed the office space. Mattson, Orestis and Gary Peachey of Peachey Builders in Augusta, he has acquired at auction for $ 1.4 million in 2002.
If you have any doubt achieve MATTSON, look around.
Start the beginning of the building of houses Hattie’s Chowder House, 103 Water St., Hallowell, formerly a subsidiary of the motherland Key Bank. Mattson Beliveau, and he bought in 1997 and renovated.
Or even go further back to CB Mattson Inc., a construction and real estate management of the company founded by Kevin Mattson Father who is in the years 1954. After a decade of policy, Kevin Mattson wanted to return to its roots, he said.
“The activity I know,” said Mattson. “This is an exciting activity.”
He began with smaller buildings in the city.
“I do downtowns. I worked downtown, “he said.” Within 70 years, when I started in downtown Gardiner, there was a fruit, a clothing store, it was a true downtown . ”
He said that his first loan investment of $ 10000 on a credit card.
“Now we are Maine’s largest home-grown developers regarding the volume of projects,” said Mattson.
Mark Robinson, the new entity newly hired press relations representative, instead Mattson explains: “reconquest of the older properties in the sub-and finding new uses for them.”
Christopher St. John, executive director of the Maine Center for Public Policy, a group, “progress in public policy, assistance to people in Maine success of a strong, equitable and sustainable economic recovery,” noted Mattson’s development and said Kevin Mattson has participated in its board of Directors.
“When companies (Mattson), many forms of partnerships and develop its own buildings,” said St. John. “In any case, they are a time of preparation or development, and there is a large number of investors involved, the transactions of money. It provides capital by investors, the countries to agree and outside the city, and she expressed her at the renovation of the capital. “
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