Gov. Janet Mills, third from left, tours the former Maine Spinning Mill building with Zack Pike, owner of Pike Project Development, second from left, and Pike Project Development’s Project Developer Eric Pfeffer, left, and Economic and Community Development Commissioner Heather Johnson, center, on Thursday. The basement of the building was overcome with 5 feet of water when the Kennebec River flooded the property at 7 Island Ave. in Skowhegan. Millions of dollars of loss to equipment and building materials were lost in the flood.
Gov. Janet Mills, right, is assisted by Pike Project Development Project Developer Eric Pfeffer, right, as Mills walks where Kennebec River Flood waters tore out pavement and flooded the basement of the Spinning Mill building at 7 Island Ave. in Skowhegan.
Gov. Janet Mills arrives to tour the former Maine Spinning Mill building, left, on Thursday. The building was overcome with 5 feet of water in the basement causing millions of dollars of loss to equipment and building materials when the Kennebec River flooded the property at 7 Island Ave. in Skowhegan, Maine. The building is part of a renovation project on the edge of downtown Skowhegan.
Gov. Janet Mills fields a question from the media as she tours the basement of the former Maine Spinning Mill building with Zack Pike, owner of Pike Project Development, right, on Thursday. The basement of the building was overcome with 5 feet of water when the Kennebec River flooded the property at 7 Island Ave. in Skowhegan. Millions of dollars in equipment and building materials were lost in the flood.
Gov. Janet Mills fields a question from the media as she tours the basement of the former Maine Spinning Mill building with Zack Pike, owner of Pike Project Development, right, on Thursday. The basement of the building was overcome with 5 feet of water when the Kennebec River flooded the property at 7 Island Ave. in Skowhegan. Millions of dollars in equipment and building materials were lost in the flood.
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