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Read Article A new $4 million solar array is planned by a Virginia developer for three properties behind 1054 North River Road in Auburn, shown here Wednesday. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal This week the Buzz is building, growing and getting in a few jumping jacks. First up: The Auburn Planning Board approved a $4 million, 4-megawatt solar array project off North River Road. Hexagon Energy, behind the Auburn Solar project, “is a small developer based out of Charlottesville, Virginia, drawn to do business in Maine by the recent pro-solar legislation,” according to its application. The array w...

The city of Auburn has put seven city-owned properties up for sale, in the latest step of an aggressive new economic development strategy. The property — six lots and a historic church — are downtown, in the New Auburn area and a nearby corridor. Both are spots the city said are "highly desirable" to developers. The move comes after Auburn officials in November announced a new focus on economic development and restructured its city economic development department. In January, Mayor Jason Levesque also invited developers to build 2,000 market-rate homes in the city. Levesque and other o...