BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 23, 2025
The city of Belfast has made plans to deal with two contaminated downtown buildings it owns in the coming months. The city received $2 million through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Brownfields program earlier this year to clean up the former Waldo County Superior Courthouse and a dilapidated building at 74 High St. known as Bradbury Manor so they can be reused. A consulting firm hired by the city, TRC, is proposing to demolish and abate the manor site while containing contaminated soil, and to abate materials at the former courthouse during the renovation process along with capping soil.