Chamber Information Building To Be Relocated

ORLEANS – The Orleans Chamber of Commerce has found someone to take over the vacated visitor information building on Eldredge Park Way.

Judy Lindahl, the chamber’s executive director, said Aug. 7 that the chamber, which owns the structure next to the Eversource substation, has found a private citizen interested in relocating the building to their property in town.

“They want the building,” she said. “It will be moved by October for private use.”

The information building, which has been under the chamber’s control since 1979, has long served as a hub for vacationers and visitors looking for directions or other information about the town. But the rundown state of the structure led the chamber to move information operations out of the building last summer and over to its headquarters at 44 Main St.

The chamber and the town, which holds the lease on the Eldredge Park Way property owned by Eversource, had been working unsuccessfully since the fall to find a person or organization interested in taking over the building. Town Manager Kim Newman said earlier this month that apart from occasional interest in the building that came into the town second hand, finding someone to transfer the building over to had been difficult.