City Balks at Scrap Yard Move ; the Bayside Business Is Talking with the New Owner of the Former Durastone Plant in South Portland.

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The owners of a scrap metal yard that is being pushed off the Portland peninsula are discussing a move to South Portland with the new owner of the idle DuraStone concrete plant. New England Metal Recycling, which showed interest in buying the DuraStone site earlier this year, is now considering leasing part of the 24-acre property, said Jack Gibson, who recently bought the property.

Gibson said Tuesday that discussions with the scrap metal company are preliminary but the business fits his overall plan to turn the property into a small industrial park for various recycling operations. He sees the site off Wallace Avenue as an ideal location for the scrap yard because it is buffered from homes and has access to railroad tracks.

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City Balks at Scrap Yard Move ; the Bayside Business Is Talking with the New Owner of the Former Durastone Plant in South Portland.

The city considered buying the property for a new public works complex, but voters rejected the idea in a referendum last mo...

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