MORNING SENTINEL • June 29, 2022
A developer purchased four lots at the FirstPark business park adjacent to Interstate 95 and intends to build a solar array with more than 6,000 solar panels. The lots were sold to Oakland FirstPark Solar LLC for nearly $500,000 and the company intends to provide electricity for use by both residential and commercial customers. The array will generate enough electricity to power more than 200 homes. According to James Dinkle, the executive director of FirstPark, “They took four lots totaling 33 acres and put them on the property tax roll. The other benefit is that we’ve recruited a business that pays property taxes, but also does not create odor and does not create noise and is a green energy environmentally friendly business.”