PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • July 10, 2023
Mark Bessire, a director of the Portland Museum of Art, seems intent on promoting mass timber, a relatively new technology in the U.S., for the proposed PMA addition. No mass timber manufacturing exists in Maine, so transport of materials (from where?) will cost the project in dollars and carbon. Perhaps Mr. Bessire will assure the art community that the LEVER addition is the best solution for the PMA collection – as well as a trial balloon for mass timber in Maine. ~ Robert Kahn, Portland