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“We are pleased to renew our connection with Bob,” said Managing Partner Gloria Pinza. “His deep knowledge of the business community in New England, as well as his insight into the inner workings of the state government, are valuable additions to the strong capabilities of Pierce Atwood.”
Besides leading the Baldacci Group, Mr. Baldacci is actively engaged in originating and executing transactional opportunities for GroupArgent, which provides investment banking and principal investing services to fast growing entrepreneurial companies in the tech/media/telecom, aerospace and defense sectors.
Formerly, Mr. Baldacci worked with Ocean Properties, a Maine-based real estate firm; served on the Board of Visitors for the University of Maine; was president of the Economic Development Council of Maine and the Bangor Region Development Alliance; chaired the Finance Authority of Maine, and taught at University of Maine.
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The Go-to Guy
June 2005
Page 51
Robert Baldacci
Age: 52
Consultant
Portland, ME
New Brunswick is Maine’s largest trading partner, with more than $3 billion exchanged annually. Although most trade involves petroleum, there has been significant growth in other industrial sectors thanks in part to Robert Baldacci, the managing director of Pierce Atwood LLP in Portland.
Baldacci’s practice is prodigious. One moment he’s working with McCain Foods Ltd. to increase weight limits on Interstate highways; the next he’s helping a small Canadian company access American government contracts and win Maine tax incentives. He also is president of the Bangor Region Development Alliance and a member of the University of Maine’s board of visitors.
Underlying all of Baldacci’s activities is a deep commitment to public service, which runs in the family. His brother John Baldacci is the governor of Maine, and his cousin is former United States Senate majority leader George Mitchell, who brokered peace negotiations in Northern Ireland in 1998.
Baldacci believes that a good part of Maine has more in common with Atlantic Canada than with Massachusetts or Connecticut, and he advocates strength in numbers: “We can become more competitive by joining hands.” One such venture is Atlantica, a proposed regional trading block with the Port of Halifax as a gateway to Europe and Asia.
Of course building cross-border success stories requires co-operation, and Baldacci has formed an extraordinary network of confederates. Mario Theriault, the CEO of Shift-Central Inc., a Moncton-based competitive intelligence firm, is impressed with Baldacci’s savvy and results. “Bob understands our need to collaborate regionally and to compete globally,” he says, “and the positive impact that sound policy can have on the economy.”
Joshua Samuel
Turning to face the future.
Fall Supplement 1990
Magazine pp 2-3
Less than two years after breaking ground in September, 1988, the Center For Advanced Medicine at St. Joseph Hospital was officially dedicated on June 1. Presiding at the dedication were Sister Mary Norberta, president/CEO of St. Joseph Hospital, and Robert E. Baldacci, Jr., president of Baldacci Associates, owner/developer of the new building. The first major addition to St. Joseph Hospital since 1985, the $3.5 million, 3-story office/medical complex is a cooperative project of St. Joseph Healthcare and Baldacci. “A major physician and office complex has been a long time in planning,” Sister Norberta said of the joint venture. “In today’s environment, most hospitals have limited resources to spend on bricks and mortar these days. It is fortunate that Mr. Baldacci was willing to make this major investment in our future.” The guest list included many of Mr. Baldacci’s family and friends, as well as employees, trustees and friends of the hospital, and several local business and political leaders.
Sister Norberta reflected on the past century’s medical achievements, including the discovery of anesthesia, antiseptics and antibiotics, and modern day advances, such as computed tomography (C-T) scanning, laser surgery, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), lithotripsy and a vast array of new drugs. Sister encouraged all present to be grateful to the Lord for the “modern miracles” we experience in health care.
A plan takes shape. Since the early 1980s, long range plans for St. Joseph Hospital had included a new physicians’ office building. In 1986, the hospital Administration and Board pursued the idea of working with Bangor developer Robert Baldacci, Jr., who would construct such a building on land leased from the Sponsoring Body. Once all Church, State and legal approvals were secured, Hospital Building and Equipment Corporation (HBE) of St. Louis, MO was selected as architect and prime contractor. Groundbreaking took place in September, 1988. By the fall of 1989, the building was ready for its first tenant, Cellular Technology. In addition, tenants in the new building now include administrative offices of St. Joseph Healthcare, several physicians’ offices, the Endotech laboratory and St. Joseph Hospitals’ Esther Rosen Aisner Stone and Urology Center.
The building itself is dedicated to the memory of the two grandmothers of owner Robert Baldacci, Jr. – Rose Saad Karam and Rita Baldacci Carparelli. In an emotional tribute, Baldacci remembered his grandmothers as shining examples of dedication to family, to business and to public service. Both of them, he recalled, were active members of the SJH Auxiliary and supporters of St, Joseph Hospital.
Baldacci, whose company has developed scores of buildings throughout Maine, remarked that he had been waiting a long time for a chance at a fitting tribute to his beloved grandmothers. “The Center for Advanced Medicine is about people helping people,” he said. “That’s how my grandmothers lived their lives, unselfishly giving of themselves to family, friends and community.”
Center For Advanced Medicine Under Construction at St. Joe’s
January 20, 1989
Page 22
The weather was so perfect last Friday morning that it prompted the president of St. Joseph Healthcare Foundation to remark that it must be “a sign of God’s Favor.”
That comment from Mother Mary Landeline seemed to sum up the goodwill and optimism that marked the groundbreaking on a $3.5 million medical office building put behind St. Joseph’s Hospital.
The new 38,000 square foot building will connect to the rear of the present hospital and run perpendicular to it, crossing what is now French Street. Once completed, about 15 months from now, the building will provide St. Joseph’s with a new main entrance on Broadway, according to Robert Baldacci of Baldacci Associates, developer and owner of the project.
In addition to providing office space for physicians, the new building also will house the hospital’s new lithotripsy suite and a docking bay to support a mobile kidney lithotripter unit, which recently received preliminary approval from the state Department of Human Services. The lithotripter will allow St. Joseph’s to treat patients with kidney stones using a sonic shock device as opposed to surgery.
The new structure also will provide space for the hospital and its parent organization, St. Joseph Healthcare Foundation. That will allow the hospital to consolidate all of its outpatient services, except emergency service and ambulatory surgery, on the first floor of the main hospital building.
Baldacci noted that the building, which will remain in his ownership, will be “tax paying project for the city.”
Sen. George Mitchell, who helped Mother Landeline dig up the first shovel full of dirt on the project, said the project represented another indication of “enormous contribution that St. Joseph Hospital has made in health care over the years.” Mitchell said that as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee on Health, he knows how difficult it is to achieve the goal of available, high quality, affordable health care.
Bangor City Council Chairman Marshall Frankel observed that the groundbreaking symbolized what can happen when people “can be positive and work together…this is really going to be a help for people and that’s what it’s all about.”
Contractor for the project is HBE Medical Buildings, Inc. of St. Louis, Mo., the world’s largest design and building firm specializing in healthcare projects. Local firms will be subcontracted for all phases of construction, Baldacci indicated. Financing is through Maine Savings Bank.
Baldacci receives Family Housing Award
November 19, 1986
Page 16
Developers of Dexter’s Hillside Park
BANGOR – Robert E. Baldacci, Jr. of Bangor and Ronald C. Coffin of Portland, the developers of Dexter’s Hillside Park off Prospect St., were singled out for recognition by the Farmers Home Administration recently for work on a similar housing complex in Searsport.
Last week, Dwight Sewell, who directs FmHA activities in Maine, presented the two developers with the Family Housing Award for 1986 for their development of the 24-unit Mariner Woods project in Searsport. Pointing out that the development is well-designed and modestly-priced; the award states that “more low and moderate income people will be helped by this king of project.”
Architects on the Searsport project were Webster, Baldwin, Rohman, Day, and Czarniecki, the same Bangor firm which designed Baldacci’s Dexter project.