MILLINOCKET (NEWS CENTER Maine) -- There's a clash of opinions in the town of Millinocket over what to do with a piece of prime real estate, a vacant building on the corner of Central Street and Penobscot Avenue in the town's downtown.
The sign in the window advertises birthday parties but there hasn't been a party there in years.
Most recently, the building was home to Magic City Mini Golf.
There's not a whole lot of time left to figure out what to do with the property, either.
The building is slated for demolition this week.
"I'm on site to handle whatever comes up," said site supervisor, Daniel Reed.
What has come up is a disagreement between the owner of the property, the Katahdin Tourism Partnership, and Millinocket's town councilors.
The partnership plans to tear the building down.
"There's some disagreement on whether the building should be torn down," said Millinocket town councilor, Michael Madore.
Madore says communication between the town and the building's owners have broken down.
"There have been a lot of changes in the plan and we have not been kept abreast of it," added Madore.
This has led to both sides saying the other is wrong when it comes to what's best for the town.
"I think that the building could be preserved," said Madore.
"The reuse value of the building is very low," disagreed Reed. "It has serious issues with [its] roof, and floor, and water, and mold, and remediation. You add all of that up [and] it does not have the value. They could be up on the hill in a brand new facility for less than it would cost to get this [building] up to where it needs to be."
Millinocket has been working to revitalize its downtown for years.
In order to accomplish this, Reed said the building has got to go.
The town had meetings about "things that we could do to upgrade, kind of put a face on Millinocket, and this was one of the issues here was this building," said Reed.
"I'm not really sure how it fits in and that's what troubles me about it," said real estate broker Dan Corcoran, who has an office downtown.
He doesn't see how tearing down this building at this time fits into a plan for downtown as a whole.
"I'm concerned that the building is being torn down as an individual project that's not part of an overall plan for the area," said Corcoran. "We really can't make a decision that it's the right thing or the wrong thing to do because we don't have a plan to tell us where we're going."
Tuesday's rain set the demolition plans back at least a day but Reed said there doesn't appear to be any other obstacles moving forward.
"Ultimately, it's a go!"
It's unclear if the original plan for the property, to demolish the building and turn the space with the adjacent lot into a park, will still move forward.