Burt Mosier, LLC acquired the 479,000-square-foot former textile mill building and its properties site in 2004. By 2006, they had redeveloped the mill into The Lofts of Greenville.

But it’s not easy to give away a national park; Roxanne Quimby, the wealthy, polarizing co-founder of Burt’s Bees, has been trying for more than a decade.

Quimby, the founder of Burt's Bees, wants to donate 70,000 acres to the federal government with the aim of creating a Maine Woods National Park. Robert F. Bukaty / AP March 27, 2011, 1:53 PM EDT ...

Maine sportsmen were outraged when Roxanne Quimby, the conservation-minded founder of Burt's Bees cosmetics, bought up tens of thousands of acres of Maine's fabled North Woods - and had the ...