BDN reports that Hotel Ursa is opening in March
The Bangor Daily News reported that Hotel Ursa, a new 95-room hotel located at the University of Maine campus, is opening March 5 and has already received nearly 400 reservations through October. Hotel Ursa includes two historic buildings on campus that sat unoccupied for more than a decade and were repurposed, with the addition of the newly built Polaris Hall. Coburn Hall and Holmes Hall were built in the late 1880s and housed the agriculture and history departments and the chemistry department, respectively. The hotel is named after the Ursa Major and Ursa Minor constellations, meaning “greater bear and lesser bear,” and according to its website. It is also a nod to UMaine’s mascot, the black bear.