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Article: Family buys Bar Harbor hotel Witham partnership expands holdings with Atlantic Oakes
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- May 14, 2008
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BAR HARBOR - The Witham family, which owns several local hotels,
has expanded its holdings by buying a local resort long owned by
another prominent lodging-business family.
The Witham Family Partnership bought the Atlantic Oakes Resort &
Conference Center from the Cough family at the beginning of this
month.
The Witham Family Partnership owns the Bar Harbor Inn, which
overlooks the harbor, and the Bar Harbor Grand Hotel on Main Street;
David J. Witham, CEO of the partnership, personally owns the Acadia
Inn on Eden Street. Christine Witham, David J. Witham's daughter,
owned the Maine Street Motel downtown but sold it earlier this year
to Mount Desert Island Hospital, which plans to renovate ...