The three separate owners had been uncomfortably co-existing for several years, trading complaints and arguing over the mill’s maintenance and unpaid association fees, as well as delinquent tax and sewer payments to the town. The ShackletonThomas portion is not involved in the sale Curuchet’s and Billings’ portion to Route 4 Makers Mill LLC. Together, Route 4 Makers Mill LLC paid $563,000 for Billing’s and Curutchet’s two units, according to Bridgewater Town Clerk Nancy Robinson, citing the deed transfer filed with the town - less than their $643,500 assessed value.Ī third three-floor unit on the east end of the building, accounting for 25% of the square footage, is owned by furniture and pottery maker ShackletonThomas and encompasses a furniture workshop, company business office and retail sales floor. Both units comprised the middle portion of 18th-century national historic building, where looms once made blankets for Union soldiers during the Civil War. Gillingham and Sons - and a second unit owned by a nonprofit run by Curutchet. Neither Jesse Werner or Leo Werner returned messages for comment, although the speculation has long been that the family would use their share of the building, which now totals 75% of the building’s 69,000 square feet, to expand their cheese business.īefore the sale, the Bridgewater Mill was divided into four separately owned commercial spaces of varying sizes, one co-owned by Jireh Billings - who with his brother, Frank Billings, owns the Woodstock store F.H. It’s good to have someone young with a business develop it.” “We closed on the sale last week,” Curutchet confirmed on Tuesday to the Valley News, adding “it is the best decision to bring peace to everybody. As part of the sale of their portion of the building to Jesse Werner’s Route 4 Makers Mill LLC, the litigation has been dropped, Curutchet said. Jesse Werner’s father, Leo Werner, acquired a ground-floor space in the mill building in 2017, a former ski shop that has been vacant since Tropical Storm Irene in 2011.Ĭurutchet and Billings, as the Bridgewater Mill’s biggest owner and through the building’s property manager, Old Mill Marketplace Association, had been involved in multi-year legal wrangling with Leo Werner over unpaid association dues. (Rick Russell photograph) PicasaīRIDGEWATER - After years clashing with each other, the majority owners of the Bridgewater Mill have thrown in the towel and sold their stake in the historic property to the family that owns Plymouth Artisan Cheese.Īdriana Curutchet and her husband, Jireh Billings, have sold their portion of the Bridgewater Mill to a limited liability company registered to Jesse Werner, whose family owns the cheese company based in Plymouth, Vt., town real estate records and state corporation records show. "I believe we are artists." Shackleton said the furniture business suffered $250,000 in damages from Tropical Storm Irene and was closed for six months it now only employs about half the staff it did before the storm and recession. "Most furniture makers are engineers," Shackleton said. Buxton was working on his Masters degree in special education when he changed direction to pursue a more creative career path. (Rick Russell photograph) file photograph by Rick RussellĬolin Buxton, left, works on a chair as Charlie Shackleton, co-owner of ShackletonThomas checks his work at the Bridgewater Mill in Bridgewater, Vt., on Thursday, Sept. He is involved in a lawsuit against the condo association which controls the mill building. Werner says he isn't obligated to pay his part of the sewer bill to the town of Bridgewater, Vt., which has moved to put the mill up for tax sale. 19, 2019, the east end of the Bridgewater mill building is owned by Leo Werner, which he hasn't occupied since purchasing it two years ago.
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