The nonprofit organization that was displaced when its offices were destroyed Monday in a propane explosion in Farmington has a new home for the time being.
The Western Maine Development Group has offered space to LEAP Inc, rent-free. LEAP supports people with developmental, cognitive and intellectual disabilities. Western Maine co-owner Gil Reed says that when they bought the former G.H. Bass building in Wilton years ago, the aim was not to make money, but to keep people in the area and give them a place to work.
“This seemed to fit,” Reed says. “These people are in dire need. They're our neighbors, and it just seemed like the right thing to do.”
Reed says Leap plans to move into part of the space vacated by Barclays when it closed its Wilton call center earlier this year. He says LEAP can stay in the space as long as it needs to.
