Highland Green

Highland Green is a 635-acre, purpose-built 55+ active-adult community in Topsham, Maine, developed by Sea Coast Management Co. (led by John Wasileski, also a co-founder of the Cathance River Education Alliance) beginning in the early 2000s and still expanding as of recent Town of Topsham site-plan filings. It combines custom single-family homes (1,400 to 3,500+ finished square feet), cottages, and apartment-style independent-living residences, and has drawn homeowners from 34 states to a campus that also includes a 230-acre protected nature preserve, a Community Center (pool, fitness rooms, tennis, bocce, gathering spaces), and the public Highland Green Golf Club described in its own anchor record.

Ownership at Highland Green runs through a cooperative structure rather than a conventional HOA in most neighborhoods: owners are shareholders in a housing corporation, represented by a Cooperative Board of Directors, with a monthly fee covering the ground lease, professional management, common-area maintenance, insurance, and capital reserves. As of September 2025, per Bangor Daily News reporting, the original developer transferred management agreements to residents themselves, consolidating governance under a new resident-controlled entity (HG Community Association LLC) composed of the community's several cooperative ownership boards -- a meaningful, recent governance change buyers should understand and verify the current status of.