Calais Border Crossing Opens Monday

(Sharon Kiley Mack — Bangor Daily News)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection will be opening the new Calais-St. Stephen border crossing for international traffic at 9 a.m. Monday, Nov. 16, according to spokesman Ted Woo.

The 50-acre, $120 million project took just more than a year and a half to complete.

In New Brunswick, the roadway improvements by New Brunswick Department of Transportation are estimated at $53 million, while the new customs facility on the Canadian side of the border cost another $13 million. The cost of the new $10 million bridge across the St. Croix River is being shared equally by New Brunswick and Maine.

The new U.S. border facility cost $40 million and road improvements in the nearby Calais Industrial Park and along Route 1 in Calais totaled another $11 million. Read more here.