AUBURN — An Androscoggin County Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered beleaguered local developer Travis Soule to pay his former contractor more than $66,000 for work the man did on Soule’s Stevens Mills condominium development in Auburn and for the man’s court costs.

Jerry Morin of Lewiston said he spent eight to 10 months partially rehabbing the affordable housing units in 2007. He said Soule paid him for some of the work but didn’t provide the final payment.

Soule failed to show for the hearing Tuesday, and the judge issued a default judgment against him.

This is not the first time Soule has been the subject of a default judgment. According to Androscoggin County Superior Court records, he also failed to appear in court in 2009 to answer to a handful of lawsuits brought against him by Camden National Bank and Casco Bay Finance, which lent him money to buy various properties in the area. Those judgments against Soule totaled more than $4 million.

On Tuesday, Morin said he hopes he can now get the money Soule owes him, but added, “I’m also realistic.” Soule is no longer at his last known address in New Gloucester, and Morin said he doesn’t know where Soule is now.

Located by the Sun Journal at his job in Rockland, Soule offered no comment.

Soule was once a highly regarded Twin Cities developer who owned multiple buildings, developed the Stevens Mills condominium project and planned to turn the Libbey and Cowen mills into Island Point, a $29 million project complete with high-end residential, retail and restaurant space.  

But Soule has faced myriad personal, professional and legal problems in recent years, including various lawsuits alleging money owed, a complaint filed against him by the Environmental Protection Agency for allegedly failing to disclose the presence of lead paint in buildings he owned, and the dissolution of the Island Point project.

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