AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Some officials in the Maine capital are upset that a developer plans to demolish an abandoned building that once housed a local chapter of the YMCA.

The owner of the 30,000-square-foot Augusta building, Lon Walters, received a permit to demolish the 1914 building in 2008, but he delayed demolition in hopes other arrangements could be made.

He says he tried to find a use for the building, or someone who would buy it, but he has been unable to do so.

The Kennebec Journal (http://bit.ly/pp4pD2 ) says the YMCA sold the building in 2006 after opening a new $10 million facility on Union Street.

Phyllis vonHerrlich, a member of Augusta’s historic commission, calls the pending demolition, “just criminal.”