ONTARIO — After more than 100 years spent looking out over the town of Fort Frances, the old mill is coming down. However, there’s hope that new life will spring up in its place. Last month, demolition began on the mill, now owned by a numbered company under Riversedge Development. …Following the mill’s sale from Resolute Forest Products to Riversedge in 2019. …According to Norton, decommissioning work is being done on several existing mill properties, including the paper mill building itself. …LePage noted that even as permits have been issued for certain parts of the mill, the company is still working on exhausting any lead it has on parties who could be interested in remaining mill buildings. …While the possibility remains that a number of existing buildings could be purchased for repurposing, LePage and Norton expect the demolition process to take between 18 and 22 months.