Construction of a project slated to create 55 rooms of dormitory-style housing in Bangor has yet to begin more than two years after city officials approved it. The Bangor Planning Board in 2024 issued a land development permit for a roughly 21,000-square-foot co-living dormitory at 416 Stillwater Ave., next to MaineSpace self-storage facility. But Bangor requires that construction begin on a project within one year of the Planning Board’s approval and be completed within two. The dormitory was designed to serve as short-term housing for Bangor’s transient workforce, according to the original project application. Bangor officials and developers have long pointed to cost as the major barrier for housing production both locally and statewide.