The Portland Pirates and the Cumberland County Civic Center signed a new five-year lease Tuesday that will return the American Hockey League team to the renovated arena in downtown Portland next fall.

The two sides reached the agreement in about a month after resuming the talks that fell apart late last summer. The stalemate led the Pirates to move their home games to Lewiston for this season and file a lawsuit against the county-owned civic center, seeking to enforce the terms of a tentative agreement reached in April.

Additional Photos Neal Pratt, left, chair of the board of trustees of the Cumberland County Civic Center, and Ron Cain, majority owner of the Portland Pirates, announce the signing of a five-year contract Tuesday for the Pirates to play at the civiccenter. Gordon Chibroski / Staff Photographer

The negotiations resumed in late December, after Maine businessman Ron Cain bought a bigger share of the Pirates, becoming majority owner, and the lawsuit was dropped.

Cain said his impetus for becoming majority owner was “100 percent” driven by his sense that a new face of the team was needed to get the talks started again. Brian Petrovek, the Pirates’ chief executive officer and managing owner, led the team’s negotiations last year.

The deal signed Tuesday is not dramatically different from the one the Pirates walked away from last summer. The main issues that have been resolved include a renewed agreement for the Pirates to get 57.5 percent of the revenue from game-day liquor and food sales, after expenses.

That was a sticking point previously because