Aroma Joe’s to break ground at $50M Edge at Berwick development
Courtesy / Great Falls Construction
Preparation of the foundation is underway at 3 School St. in Berwick for the future site of an Aroma Joe's franchise and an additional commercial unit with six residential units on the second and third floors.
Co-owners of the Aroma Joe’s coffee chain have plans to relocate their Berwick location from 67 School St. to 3 School St., where Great Falls Construction in Gorham expects to break ground on a mixed-used building this spring.
Aroma Joe’s will have a drive-through and coffee shop with indoor seating, along with a shared outdoor patio. The Berwick Aroma Joe’s store is co-owned by the coffee chain’s founders, Brian and Mike Sillon, who are Berwick natives.
“We are proud to be from Berwick and excited to be part of Berwick’s growing village center,” said Mike Sillon. “The Edge development is a perfect fit for Aroma Joe’s and we are excited to better serve the community from this location."
The building will have an additional commercial unit next to Aroma Joe’s and six residential units on the second and third floors.
The building is part of a $50 million, mixed-use development, called the Edge at Berwick, at the site of the former Prime Tanning factory, an 11-acre property on Sullivan Street.
The developer, Great Falls Construction, acquired the property in 2019.
The development is now in its second phase and is slated to deliver six new buildings.
All together, the project is taking place in six phases and will add a total of 12 new buildings to the site, providing about 260 units of housing and 37 units of commercial space to anchor the revitalization of the downtown village while preserving Berwick’s rural, small town character.
Having Aroma Joe’s at the development “enhances the offerings at the Edge and contributes to the placemaking onsite,” said Great Falls Construction's owner, Jon Smith.
The former Prime Tanning site housed various manufacturing operations and dates back to 1877. Prime Tanning closed the leather making mill in 2008 and filed for bankruptcy.
In 2014, a group called Envision Berwick developed a plan that called for a community-centered, walkable downtown. In 2016, Berwick worked with the Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission to clean the site as part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s brownfields environmental clean up program.
Aroma Joe’s was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in South Portland, with 101 locations in Maine and beyond.
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