From condos to a car wash, construction projects — especially in the southern part of the state — are nearing completion.
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With a relatively mild winter so far, a number of ongoing construction projects have made good headway in recent months.
DeStefano & Associates is moving forward on Hammond House, which will be condos of one to three bedrooms at the corner of Hammond and Fox streets in Portland’s East Bayside neighborhood. The sheathing is up and interior work is starting. Working with Portsmouth, N.H.-based DeStefano is Ryan Senatore Architecture and Acorn Engineering. Vitalius Real Estate is handling condo sales.
Optimum Construction, of Portland, is outfitting a former indoor-tanning site into its Portland Business Center, on Marginal Way at Diamond Street in East Bayside. Portland-based SMRT handled architecture and engineering.
Allied/Cook Construction, which is based in Scarborough, has the steel work up for the new Covetrus headquarters on Portland’s East End.
Hebert Construction, which is based in Lewiston, has adjacent projects underway on Portland’s East End. It’s doing sitework on 170 Fore, a seven-story, 41,861-square-foot office building with ground-floor retail. On an adjacent parcel, Hebert is building Five India, a 24-unit apartment. Both projects are being developed by Essex North Portland LLC, which is led by Ara Aftandilian. Essex North also developed the AC Hotel and Twenty Thames; all four buildings will be on the same block. A key subcontractor on the project is Auburn-based Nason Mechanical Systems.
Two hotels on Commercial Street are heading toward the final stages of development. Pittsfield-based Cianbro is the general contractor for Fathom Cos.’s Canopy by Hilton-branded hotel, at 1 Center St. Opechee Construction Co., of Belmont, N.H., is the general contractor for the Aloft Hotel, the former Rufus Deering site.
Other projects underway
PM Construction is making headway on the Hannaford Supermarket in Cooks Corner, Brunswick. A third-quarter 2021 opening is planned.
Landry/French Construction is finishing up the Yarmouth Public Safety complex, which will house fire, police and EMT services.
Zachau Construction is making headway on the rebuild of the L.L.Bean headquarters in Freeport, with the building gutted down to the steel.
Doten Construction is moving quickly with the construction of the Freeport Car Wash on U.S. Route 1.
