From downtown Brunswick to downtown Rockport, new projects are going up along the Maine coast. But there’s been other work recently, too, including an aquaponics facility and a huge, canal-like structure at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
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Two significant projects are underway in downtowns in Brunswick and Rockport. In Brunswick, DeStefano & Associates has much of the framing and sheathing up on a three-story mixed-use building. The site will include ground-floor retail and 16 apartments on upper floors. The space will include a glassed-in porch and three-season patio.
It’s in the Tontine Mall at 149 Maine St. The mall’s owner is Dan Catlin of Commercial Properties Inc.
The residences will be one- and two-bedroom apartments. The space includes 10,000 square feet of retail. Boulos is representing the retail space.
Wild Oats Bakery & Cafe moved out of the mall last year, and is now at Brunswick Landing. Remaining tenants include Eveningstar Cinema, Elizabeth Nails and Spa, Edward Jones and Homes and Harbor.
Projects around the state
In Rockport, Maine Coast Construction Co. has the steel up on a four-story boutique hotel at 20 Central St., downtown. The hotel will have 26 rooms. The developers, who are incorporated under 20 Central Street LLC, are Stuart, Marianne and Tyler Smith, owners of Maine Sport Outfitters.
Fairfield-based Sheridan Construction will manage construction of Thomas College’s new 18,000-square-foot athletic complex. Farmington-based E.L. Vining & Son Inc. will provide backup help. SMRT Architects & Engineers handled the design.
Springworks, which claims to be New England’s largest aquaponics grower, will add four greenhouses to the three now on the 168-acre farm, bringing the total greenhouse space at the farm to nearly 500,000 square feet by 2026. Topsham-based Priority Real Estate Group has finished one of five planned greenhouses.
Saco-based PM Construction Co. finished the Hannaford store at Cooks Corner in Brunswick. The store opened June 19.
Cianbro, Maine’s largest construction firm, finished a 5,000-ton concrete entrance structure for the Superflood Basin Project at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. The massive structure was visible from many points on the waterfront. The project took 18 months and was completed at Ricker’s Wharf in Portland, then moved by barge down the Fore River, into Casco Bay and south along the coast to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
