Several high-profile projects in Portland are getting higher, with girders going up at sites including the future East End home of Sun Life Financial. Rockland-based Penobscot Co. is busy in Falmouth and elsewhere.
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Consigli Construction has the steel work up for the Sun Life Financial building on the former Portland Co. site on Portland’s East End.
Sun Life plans to move into the building by next year. Sun Life’s FullscopeRMS subsidiary will occupy 77,000 square feet at the site. The developer is Portland Foreside Development Co.
The building will have space for other office tenants as well as ground-floor retail and restaurants.Â
The site is at 58 Fore St. in the thick of recent development, with WEX Inc. headquartered next door and the future headquarters of Covetrus just up the hill. Northeastern University’s Roux Institute is also next door. Roux Institute has partnered with Sun Life to train potential employees in data science.
The teams at FullscopeRMS offer customized, turnkey insurance and risk-management capabilities for disability, life, voluntary and medical stop-loss products to more than two dozen insurance and health plan partners.
A roundup of construction projects underway
PC Construction is doing site work on the new University of Southern Maine building at Bedford and Durham streets. Portland Commons will be 218,000 square feet and have capacity for 580 beds, including a mix of single-occupancy rooms, studio apartments and larger apartments with multiple bedrooms and bathrooms.
In Falmouth, the Penobscot Co. has the steel up at the free-standing “pad” development at Falmouth Shopping Center on U.S. Route 1. The four-story, mixed-use building will feature ground-floor retail and office and/or professional space on the upper floors. Rockland-based Penobscot Co., founded in 1970, has a wide range of Maine projects in its portfolio, including the Jackson Laboratory vivarium in Ellsworth, the Army National Guard administration building in Bangor, Fire Station No. 3 in Augusta, the Pen Bay Professional Park in Rockland and a host of renovation projects around the state.
Sargent Corp., which is based in Stillwater, was the low bidder to take on construction of the so-called Back Cove West Storage Conduit in Portland. Sargent won the $27 million job in December, and started preliminary work in March. Construction is expected to start June 1.
Optimum Construction is on the home stretch of its remake of a former tanning center into a business center for Skowhegan Savings Bank, on Marginal Way in Portland. SMRT was the architect on the project.
