🔒Building Business: The Downs inks deal for build-to-suit space in Innovation District

Risbara Brothers Construction will manage construction of a 25,000-square-foot site for a plumbing-and-HVAC company’s new home in the Downs in Scarborough. Pine State Services has outgrown its space in Westbrook. Its new headquarters in the Innovation District at the Downs will allow for projected growth. The building’s footprint will be nearly double what the company has now. Completion is expected by May. Pine State Services was represented by Cushman & Wakefield of Dallas, and Porta & Co.’s Vince Ciampi. Jonathan Rizzo of the Boulos Co. assisted the landlord, Ventinove Holdings LLC, in the transaction.

Projects in the works

• PM Construction Co., of Saco, has two affordable housing projects underway in Biddeford. Adams Point, which is new construction, will be 43,910 square feet and have 39 apartments. The project team includes Southern Maine Affordable Housing, South Portland Housing Development Corp., CHA Consulting, Oak Point Associates and MaineHousing.
• Elsewhere in Biddeford, PM is renovating 36 existing apartment units at Berry Park. Upgrades are being done to exterior and interior and will include energy efficiency improvements. The project team is made up of Northland Enterprises, Archetype Architects, Terradyn Consultants and MaineHousing.
• Penobscot General Contractors, of Falmouth, is coming down the home stretch of 45 Dougherty in Portland. The building will have 63 apartments ranging from one- to three-bedrooms. Completion by fall is expected. The developer is Portland-based Szanton Co. Archetype Architects, of Portland, handled design.
• Developers Collaborative, of Portland, is redeveloping 509 Forest St. as Rumery Lofts, which will have rental units ranging from studio apartments to two-bedroom spaces. There will also be 12,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space. The architect is Invivid Architects, of Portland. Completion is expected by June.
• Winter Holben, a Kittery architecture firm, handled design for the new East Coast Cannabis site in Eliot. The facility will include a storefront, cultivation center and manufacturing area.
• Patco Construction, of Sanford, managed construction of a 49,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center at 955 Portland Road in Saco. The tenant will be Pack Edge Inc., a packaging company. The developer was Northland Enterprises, of Portland.