April 20, 2020 EditionEdition

Harrington, a serial entrepreneur whose companies in southern Maine have a workforce of 800, talked with Mainebiz about how the global health crisis is affecting business, how they've pivoted in response, and what may lie ahead.

Despite the public health crisis, Maine's construction companies — considered essential businesses — continue to do work the state relies upon, in communities including Yarmouth, Portland, Freeport and Cumberland Foreside.

A contributor from the Association for Consulting Expertise advises a reader on how to deal with a challenge more and more businesses are facing in the midst of global health crisis — financial crisis.

Unemployment claims have skyrocketed. Various industries are hanging on by a thread, while manufacturers and a select...

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New housing in southern Maine's once-red-hot market has been delayed, sometimes as a result of supply shortages or financing difficulties. But developers are also expressing optimism, saying the area — and the state in general — will push through the crisis.

Maine architecture firms large and small are adapting to the new normal, changing the way they collaborate and do business. They're also anticipating changes in what their clients demand as a result the public health crisis.

Maine's real estate brokers, buyers and sellers are all still doing business, although with new expectations and new ways of working together. But it's unclear what the future holds for the industry.