Crews set up their construction machinery on Wednesday for Friday’s groundbreaking ceremony at the recently cleared site of the Innovation District at The Downs in Scarborough. The developers of a new mixed-use complex in Scarborough broke ground on the commercial center of the sprawling project Friday. The Downs’ Innovation […]

This office building at 17-19 Mollison Way in Lewiston is the latest in Maine to hit the auction block at online auctioneer Ten-X. The online auction is Sept. 23-25, 2019. A Lewiston office building will go up for sale in an online auction by the same auctioneer that sold […]

A former wood products factory in Oxford is viewed by its buyers as a great site for their transportation company. But a fair amount of clean-up at the site will have to be completed first. RideSource Inc. purchased a 68,175-square-foot light manufacturing complex on 15 acres, at 822 Main […]

A groundbreaking ceremony was held Monday for a 102-room “brewtel” that will be part of the 211,000-square-foot Bateman Partners development in the city’s East End. The focus Monday was the start of construction for the six-story, 72,797-square-foot Cambria Portland Hotel, which is being developed in partnership with Shipyard Brewing […]

GO Lab Inc., the Belfast building products manufacturer that in April announced its intent to buy a defunct paper mill in Madison, has completed the purchase. In a news release Tuesday, the company said it has closed on the 600,000-square-foot Madison Paper Industries mill, shuttered since 2016. The property […]

Plans for Maine’s first mixed-use business park in 25 years are progressing quickly, with only seven lots still up for grabs inside The Downs in Scarborough. Known as the Innovation District, the 154-acre subdivision will be a core part of a multi-purpose development that will also include a residential […]

A portfolio of six downtown Lewiston properties has been sold for $6.39 million. Little Canada LLC, controlled by Matt Hancock, bought the properties at 500 Canal St. from Franklin Properties and Franklin Property Trust, according to a news release Wednesday morning. The portfolio comprises three fully-leased Class A office […]

North River Co., the new owner of the Lockwood Mill in Waterville, considers the building a diamond in the rough — it’s worse for wear after years of vacancy, but it’s a classic 19th-century mill with soaring ceilings and windows, 3-foot brick walls and pine floors. “They don’t build […]

A pair of veterinarians looking to form their own practice have found what they consider the perfect site, close to the region’s vet-focused industries and in a former medical office on the picturesque Back Cove. Veterinarians Nicole and Matthew Fortin plan to open their practice, Back Cove Animal Hospital […]

The largely empty 214,900-square-foot Turnpike Mall has been sold to a New York real estate development firm that specializes in acquisition of retail and office buildings. The $3.2 million sale closed in May, according to The Boulos Co.’s website, after being approved by a federal court in March. The […]

Developer Paul Boghossian holds a drawing of the Lockwood Mills complex in Waterville, including CF Hathaway Co. mill, in a presentation to members of the Waterville Rotary Club in 2008. Tuesday it was announced that he sold the remaining two Lockwood mills to the North River Company, the current […]

Two out-of-state furniture chains are opening stores in Greater Portland. Here is a living room display from the Jordan’s Furniture store in Reading, Massachusetts, one of the two chains coming to Maine. The other, Bernie & Phyl’s, opens in the former Toys R Us space Monday. Well-heeled home buyers […]