Cellardoor to open Thompson's Point site
Courtesy / www.thompsonspointmaine.com
A site plan of the Thompson's Point development.
Lincolnville-based Cellardoor Winery is expecting to open a location at Thompson's Point, the 30-acre former industrial site currently under development in Portland.
The Portland Press Herald reported that the winery will open a tasting room and retail space, collectively called Cellardoor at the Point, in a 5,000-square-foot space in the site's Brick South building, near the site of The Circus Conservatory of America.
Chris Thompson, the site's developer who was named as a Mainebiz Nexter last year, told the newspaper that Cellardoor's expansion makes for "a perfect fit" at Thompson's Point.
"This is building a neighborhood and if you don't get the DNA of it right from the start, it never feels like a neighborhood," Thompson said of the site's development in a Mainebiz interview last fall. "And all the [people] you want to attract to your neighborhood like the idea of what you're saying, but it doesn't feel like that. There's no fooling people. Either it feels like a real place or it doesn't."
The announcement follows news last fall that development company Forefront Partners reached a long-term agreement with the State Theatre to host outdoor concerts and other events on the edge of the site's peninsula. Thompson is a principal of that company.
Read more
Planners OK $110M Thompson’s Point master plan
Portland 'Beer Camp' expected to draw thousands
Portland developer partners with State Theatre to develop outdoor concert site
Chris Thompson moving on Portland waterfront development
Portland chef to open clam shack at Thompson's Point
Thompson's Point in Portland secures app and Web developer as first office tenant
Most Recent
Most Recent
Comments