Lobster processing site will create up to 80 jobs to Gorham
Shucks Maine Lobster plans to build a 28,800-square-foot processing plant in Gorham, staffed by up to 80 employees.
The Current reported that Shucks owner John Hathaway got the OK from Gorham’s planning board on Monday.
“It’s a huge opportunity to expand into Gorham,” he said before Monday’s vote, the Current reported. “The Maine lobster industry is thriving.”
The site, which will be built from the ground up at 65 Olde Canal Way in a business park off Route 237, could open by May 2018, the Current’s sister publication, the American Journal, reported. About 9,500 square feet of the facility will be leased to a commercial tenant.
Shucks has another facility at its headquarters in Richmond, which it will continue to operate.
Shucks Maine Lobster started as a 20-seat, lobster-and-oyster bar in Kennebunkport, according to its web site. It now produces Marine Stewardship Council-certified sustainable Maine lobster using a high-pressure processing system that Hathaway adopted from Louisiana oyster processors.
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