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“I wanted a place where I could go with my dog, let him run around and come home,” said co-owner Marissa Sterl. “I asked Brad and he said, ‘You know, this is a great idea.’”
Maine's median sales price was $418,000 for the rolling quarter ended Aug. 31, but it would be harder to find a house in that range in Cumberland, York, or Lincoln counties.
“If you go to the Philippines and hang out with families, often you will find a giant table full of different kinds of food, and people will just eat it all together. It's that kind of concept, but in a bowl,” said one of the four owners.
The office adds to locations in Falmouth, Portland, Kennebunk, Cape Elizabeth, Brunswick, Belgrade, Waterville and Bar Harbor.
The Greater Portland Council of Governments is making $3.9 million in funds available to transform five properties in Portland and Westbrook — including housing developments, a hotel and a child care center.
“I think this will transform our downtown in a positive way,” said one speaker. Another countered: “I think it’s an eyesore."
The project broke ground as a condominium development in 2022 and converted to rental apartments in 2024.
Mölnlycke Health Care, which makes bandages and wound dressings used in hospitals and acute care facilities, expects to complete the 78,000-square-foot factory expansion at the Brunswick Landing industrial park in 2027.
The ordinance was intended to stabilize housing costs. But it’s also shifting millions of dollars in property taxes onto other property owners, the report says.
The Cross Insurance Arena has been home to professional hockey since it opened in 1977, hosting the original Mariners until 1992, then the Portland Pirates, then the current Mariners since 2018.
The facility is named for Town & Country Federal Credit Union, which provided $750,000 in funding.
A proposal up for discussion at Tuesday's Planning Board meeting would raise the fee charged to developers who choose not to build affordable renting housing in the city to $9,520 per guest room.
A real estate title and law firm based in Bedford, N.H., has opened an office in South Portland.
Some 600 lots of art and furnishings are to be sold in an auction before the historic home changes hands for the first time in 26 years.
Housing solutions are the focus of the organization’s half-day fall conference, scheduled for Oct. 23 at Hannaford Hall on the University of Southern Maine’s Portland campus.
Mayhem Rage Rooms LLC leased 3,128 square feet of retail space from RD 65 Hanover LLC. Peter Gwilym of Porta & Co. brokered the deal.