Construction starts soon!
We’ve been very busy building new taxable value in Maine cities and towns, and now comes this news --- the largest building in the last 25 years on Portland’s peninsula has been approved by the Portland planning board. It’s a 170,000 square foot facility that will serve as national headquarters for Vets First Choice, a company formed in 2010 that is now one of the country’s fastest-growing provider of pharmacy services for animal care. We are developing this facility on Mountfort Street, along with our partners AlliedCook Construction, architect David Lloyd and CBRE/The Boulos Co.
We absolutely must give a special tip of the cap to the planning board, and especially to Lucas Anthony with Gorrill Palmer, the civil engineers on the project who prepared this extremely complex proposal for planning board review. This is by far one of the largest mixed-use real estate projects to be built in Portland, Maine for several decades. The level of detail and professionalism those folks brought to the preparation and review process is impossible to over-state. No doubt the taxpayers of Portland are very pleased that such distinguished expertise is helping to grow the tax base in Maine’s largest city.
“We expect to add more than 1,000 new high-quality jobs in southern Maine and believe this downtown location will be critical towards attracting world class talent.”
We expect construction to start soon. A pharmacy and fulfillment center should be finished by October of next year, then office space, labs and other commercial space should be ready by the end of April, 2020. As a result of this project, Vets First Choice expects to be able to create hundreds of new professional jobs for Maine residents.
If you are just learning about Bateman Partners, we welcome you to our new web site. Since 1979 our partners are responsible for more than a quarter of a billion dollars in high quality development projects, in Maine and New Hampshire. Here’s a list if you’d like to take a look.
