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5 days ago | 
mainebiz.biz | Laurie Schreiber
On May 8, more than 100 real estate agents from Keller Williams Maine stepped away from their daily business duties to participate in RED Day, the company’s annual day of service dedicated to “renewing, energizing and donating” in the communities they serve.
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5 days ago | 
mainebiz.biz | Laurie Schreiber
Gameday Men’s Health, a California-based franchise brand, opened its first Maine location in a 1,650-square-foot lease at 210 Western Ave. in South Portland. Cameron Foster of the Boulos Co. and Melody Allred of CARR represented the tenant, Gameday Men’s Health, and Joe Atwood of the Dunham Group represented the landlord, Rock Coast Space1 LLC. CARR, headquartered in Colorado, specializes in health care real estate.
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5 days ago | 
mainebiz.biz | Laurie Schreiber
In Maine, where more than two-thirds of the population is rural, numerous programs aim to build Maine’s lagging rural workforce, including expanded training and career advancement opportunities in the health care, dairy and forest industries. Aiming to do its part, the University of Maine has launched a program to provide providing mentoring and a support network to build the rural education workforce.
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5 days ago | 
mainebiz.biz | Laurie Schreiber
Here’s a roundup of commercial sales in Maine first published in the Tuesday Real Estate Insider during May. (The Thursday Real Estate Insider compiles real estate leases.)The information is provided by brokerages and thus does not include privately managed transactions.
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5 days ago | 
mainebiz.biz | Laurie Schreiber
Two Aroostook County hospitals are looking to improve their long-term financial stability through a collaboration agreement that could lead to a formal affiliation. The management service agreement between Northern Maine Medical Center in Fort Kent and Houlton Regional Hospital comes at a time when many hospitals are cutting services and delaying critical investments.
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1 week ago | 
mainebiz.biz | Laurie Schreiber
The developers of a proposed year-round, live-music venue in Portland’s Old Port neighborhood expect to fill a hole as a mid-size platform for local and regional artists, and even serve as a feeder to the area’s larger showcases. Josh Schlesinger leased 10,000 square feet at 144 Fore St. He and his partner in the venture, Rob Barrett of Portland architecture and construction firm Barrett Made, submitted plans to the city to build it out as Live at Madrid’s.
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2 weeks ago | 
mainebiz.biz | Laurie Schreiber
Six Maine businesses received grants of $1,000 awarded through a competitive application process to help promote and market their products and services. The grants were awarded by New Ventures Maine — a program of the University of Maine at Augusta that provides free classes and individual coaching in planning careers, starting businesses and managing money.
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2 weeks ago | 
mainebiz.biz | Laurie Schreiber
Airport upgrades are back on track at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport, thanks to the federal government’s release of $1.6 million in frozen funds that had already been awarded for the project. “The release of these funds will allow for the construction of the new hangar and related upgrades to proceed as planned — improving the airport experience for those who already use it and paving the way for passenger air service in the future,” said U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine 2nd District.
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2 weeks ago | 
mainebiz.biz | Laurie Schreiber
The developers of a proposed year-round, live-music venue in Portland’s Old Port neighborhood expect to fill a hole as a mid-size platform for local and regional artists, and even serve as a feeder to the area’s larger showcases. Josh Schlesinger leased 10,000 square feet at 144 Fore St. He and his partner in the venture, Rob Barrett of Portland architecture and construction firm Barrett Made, submitted plans to the city to build it out as Live at Madrid’s.
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2 weeks ago | 
mainebiz.biz | Laurie Schreiber
First Serve Hospitality Group Inc. in Kittery bought a Kennebunk general store called H.B. Provisions, carried out renovations and repositioned it as KPort Provisions. “It’s kind of an icon in that area,” Mary Puglese, First Serve’s director of operations, told Mainebiz. H.B. Provisions, owned by Bonnie Clement and Helen Thorgalsen and located at 15 Western Ave. in Kennebunk’s Lower Village, was a hub of the Kennebunk community for many years.
