One of our longest-standing tenants, Wigon Office Supply, will be closing its doors this fall. Since opening in 1932, Wigon Office Supply has been a familiar and beloved presence on Free Street for 94 years. In coordination with owner Sally…
An early childhood special education preschool has leased 10,000 square feet in the John Roberts Road office park in South Portland from J.B. Brown & Sons. Founders and educators Nicole Heal and Ashley St. John said Skills for Life will have space…
Tuck O’Brien Named President & CEO Portland, Maine — J. B. Brown & Sons today announced the appointment of Stuart“Tuck” O’Brien as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective July 1, 2026.O’Brien succeeds Vin Veroneau, who has served as President and…
The complex, at Westbrook Arterial and Larrabee Road, would include 100 units of affordable housing. A big apartment complex neighboring Rock Row and aimed at reducing the housing shortage in Westbrook could begin construction as early as next year, but…
Portland, ME After a decade of planning, the new 68,000 s/f Department of Veterans Affairs’ Maine Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC), located on West Commercial St., was completed in December 2021 and opened its doors in February 2022. The facility will…
Behind-the-scenes sleuthing helped Portland real estate firm J.B. Brown & Sons find an off-market deal with a 200,000-square-foot industrial distribution facility in Bangor. Some behind-the-scenes sleuthing allowed the Portland commercial real estate and asset management firm J.B. Brown & Sons…
Abbott Laboratories already has a temporary engineering office on site at the former location of Bottomline Technologies in South Portland. Photo / William Hall By William Hall Abbott Laboratories, the multinational company that makes COVID-19 diagnostic tests in Scarborough and…
PORTLAND, Maine — A lot of history has happened since Europeans first started settling the peninsula in the 1630s. In the past 400 years or so, battles were won and lost, fortunes made and obliterated, lives built and rebuilt. In…
Courtesy / Porta & Co.133 First Park Drive in Oakland attracted national interest when it went on the market through a call for offers procedure. By Laurie Schreiber A high-quality property in Oakland hit all the right marks to attract…
One of the increasingly rare infill lots in downtown Portland is now under development, as workers broke ground last week for construction of a six-story mixed-use building at 40 Free St. Plans call for the 50,000-square-foot structure to include 51…