The Town Center could have been Maine's Walnut Creek (CA)....sigh.The only problem with the Downs is that they're held to Scarborough's onerous parking minimums and the Planning Board has been unwilling to budge and allow exceptions. The "Town Center" is going to be surrounded by surface parking lots.
I'm not 100% sold on the location being on the edge of the industrial park, would have rather seen it at the Payne/Haigis intersection. Something else is going in there now, but it would have been on the back side of the "town center"This development is becoming a HUGE success because of the location, for one, and two, it's focused with housing first, not second. Rock Row has become a de facto bust because it has not. I went to the new Costco on its fringe, and it is spectacular, everything it should be, which is that all products are marked up by only 9%. This means that anything in there, of which they beat down the manufacturers to get the lowest price, will be the lowest that one can find anywhere. It has their always enjoyable tastings stations, and the ridiculously large TVs at ridiculously low prices. It's a misnomer as The Downs are actually the Ups, and it will keep going that way too.
https://www.mainebiz.biz/article/2024-forecast-the-downs-looks-to-transformative-year
It's going to be a damn car dealership....talk about a waste of prime real estate.I'm not 100% sold on the location being on the edge of the industrial park, would have rather seen it at the Payne/Haigis intersection. Something else is going in there now, but it would have been on the back side of the "town center"