Scarborough, ME

Some renderings of the next phase of the "Town Center" which will include a Market Basket, general retail and a 5-story mixed-use building with 76 apartments

Plus, a lot of parking 😵‍💫

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On the one hand, yes, it's a strip mall with a 5-story apartment building on one side. Hopefully the rents will be more affordable to compensate all those residents whose units are going to look out on a scorched field of asphalt with carbon monoxide and ozone and black soot wafting through their windows.

On the other hand, imagine how many other strip malls (looking at you, Rock Row) could be vastly improved if they tore up 60 of their least-used parking spaces and built 76 apartments in their place?
 
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That's gross. The one interesting thing is the pass through under the apartments.
 
Is there a locator map to better show where on the property that development is going to be?
 
Here's a site overview map from https://www.thedowns.com/work. It's dated from April 2024 and is slightly different from what's being proposed now, but the Market Basket building is shown on here, below/left of the buildings labelled "49" and "50".

One thing to keep in mind is that the renderings above don't show the rest of the planned "town center." This new mixed-use building isn't going to be all alone; it's going to face a new Main Street where several other mixed-use 5-over-1 buildings are being built and planned, and the new Market Basket is going to be within walking distance of the rest of the neighborhood.

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