The connector, which starts next to the mall at Exit 31A on Interstate 295, now has average daily traffic of 54,000 vehicles, according to Maine Department of Transportation. But when the Coastal Connector was built in the late 1990s for a straight shot to the coast that bypassed downtown Brunswick and Topsham, that changed. When the mall was first built, in 1986, he thought it was an awful location.
Sherman’s, which plans to open by the end of the summer, will join a who’s who of Maine family-owned businesses that includes Day’s Jewelers, shoe retailer Lamey Wellehan and Renys. That hasn’t made them change their minds, though, and the strategy, has resulted in a unique grouping of businesses that carries its own Maine brand. “We decided we wanted to provide a home for local businesses,” he says, pausing. Right away, they identified a strategy that ran counter to malls that load up on chain stores that, the conventional thinking goes, can justify higher rents. Larson and his wife June bought the shopping center, excluding the Hannaford space, in 2003. A new business, aquarium supply store Corals Unlimited, is taking Highbrow’s unit.Īnd Larson’s company, Four Js LLC, is building a standalone 1,996-square-foot building that will be occupied by Jersey Mike’s Subs.
Cannabis shop Highbrow is expanding into the building recently occupied by Ruby Tuesday. is moving to the center from Tontine Mall in Brunswick.
Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shops in April announced Topsham Fair Mall is one of three sites in its expansion this summer.
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