The flashing blue lights atop poles in some Maine parking lots are designed to deter criminals, but some question the balance of safety vs. privacy.
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Auburn apartments, restaurant building on Main Street moving forward
Developer Great Falls Construction expects to break ground in July with a targeted timeline for completion of 18 months.
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Barnes & Noble to open South Portland bookstore
The South Portland shop will be located at the former Bed Bath & Beyond building at 200 Running Hill Road.
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France asks retailers to alert customers to cases of ‘shrinkflation’
Retailers are less excited about the new rules, saying they’ll be hard to implement and that the burden should be placed on manufacturers instead.
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Harbor Freight to bring more than 25 jobs to Oxford
The big box retailer will open its new location at Oxford Plaza later this spring.
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New managers of Freeport shopping center see opportunity to add restaurants, breweries
The investors who have been behind Freeport Village Station since it opened in 2009 have hired a Boston-based real estate management group to oversee the large downtown shopping center after they purchased the property for $20 million.
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Entire block of downtown Freeport to be auctioned after developer breaches mortgage
The Freeport Village Station retail center, which is valued at $32.5 million and includes an L.L.Bean outlet, is scheduled to be auctioned Wednesday as part of a foreclosure.
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Maine’s only Macy’s will be spared from nationwide cuts
The department store that anchors The Maine Mall in South Portland will not be among the 150 locations the company plans to close over the next 3 years, officials said.
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Macy’s to close 150 stores as sales decline and company pivots to luxury
The remaining stores will receive upgrades and the company says it will open 15 Bloomingdale’s and 30 of its Blue Mercury cosmetics locations. It is unclear whether the company’s only store in Maine will be impacted.
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U.S. sues to block major grocery merger that would affect Shaw’s supermarkets
The lawsuit could scuttle Kroger’s $24.6 billion planned takeover of Albertsons, which owns 19 Shaw’s supermarkets in Maine.