Acadian-Perkins Plaza development breaks ground

Published Mar 13, 2012 at 9:03 am (Updated Mar 13, 2012)

A 36,000-square-foot development at the corner of Acadian Thruway and Perkins Road is beginning to take shape and is on schedule for completion sometime in midsummer, says co-owner and property manager Jon Claitor. Acadian-Perkins Plaza is essentially a large addition to a small retail strip center that was built last year in the space formerly home to The Caterie, which burned down on New Year's Day 2010. That development is full: home to an AT&T Store and Burgersmith on the ground floor and office spaces on the second floor. The new development will feature 18,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor, and the same amount of office space on the second floor. Claitor says he's had a lot of interest from national retailers and restaurants thus far, especially since large steel beams were recently erected on-site. "My phone has been ringing off the hook," he says. Chris Town, general contractor on the project, tells Claitor the shell of the development should be complete by May 15. "We'll then have the office spaces complete by June 15 to July 1, and hopefully we'll have some retailers in there by then, too," he says, adding negotiations are still ongoing to land a grocery store in the former CVS location that will also neighbor the new development to the south. See a rendering of the development here. —Steve Sanoski