Acadian-Perkins Plaza development going up

A 36,000-square-foot development at the corner of Acadian Thruway and Perkins Road is beginning to come out of the ground 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 has filled with 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 in the 10 or so days since large steel beams were erected on-site. “My phone has been ringing off the hook since then,” he says. Claitor says his general contractor on the project, Chris Town, is on pace to have the shell of the development 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.” Claitor says 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