Part 1: Matt Ginn, executive chef of Evo Kitchen + Bar
It was a Monday when Evo decided to close its doors March 16, 2020, the day before St. Patrick’s Day. At the time, Maine had eight confirmed cases of COVID-19.
In an attempt to curb gatherings, the city of Portland had just announced a mandated curfew for businesses ahead of the holiday. It feels like a lifetime ago, but it’s a day chef Matt Ginn, his staff, and countless others remember.
Credit: Gabrielle Mannino
Evo Kitchen + Bar Executive Chef Matt Ginn stands in one of Evo s glass chalets, which were set up to accommodate guests in the winter amid the pandemic, on Friday, April 2, 2021.
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Construction is underway on a 100,000-square-foot office complex that will bring group benefits company Sun Life Financial Inc. to Portland’s growing business district on the eastern waterfront.
Representatives of Sun Life (NYSE: SLF), developer Portland Foreside and public officials held a virtual groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday to celebrate the start of the building at 58 Fore St., on the former Portland Co. complex.
Sun Life has 500 employees at offices in Scarborough and South Portland, and will occupy about 77,000 square feet of the building. It’s expected to be complete in 2022.
The project, announced in September 2019, will ultimately also include dining, hospitality and entertainment venues, and a feature never before available to the city direct access to the waterfront through scenic public park plazas.
Sun Life and Portland Foreside break ground on new Portland waterfront development
Virtual groundbreaking video includes 3-D rendering, congratulatory messages from Gov. Mills, Sen. King, Sen. Collins, and Mayor Snyder
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WELLESLEY, Mass. and PORTLAND, Maine, Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Construction at the future site of the new Sun Life U.S. downtown Portland office has officially begun. Sun Life and subsidiary FullscopeRMS will occupy 77,000 square feet, the largest office space in what will be a new, bay-facing building that will also house other office and retail space. Portland Foreside Development Company is leading the project, which was announced last fall and is on track for completion in 2022.
Designing and constructing a building in the middle of a pandemic requires a flexible mind.
That’s what Dan Fishbein learned as developers worked on plans for the new building that his company, Sun Life Financial, will move into in two years.
A rendering of Sun Life Financial’s planned office building on the Portland waterfront.
Courtesy of Sun Life Financial
Ground was broken this week – an event that was attended virtually, of course – on a building that will house the growing benefits company and, its developer hopes, extend the Old Port eastward. It is one of the area’s first major commercial buildings to break ground since the pandemic struck.