Linda Bean buying key Freeport property
<strong>FREEPORT</strong> — Maine entrepreneur Linda Bean has bought the former Bath & Body Works building across from the L.L. Bean flagship store in Freeport and plans to open a year-round destination restaurant that features local foods.<br /> <br /> The project will mark an expansion of Linda Bean’s Perfect Maine franchise, which includes cafes in Camden, Port Clyde, Portland and Delray Beach, Fla., lobster wharves in midcoast Maine and a processing plant in Rockland.<br /> <br /> The 7,600-square-foot brick building is on the corner of M...