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The property was on the market less than a day. The buyer is coming to retail from a 14-year career in health care technology.

The merger of two like-minded firms maintains the ‘local’ focus. Good square-footage, proximity to downtown Portland and off-street parking checked the boxes.

A couple in their early 30s, looking for an affordable lease to establish a variety store and specialty grill, jumped at the chance to buy a property, instead, when they realized the purchase price would stack up just as well — even with the renovation costs.

Eighteen months and $1 million went into the redevelopment of an early 19th-century building in the West End that was built for Prentice Mellen, who was a U.S. Senator prior to his term as Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

The company's warehouse was in the basement of a 1930s-era building for half a century. During peak times, employees had to “be creative to move stuff around.”