Vertical Harvest’s growing facility has an urban footprint of just one-half of an acre, but can produce a yield equivalent to 250 rural acres of the same crop.
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Business news and information from the Portland Press Herald.
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Northern Light Health announces it will cut 3% of its workforce
The second-largest health care system in Maine has suffered from financial difficulties during the past few years.
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Portland City Council approves levying fines on owners of vacant commercial properties
The ordinance was proposed after months of complaints from business owners and residents regarding the state of the Congress Street corridor. But property owners can avoid fines if they agree to let the city install art in their vacant storefronts.
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King’s Head Pub opens Freeport location
The gastropub replaces the Jameson Tavern on Main Street.
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Henny’s restaurant opens in Portland’s West End
The breakfast and lunch spot is open seven days a week.
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South Portland’s Fork Food Lab keeps the Maine food scene forever fresh
We look at four new food businesses coming out of the popular incubator and shared kitchen space.
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Bay Bowls set to open Freeport location this fall
The company aims to open its fourth shop, this one at 32 Main St., by October.
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Portland could levy fines on commercial property owners who leave spaces vacant
The City Council is set to vote Wednesday on a proposed ordinance that would penalize owners whose spaces remain vacant for 3 months or more.
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Immigrant owners are preserving Maine’s variety stores and markets
New Mainers are buying and operating village markets and variety stores across the state, often in rural areas where they are preserving the only retail access to gas, groceries and other necessities for miles around.
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Immigrant owners are preserving Maine’s variety stores and markets
New Mainers are buying and operating village markets and variety stores across the state, often in rural areas where they are preserving the only retail access to gas, groceries and other necessities for miles around.