212 Maine Street - Brunswick, ME

Mixed-Use

212 Maine Street

Form + Place’s work with Black Forest Ventures focused on the repositioning of the 212 Maine Street site in Brunswick, ME, which was home to a dilapidated, one-story retail block. This key site linking the Bowdoin College campus and downtown was never redeveloped as part of the 2006 Form + Place masterplan for the station area – a plan that was designed to accommodate a new stop on the Amtrak Downeaster line. As part of the original TOD masterplan implementation effort, JHR Development built a mixed-use project with retail, office, multi-family residential and the 60-key Brunswick Inn, which anchors the Maine Street frontage. Black Forest Ventures, current owners of the hotel, asked Form + Place to explore a number of site plan alternatives for the adjacent 212 Maine Street site, hoping to provide expanded amenity space for the hotel and tavern, as well as potential usable open space for the Town. An extensive permitting process included securing approvals from the Brunswick Village Review Board for the demolition of the retail block. The resulting open space has created welcomed site lines to the hotel and provided much-needed visual connectivity into the Brunswick Station development for pedestrians walking along Maine Street. The site holds enormous potential for a phase 2 redevelopment associated with the hotel.