The couple, who moved to Ellsworth from Alexandria, Va., in March, performed a pandemic pivot from doing what they love — roasting coffee and selling craft beverages — as employees to owning their own business.
“It takes time to trickle through [the supply chain] to the retail side,” Tony Bagley, manager of the Viking Lumber store in Hancock, said. Yet, the demand remains high, he added. “Money is cheap right now in terms of building and mortgages. But at some point, if the prices don’t come back down to reality, that will have a negative effect.”
Owner Sarah Bowden said the pandemic played a role in the decision to go bigger and broader, especially in how the community supported Sugar Mags when the lockdown began.
The water is heated to skin temperature and filtration replaces the water between clients, who each are given two hours in the self enclosed sitting area, pod and shower and restroom “for a complete and utter unplugging of yourself,” Ingraham said.
Storage units seem to be in demand both from people who need them and people who want to develop them. That demand “surely has a relationship to the housing crisis,” City Planner Elena Piekut said.
The glampground has 63 tents, some of which are staggered in an open field with a view of the bay. Other tents are nestled in the woods. There are also tiny canvas tents, called “hives,” for children.
Reusable bags will be available for sale at the registers and throughout the store. Prices for bags will start at 50 cents.
New Jersey attorney Bruce Stavitsky, representing the drug store and pharmacy at 226 High St., had argued that the city’s $3,307,300 assessment did not reflect the market value for similar free-standing commercial properties in that neighborhood and for “a very typical pharmacy.”
The extension will give residents more time to make comments while the board waits on additional information it requested from the applicant, TC Gravel LLC in Ellsworth, Planning Board Chairman Brian Abbott explained to The American.
“We have decided to take advantage of what would be another abnormal season this summer and remain closed while we work on construction,” the post reads.
“People are going to get off the plane and drive down here and want to use the Island Explorer and be told they can’t, it’s already full,” Wilson said. “That is going be, I think, a huge issue. I can’t even solve that one except to just let people know.”
If the asking price is a deterrent, the seller is also ready to lease the property. In fact, Acadia Realty Group agent Steven Shelton said 75 High Street LLC, the Maine-registered company that owns the property, prefers to lease the premises.
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