Developing Business: Sheridan to control the structure of the snack-food generation site.

Sheridan Corp. has been called the general contractor for the $1.3 million build-out of the newest Winslow production site for Maine Clean Co., a producer of gluten-free snacks.

Maine Clean, founded as a home-based organization in 2014 by Karen Getz, has become going right through its next expansion. Most recently, it has been located in Waterville.

Overall, the company is investing $2.4 million to boost its production capacity by tenfold and multiple its workforce.

That uses annual national growth. Maine Clean today distributes nationally through Providence, R.I.-based United Natural Meals Inc. (NYSE: UNFI), which statements to be the biggest freely traded wholesale provider of health and specialty meals in North America, and Napierville, Ill.-based KeHE Distributors, which has 16 circulation centers in North America.

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LaJoie Bros is finishing up a new site for Vivid Cloud at Brunswick Landing.

Incidentally, the three leaders of Maine Clean — Karen and Charlie Getz and Jordan Ross — were called Business Leaders of the Year by Mainebiz in 2024.

Expansion plans were first created in 2020. The company seemed for a brand new center that would enable development and was near Waterville. Among Maine Crisp’s investors obtained 20 Lithgow St. in Winslow at the end of 2020 and is managing renovations and the fit-up.

Architect John Shipsky, located in Waterville, drafted plans to repurpose the extensive, aging development into a 100% gluten-free-certified site for production, warehousing, and retail.

Fairfield-based Sheridan was employed for the fit-out.

“It indicates a good deal to Sheridan to participate in that challenge, being able to support firms succeed and build jobs in main Maine, where most of our employees live, is a win-win for all of us,” claims Dan Wildes, president of Sheridan Construction. “We has effectively completed a large number of food-processing projects and understands food safety needs a lot better than most. A task that’s near to house is essential as we keep our experienced employees and build our team.”

Maine Clean is anticipated to resource higher volumes of materials from Maine suppliers with the added capacity.

It presently works with the Bouchard Family Farm in Fort Kent to have buckwheat and gets maple syrup from Spring Break Maple Farms in Smyrna.

“The brand new center may be the catalyst for Maine Crisp’s evolution from a specialty fresh maker to a national model distinguished for its knowledge and development in value-added buckwheat items,” claims Jordan Ross, chairperson of Maine Crisp. “We’re thrilled to be able to continue our development in Maine, using its agricultural bounty and competent workforce which can be critical materials to our success.”

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LaJoie Bros., an Augusta contractor, is concluding up a brand new Brunswick Landing site for Vibrant Cloud, a Brunswick IT firm.

Aceto Earthworks, a Lewiston company, is doing site work on the site of what will be an Aroma Joe’s coffee shop in Topsham.

A.R. Developing Co., a Pennsylvania builder, got approval to build a 202-unit house complex at 305 Tub Street in Brunswick on a vacant parcel opposite Mid Shore Hospital.

In Freeport, the 144-unit Residences at Crosstree is nearing completion. The complex was a collaboration between West Hartford, Conn.-based Simon Konover Co., Providence, R.I.-based KGI Qualities LLC, and Boston-based Devine Capital LLC.