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V O L . X X V I I N O. I I I F E B R UA R Y 8 , 2 0 2 1 4 PUBLISHER Donna Brassard EDITOR Peter Van Allen DIGITAL EDITOR William Hall SENIOR WRITER Renee Cordes SENIOR WRITER Maureen Milliken SENIOR WRITER Laurie Schreiber ADVERTISING SALES DIRECTOR Andrea Tetzlaff SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGER Ken Hanson SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGER Betsy VanderPloeg MARKETING/OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Alison Nason CONTRIBUTING WRITER Mark Jeanneret, Jim Milliken, Carrie Yardley RESEARCH DIRECTOR Timothy Doyle RESEARCH ASSISTANT Heide Martin ART DIRECTOR Matt Selva HOSPITALITY EMERITUS Zoey A division of New England Business Media LLC C E O Peter Stanton PRESIDENT Tom Curtin C F O / C O O Mary Rogers GROUP PUBLISHER Donna Brassard DIGITAL DIRECTOR Jan Holder C O N T E N T S Bank expansion heats up Chase's Maine rollout not the only game in town as rivals add branches Coworking at a crossroads Coworking spaces had just found their stride and then the pandemic hit 16 12 20 Commercial development in 2021 From retail reboots to 'ghost' kitchens, here's what's trending 22 The self-storage story Little glamour, but high demand, low overhead and steady returns drive the market C O M M E R C I A L D E V E L O P M E N T F O C U S I N D U S T R Y T H U M B N A I L O N PA G E 1 1 ยป DEVELOP, OWN, AND OPERATE. Helping businesses capitalize on opportunity since 1827. sbsavings.bank | (207) 284-4591 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K ai161159023019_MaineBiz Commercial Dev Ad.pdf 3 1/25/2021 10:57:12 AM Mike Pride bought and improved two self-storage facilities and is now developing 550 units in Scarborough. P H O T O / T I M G R E E N WAY P H O T O / T I M G R E E N WAY P H O T O / T I M G R E E N WAY Kelly Beecher with Booz Allen Hamilton works at the Pepperell Mill Think Tank in Biddeford 12 Maine Community Bank's $8 million future operations center in Westbrook 16 22