Your Next Location
Is Ready for You.
Your business won’t be hidden away at FirstPark. More than 19,000 vehicles travel past the FirstPark I-95 exit every day, with MaineDOT recording 18,540 vehicles west of the Park and 20,140 east of it. And with I-95 just 0.2 miles away, you’re positioned for visibility and connectivity.
Your Customers Are Already Here
FirstPark is more than a place where people work—it’s a growing business community with employees, customers, visitors, and daily traffic already coming through the Park. We’re looking for businesses that can serve the people who are here every day and the communities around us, from cafés, restaurants, and childcare to pet care, housing, and other everyday services.
The demand is here. The opportunity is yours.
The working parents are already here. Their kids aren’t.
FirstPark is home to a growing community of more than 600 employees working across healthcare, technology, finance, telecommunications, and other professional industries. For a childcare provider, that creates a meaningful opportunity to serve working parents whose daily routines already bring them to FirstPark.
A conveniently located, licensed childcare center could become an important part of the FirstPark community while building its business around an established and consistent customer base. Parents value convenience, quality, and the ability to drop off their children close to where they work—making on-site or nearby childcare a compelling opportunity for the right operator.
With a growing employment base, convenient access from I-95, and families traveling to FirstPark from throughout the region, a childcare facility here would have the opportunity to serve not only FirstPark employees but working families throughout central Maine.
- 600+ employees across FirstPark’s growing employer base — not dependent on any single company
- No zoning restrictions on commercial uses at FirstPark
- Fully permitted lots from 7 to 28 acres — right-sized for a purpose-built facility
- 19,000+ people drive by the park exit daily, per MaineDOT, making the location easy for families coming from Bangor, Waterville, Augusta, and beyond
600+ employees drive past your future front door every morning.
The people who work at FirstPark have dogs. They need somewhere to drop them off on the way in — right now, that means a separate stop before work. A doggie daycare at FirstPark could make morning drop-off just a two-minute detour — and create a loyalty that’s almost impossible to replicate.
Pet care is a high-frequency, high-loyalty business. Customers who find a great doggie daycare close to work tend to use it every day they’re in the office. With 600+ daily employees across a range of employers, you’re not building a customer base — you’re inheriting one.
FirstPark’s open campus — with sidewalks connecting every lot — means your facility would be walkable from every employer on site, no matter where in the park someone works.
- 600+ daily on-site employees — a captive, recurring customer pool
- 19,000+ people drive by the park exit daily, per MaineDOT
- Walkable campus with paved sidewalks connecting every lot
- No zoning restrictions on most commercial uses
- Available lots with room for outdoor runs and play areas
- Growing campus — new tenants mean new customers
There is no lunch option at FirstPark. That’s your opening.
FirstPark sees more than 19,000 people drive by the park exit every day — including 600+ employees who work here — and there is no on-site lunch option. There is a clear opportunity for a café, restaurant, or other food establishment to serve a built-in customer base.
The opportunity goes well beyond lunch. Morning coffee, grab-and-go breakfast and meals, catering for meetings and events, and convenient dining for employees and visitors all create multiple revenue opportunities throughout the day.
For the right restaurant or café entrepreneur, this is an opportunity to build a business around customers who are already here—and looking for convenient options close to where they work.
- No food service currently on campus — zero direct competition
- 19,000+ people drive by the park exit daily, per MaineDOT
- 600+ employees with scheduled breaks and consistent hours. And the campus is growing.
- Meeting and event catering potential with multiple professional employers on campus and nearby
- Easy access for regional lunch traffic beyond the park itself
A built-in market. A lower-risk opportunity.
600+ people commute to FirstPark. Some of them would rather just walk.
Housing options near major employment centers is one of the most consistent needs in Maine economic development — and FirstPark offers something many residential developments can’t: a built-in customer base from day one. More than 600 people currently work at FirstPark, including more than 495 employees at T-Mobile, and the campus continues to grow. There is already strong demand for convenient 1- and 2-bedroom apartments and condominiums close to where people work. For a developer, that means the opportunity is grounded in an existing market — not a speculative future market.
FirstPark offers exceptional visibility and accessibility. More than 17,000 vehicles travel past the I-95 exit serving FirstPark every day, and the Park is just 0.2 miles from the interstate. Employees, customers, visitors, and commuters are already traveling to and through this location every day. That combination of established employment, daily traffic, and convenient interstate access creates a strong foundation for residential development and reduces the risk that comes with having to build demand from scratch.
For developers, FirstPark is designed to make projects easier to move forward. KRDA and its 24 member communities are committed to attracting investment and are developer-friendly partners. Fully permitted lots, underground infrastructure, and a streamlined environment provide the foundation for development. We’re ready to work with developers who see the opportunity to bring much-needed housing to a growing business community.
The workforce is here. The traffic is here. The demand is here. Now we’re looking for the right development partner to be here too.
- 600+ employees currently working at FirstPark — a built-in demand base for workforce housing
- $88,742 average Kennebec County income
- Growing campus with new employers arriving — long-term demand signal
- Fully permitted lots from 7 to 28 acres — shovel-ready, DEP and MDOT approved
- 24 member communities providing regional political and financial support for development
- I-95 corridor location with strong regional connectivity
After-work means after work. Right here.
The craft brewery and taproom landscape in central Maine is growing, but there’s a gap no one has filled: the after-work destination that’s actually at work. A brewpub at FirstPark wouldn’t be a destination people drive to — it would be where people stop on the way out.
That’s a fundamentally different business model than a downtown taproom competing for weekend foot traffic. Your Thursday afternoon regulars are the same people who walked past your front door on Monday. Your Friday happy hour doesn’t require a marketing campaign — it requires a good pour and a short walk.
FirstPark’s Foreign Trade Zone status and business-park setting also create an interesting angle for private events, corporate buyouts, and team gatherings — the kind of recurring revenue a taproom doesn’t usually get to count on.
— brewpub / taproom —
- No hospitality business currently on campus — first-mover advantage
- 800+ daily employees who end their shifts and need somewhere to go
- Corporate event potential with 16 professional tenants on campus
- No zoning restrictions on most commercial uses at FirstPark
- I-95 access and growing regional profile bring destination traffic too
The conversation starts here.
The team at FirstPark is ready to talk with you about the opportunities for your project to locate in FirstPark. Request an information packet and we will follow up personally.
207-859-9716