ROCKLAND, Maine — Linda Bean, who has become a major player in the lobster industry, has purchased an 11,000-square-foot building from a Canadian company that had planned to convert the facility into a lobster processing plant.
Rather than using the Rockland building for processing lobsters, however, Bean said Thursday that it will be used for storage of lobsters, grading the crustaceans and distribution.
Bean already owns and operates a 23,000-square-foot lobster processing plant on Merrill Drive which is located in the same Rockland Industrial Park as the property she just bought at 1 Gordon Drive. She also owns a 12,000-square-foot building at 29 Gordon Drive which is used for lobster storage.
Bean, through her company Amalgamated Enterprises LLC, purchased the 1 Gordon Drive property on April 26. The building, located on 1.6 acres in the industrial park, was the former site of the printing plant for Courier Publications and later VillageSoup.
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