The Downs gets green light for $70M Town Center development

The Downs in Scarborough has the green light to start construction on three commercial buildings in the Town Center with 144,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space including a Market Basket supermarket set to open in 2026. The 80,000-square-foot Market Basket, to be located at the corner of Market Street and Scarborough Downs Road, was announced last November as the Town Center’s first retail tenant and Maine’s fourth branch of the Massachusetts-based Market Basket chain. The store is projected to create 300 new jobs.