Their initial proposal was for a wine bar. So city officials expressed enthusiasm for the proposal when Bass and Parkhurst offered to redevelop the building, which was within the footprint of the city's Mill Park, but has since been broken out of that property. In 2018 the city sought proposals to redevelop the building but received no interest. City officials sought to have the building redeveloped, from its most recent use as storage by the city. The business partners bought the long-vacant building, which once served as the mill's powerhouse, from the city for $1 in April. Toppings included peanut butter or almond butter with smashed raspberries, sea salt and a honey drizzle, as well as lox, or salmon, and a breakfast sandwich with egg, cheese and pastrami. "That is really good - it's like dessert, for breakfast," one of the glass workers, Nolan Brann of Augusta, said of the bagel he tried with almond butter. She wants their bagels to have a good crunch on the outside, to not be too dense, with air pockets in the dough and have "a little bit of chew, but not too much" to their inside. She said the bagels they'll sell will be kind of a combination of different styles, melding New York- and Montreal-style bagels into "A Maine thing," she said. Holt-Moseson said she thought they could have risen a little more, but they weren't bad. When we're looking at Sand Hill, we're looking up the hill, and hoping to have customers walking there, feeling like it is a part of their community."īass and the workers from the glass company founded by Tobias Parkhurst's father, Richard, said the bagels were great. We want to be the thing that connects the residential neighborhood of Sand Hill to the commercial area of Augusta. "In the same way that Cushnoc and State Lunch have become woven into the fabric of downtown, we'd like to be woven into the fabric of the hill. "We don't want to be separate from Sand Hill and don't want to be separate from Mill Park we want to be part of that community," said Tobias Parkhurst, co-owner of the new restaurant, with local attorney James Bass, who are also partners in two successful downtown Augusta restaurants, Cushnoc Brewing Co. That history will be woven into the identity of the new bagel shop, they say. hope to open next spring in the last remaining building of the former mill where a largely Franco American workforce toiled decades ago.Īnd the owners plan to be not just at the base of the neighborhood from which they take their name, Sand Hill, but also on the site that is now an expansive riverfront city park where Edwards Manufacturing once stood. 10-AUGUSTA - Owners of the Sand Hill Bagel Co.
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