The Crooker Community Involvement Committee has been busier than ever with incoming donation and sponsorship requests. We have continued our annual support of United Way, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Oasis Clinics, Midcoast Literacy, and Kora Shriners. Some of the other donations and sponsorships we have approved: Project Grads, youth sports programs, cancer research, Habitat for Humanity, Pine Tree Camp, Brunswick Naval Aviation Museum, and many more. You might have seen our Logo/banner while on a garden tour, at a fishing derby, on a fence at a game, on a sign at a 5k, a hole at a golf scramble, or a banner at the Claws and Country music festival! Having committee members with many interests and backgrounds helps to diversify our giving and helps us reach many different areas of the communities where we work and live.

January 2022 started with the issuance of a “Certificate of Occupancy” for the newly completed First Phase of the multi-part/multi-year LL Bean Outsider Corporate Campus Expansion. The $13M project – started in summer 2019 is now over 50% complete and set for final completion in the fall of 2023. Zachau Construction of Freeport, Maine is The Project Construction Manager on the roughly $100M project.

The project involves repurposing an existing long time manufacturing facility into a new corporate office and event center for LL Bean in Freeport, Maine. Site improvements include large areas of porous  pavements that will help to protect the nearby Concord Gully Brook Watershed from uncontrolled runoff.

The Town of Harpswell received a grant in 2020 to help make the first half mile of their popular Cliff Trail ADA accessible. This will make a half mile smooth-surface path along the shoreline of tidal Strawberry Creek.

The Town reached out to Crooker to see if we could help with materials; we answered with a resounding yes!!

Crooker received the 2021 Build Maine Award in the Municipal division for the Morse High School and Bath Regional Career and Technical Center in RSU 1. (Bath, Maine). Presented by the Associated General Contractors of Maine, this award is presented to applicants whose projects show a contribution to the community, innovation in construction techniques or materials, meeting the challenge of a difficult job, shows responsiveness to clients/customer needs and has a clean safety record. This project, among other accomplishments, passed those requirements with flying colors.

Crooker Construction recently broke ground on our largest project to date ($22,000,000) with the sitework associated with the new Edward Little High School in Auburn, Maine. Working for Arthur Dudley Contractor/Builder, Crooker is currently moving dirt in phase one in preparation for the foundations for the new building. Phase One (initial building construction) includes large cuts of unsuitable soil material, large fills to bring the building to sub-grade, retaining wall construction, utilities, and foundation/building preparation.

In November 2020, Crooker Construction was awarded a $9.3M project to revitalize the downtown area in Waterville.  The project is funded largely with a Federal BUILD grant, with additional funding from Colby College, Maine DOT and the City of Waterville.  The project will reverse “urban renewal” and return Main Street to a two-way, pedestrian friendly street that will spur economic development in the downtown area.  Starting March 2021, and over the next 20 months, the Crooker Team will work to reconstruct roads, improve and re-align intersections, and landscape Main street with new granite curb, lighting, concrete and brick sidewalks, brick crosswalks and street trees.  We will use our in-house expertise, local talent and a dedicated team of subcontractors to deliver Maine’s largest Locally Administered Project (LAP) to date!

Along with our usual winter time maintenance and snow removal, Crooker has been staying busy this winter on a variety of projects.

Crooker Construction has moved to our winter hours for aggregate purchases at our Topsham facility.

We are open Monday thru Friday, 6:30am to 4:00pm.

In June of 2020 Crooker was contacted by AGC Maine’s Emerging Contractors Group about a Make-A-Wish project they were trying to help complete.  A four-year-old boy who was battling an illness wanted a playground of his own!  Crooker did not hesitant in agreeing to help out and not only would donate materials but as soon as the news of the project traveled throughout the company, multiple employees were asking how they could be a part of it.