“I left and then was back 9 months later. After culinary school, she came to Biddeford for what she said would be only a few months. “I was thinking I was going to leave and not stay in Biddeford, but I met such great people I just knew I needed to stay.”Īlli has a similar story. “I moved here for a job at a marketing firm in the mill,” O’Neill said.
Partners in business and in life, they met in culinary school and saw a need for Part and Parcel in the Biddeford area. Danielle O’Neill and Ali Preble are two such people. With its large white spaces and hand-selected goods, Part and Parcel is a place where locals can buy locally sourced products within walking distance of their homes.īiddeford has seen a renaissance in the last few years with more and more young people moving into the downtown area, looking for opportunities to spread their wings, both from a personal and business aspect. That spirit has also spilled over into the downtown area as well, including a new venture called Part and Parcel. Now, the mills in Biddeford are incubators to new businesses, with new opportunities opening up every day. But that is where entrepreneurs find a way to bring them back to life. Yet when the industrial economy changed in the 20 th centuries, these massive mill buildings lost their significance and use. Like many other New England communities, Biddeford has a long, rich history in the textile industry, with massive mills built near rivers. In the last few years, dozens of new businesses have opened in its downtown community and in the Mills that dominate the local landscape. FebruA Couple’s Dream Business Becomes Reality at Part and Parcelīiddeford, Maine is one of those places where entrepreneurialsm just seems to happen.
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