April is often rainy, or stormy, or chaotic in Maine - and that’s just the weather. It’s also stormy and chaotic balancing all of the seasonal projects that have to get done. Things like awnings on all of the buildings, is it too early? Is there more crazy wind coming? Things you don’t think about that you have to worry about. You have to make lists, lots and lots of lists. You have to share lists with the right people. Who is working on this project or that project or what people from different teams are collaborating on this one? There is a LOT of collaboration in our team - maybe why collaboration is one of my favorite words. As I write this post there are myriad projects underway that have seemingly hundreds of projects under them. For example before the end of the month:
Opening Bayview Hotel for the season.
Adding a spa room with infrared sauna
Revamping the gift shop
Creating an oceanfront gym area
Welcoming a new General Manager
Launching a new F&B program
Celebrating Swan Agency’s 50th Year
Hosting a SWH office Business After Hours
Presenting a leadership donor check to a non-profit
Launching our Throwback program in our 50 year celebration
Assisting brokers with community outreach
Podcast Studio
FINALLY, premiering our Swan Agency podcast
Setting up interviews and guests
Swan Song Saltwater Farm
Finishing the redesign of Dear Prudence, the Farmhouse
Construction of septic systems, driveways and slabs for new cottages
Permits, permits, permits for everything from decks to pumpkin patches
Future bride and groom tours of the property for 2025 weddings
Pomegranate Inn in Portland
Work with movers to bring art and furniture to Swan Song
Attorney work to legally separate the inn and carriage house
Work with contractors for many of the needed repairs once emptied
Find space at the Farm for the art and antiques arriving in waves
Getting properties ready to sell
112 Main Street in Northeast Harbor
33 Seely Road in Bar Harbor
Pomegranate Carriage House in Portland
And of COURSE it wouldn’t be spring for us without opening ANOTHER business
Stay tuned for CO CO+FE (corner of cottage and federal streets)
A wellness studio for locals as well as the go-to for Bayview Guests
Room rentals for practitioners
Pilates, yoga, massage, sauna and whatever other spaces needed
I’m exhausted just making this short list and it doesn’t begin to cover it all. I guess I better stop writing and blog posts and get to work.