BRUNSWICK

Within a few months, Wild Oats Bakery and Café’s Pegasus

Street location should be ready to deal out muffins, coffee, soup and cakes to Brunswick Landing’s growing tenancy.

The ex-base hosts several large corporate or manufacturing facilities, as well as the Midcoast campus of Southern Maine Community College, but no food service provider yet. Wild Oats, waiting to move into the former Building 592, south of the P-3 Orion on Pegasus Street, will be the first.

Earlier this year, bakery owners Becky and David Shepherd made a handshake deal with the building’s owner, Tom Wright, who owns the adjacent, newlyrenovated Seeds of Independence facilities.

Becky Shepherd said the tentative opening date will be “probably March or April.”

There will be lots of outdoor seating, and new landscaping to create a less-thanmilitary feel, she said.

Short-order cooking will done in the new space but any special orders will be prepared in the Maine Street location and delivered.

“The space is being renovated, but we haven’t outfitted it with any of our equipment yet,” Shepherd said. “We’ll have to put in (freezers and refrigerators), display cases, counters, tables … We’re still trying to figure out how much space we’ll have available for production over there.”

The Shepherds don’t have a lease. They have worked so closely with Wright and his students for so long they didn’t feel the need for one.

“Tom’s a very easy person to work with and we both want this to be successful,” Shepherd said. “He’s tried to make it as easy as possible for us to get in there.”

Building 592 once housed a U.S. Navy veterinary facility and kennel and recently served as an experimental site for testing the energy efficiency of building materials. It’s being renovated and expanded to more than triple its original 1,600 square feet.

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