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Construction has started on a new Chick-fil-A at the Maine Mall in South Portland. (Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer)

A new Chick-fil-A location is currently under construction in the Maine Mall parking lot in South Portland.

The 1.25-acre parcel for the restaurant was carved out of surplus parking for Macy’s. This will be the second Chik-fil-A location in Greater Portland; the first opened in Westbrook’s Rock Row in 2021. A Chick-fil-A opened in Bangor in 2016.

Milan Nevajda, planning director for the city of South Portland, said Chick-fil-A representatives told city officials that construction could take close to a year.

“We do not yet have a opening date since its a little too early for that,” Nevajda said.

Tim Cebula has been a food writer and editor for 23 years. A former correspondent for The Boston Globe food section, his work has appeared in Time, Health, Food & Wine, CNN.com, and Boston magazine,...

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