Scarborough Downs

With the eventual capacity to vaccinate up to 2,000 people per day for coronavirus, the mass vaccine clinic at Maine’s former Scarborough Downs horseracing track opened Wednesday. The facility is a collaboration between Crossroad Holdings, a development group turning the land the track sits on into a mixed-used site, and MaineHealth, the regional health care organization that operates Maine Medical…

Maine residents receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the Scarborough Downs race track.

A Maine horse track that closed last November is getting a temporary new life to fight the pandemic. Last week, developer Crossroad Holdings and MaineHealth announced they would turn the grandstands at Scarborough Downs outside Portland into a mass vaccine site. The holding company is in the process of building a mixed-use complex where the track sits but began working…

Maine’s Scarborough Downs horse racetrack will be the state’s first mass vaccination site.