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Eric Holstein left and Neil Spillane anticipate 72 Parris Streets second floor changing from Fight Club to food lab. M AY 2 0 1 6 6 5 Hungry EyE FromtopmeaghanmauricerenderingsbyericholsteinFriedFishphotocourtesyFishinships Kitchen Maines first food labcommercial kitchentasting room comes to town. By ClairE Z. CramEr Y ou have to have a little moxie to pay half a million dollars for 5000-plus square feet of empty building in West Bayside that just last year was one of The Bollards Thats My Dump targets. Neil Spillane who with business part- ner Eric Holstein has purchased a hulking empty brick warehouse at 72 Parris Street leads the way into the brick-walled gloom. This place started as Hirnings Bak- ery. There was the wholesale Alma Florist business for a while. Then it went through a phase as a boxing gym. In its unrenovat- ed state illuminated by a few bare bulbs the brick-walled warehouse does have a certain Fight Club aura. The Vision Thing This is going to be the face of Fork Food Lab Spillane says. Fork Food Lab is a self- described collaborative commercial food kitchen serving new and existing business- es. Spillane and Holstein are now standing in the square cinder-block former garage attached to the left side of the 1910 brick building. A few days before ren- ovations begin the future face of Fork Food Lab doesnt look like much. But this garage will become a tasting room and shop wel- coming retail customers. An embedded video on the forkfoodlab. com website shows the bleak garage trans- formed into an airy space with table seating indoors and out the cinder blocks vanished behind attractive siding. The work is being done by Landmarc Construction of Portland who also built the clean handsome interiors of Roustabout Sur Lie Central Provisions and Portland Hunt Alpine Club. People will be able to come right into the tasting room and eat shop and see what were up to says Spillane. And what theyll be up to is collaborating with food producers of all sorts who need licensed commercial kitchen space to pre- pare food for sale and use elsewhere. We supply everythingprep space stoves ovens storage cold storage and clean inspected licensed commercial work space says Spillane. We do all the health Collaboration Forks tasting roombefore and afterand lunch from Fork member Fishin Ships food truck. Fromtop