Recent content by markhb

I co-sign everything @nomc just said. To me, the only thing that stands out as "wrong" with the current museum interior is the traffic flow in the lobby: the shop is somewhat secluded, and there isn't a delineation between entering and exiting traffic in the grand lobby (including, unless it...

Another brutal letter (IMO) in the PPH today, from David Chase of York. Most interesting... (I assume "the group that founded it" was the Portland Society of Art, which spawned both PMA and the former Portland School of Art, now Maine College of Art & Design.)

I'm sure it was a Rite-Aid; way back in the day that only Portlander and I know first hand, it was a Wellby Super Drug.

It turns out to be case sensitive... the link is https://mmc.org/opening . I just filled the form out and will see what happens.

Thanks!

"first independently owned full-service hotel [since the Portland harbor Hotel in 2002]" has an awful lot of qualifiers. Does the Press Hotel not qualify because of its membership in Autograph Collection? But an electric luxury car service to take you anywhere within 3 miles.... Libbytown for...

I believe they're talking about a June opening for it! Does anyone know if there's a a direct access from the porte cochere to the garage? So you could drop off whoever you're dropping off and then proceed directly to the parking without having to go out onto Congress?

That is the Portland Square area and it has its own existing thread. Right now (and for the past few decades), the surface parking has largely served the One and Two Portland Square buildings that were built in the late 80's.

A very minor nitpick I noticed on their lot plan: Larrabee Road is no longer Route 25. Ever since they built Exit 47, 25 turns off of Brighton onto Rand Road and then follows onto the Arterial into Westbrook. Business 25 sticks to Brighton and then follows Main St around the rotary by the mill...

Since grabbing the Westbrook Planning Board materials is a fleeting thing, I just noticed that Rock Row does have a workshop for some minor changes to their contract zone slated for Tuesday, May 7, and the packet materials are posted now. One of their PDF's is a site plan showing all the...

TIL that the current rail bridge across the harbor is not the same one that stood there in the 1940's and earlier. (Of course, unless you found a map that showed both you'd be hard-pressed to tell them apart.)

I'm wondering what's taking so long for the garage to open

Now that I think about it, there would be no reason for freight to ever use that wye; any such traffic on the Mountain would be heading to or coming out of Rigby Yard.

He's been in there long enough that I'm sure the BOT is largely, if not entirely, his buddies. The piece by the former museum director is brutal towards the plans, both to tear down 142 High and also to knock a hole in the Cobb facade. I don't know when it's supposed to appear in the paper, though.

A couple I snapped today... Love the awning!