Westbrook Infill and Small Developments | ME

TC_zoid said:
Looks nice. I read that the new UNE Medical school leased out the entire building.
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Ironic that, prior to 1955, that spot essentially had direct rail access to the Westbrook College campus. But doing anything with that corridor west of the Turnpike, other than salvaging scrap metal, isn't on anyone's work plan. They presumably would have had to substantially raise the Turnpike during the Warren Ave. overpass reconstruction and widening project in order to reconnect the tracks.
 
markhb said:
Ironic that, prior to 1955, that spot essentially had direct rail access to the Westbrook College campus. But doing anything with that corridor west of the Turnpike, other than salvaging scrap metal, isn't on anyone's work plan. They presumably would have had to substantially raise the Turnpike during the Warren Ave. overpass reconstruction and widening project in order to reconnect the tracks.
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And tear down this new building constructed in the ROW a few years ago:

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I actually think that development we're referring to also sits partially in the former ROW.
 
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I believe you're both right, but I think an RDC shuttle running from a new platform just north of Cumberland St. (so not using the parts that have been built on) in to Bishop St. could have been a great amenity... but again, the Turnpike is in the way as well as the ROW having been obliterated in the Riverside St. neighborhood. I just looked it up in Historic Aerials; the old grade crossing (I remember it from when I was a kid) was where the driveway into Evergreen Credit Union is now; the building for the used car lot across the street, a corner of the new Happy Wheels and Chabot St. all occupy the former ROW.
 
From the marketing website for the new "Seavey Terraces" (the new building for UNE students located off the Main/Cumberland rotary):

Seavey Terraces: Westbrook Apartments for Modern Living

Explore Seavey Terraces in downtown Westbrook, Maine - a community blending style, pet-friendliness, convenience, and quality for working professionals.
www.seaveyterraces.com www.seaveyterraces.com

An adjacent Avesta Housing project is still under construction.

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Still Tom Nevers said:
Some progress photos from earlier today of the buildings going up on Clover Lane.

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I will say that driving by here (I live hear the high school) this is a massive improvement for that area. I wish all of the other apartments etc would start to update their facades.

I wouldn't mind a similar building for the "Grange Hall" looking place set back on the other side of the tracks. Maybe include the land and adjacent business on Rochester Street for 4 more buildings?
 
DanielPWM19 said:
I wouldn't mind a similar building for the "Grange Hall" looking place set back on the other side of the tracks. Maybe include the land and adjacent business on Rochester Street for 4 more buildings?
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This whole block is ripe for redevelopment. In the past, this little light industrial section near downtown was fine, but now it makes more sense to move the industrial stuff out toward Warren Ave or the industrial parks.

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Dr. StrangeHat said:
This whole block is ripe for redevelopment. In the past, this little light industrial section near downtown was fine, but now it makes more sense to move the industrial stuff out toward Warren Ave or the industrial parks.

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Some transit-oriented development utilizing that rail line right next door sure would be nice....
 
Island Frye said:
Some transit-oriented development utilizing that rail line right next door sure would be nice....
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Beat me to this comment. Right next to that rail corridor that runs through Rock Row and into Portland. Also runs the other way through Westbrook and would only need a mile or so of new track to connect downtown Gorham to alleviate some of that traffic.
 
Hanna Associates owns this whole corner now. They bought the Pratt Abbott property in 1998, and they bought the parking lot next door, as well as the two adjacent properties at 448 Main Street, in 2009. I have to imagine they have bigger plans for this.

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