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    165 Washington Ave | Northern Burner Supply Redevelopment | Portland

    As far as I know, they still control the big former Mercy Hospital parking lot on the other side of Spring Street, which is over 1/2 an acre with an 85' height limit...
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    The Casco | 201 Federal Street | Portland

    I wonder what's going to become of the old Norway Savings drive-thru when it's no longer needed for construction staging. It's an absurdly dumb use of Old Port real estate – if I were running Norway Savings Bank, I wouldn't want such a visible billboard in the middle of downtown Portland...
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    165 Washington Ave | Northern Burner Supply Redevelopment | Portland

    OK I haven't found renderings but I did find this historic photo of what the existing building used to look like, when it was a car barn for the Portland & Yarmouth Electric Railway (the left bay appears to have been demolished but I wonder if the sign on the pediment is still there under the...
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    165 Washington Ave | Northern Burner Supply Redevelopment | Portland

    This sounds like a challenge – 1,000,000 ArchBoston Bucks* to the first person who can find them on the internet *ArchBoston Bucks are not a real thing
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    Portland Foreside | 58 Fore Street | Portland

    If you look at Portland's FEMA flood maps, the eastern prom trail along the eastern waterfront is generally 12-13 feet in elevation, which is better off than the old B&M building, whose south end is at about 10' elevation and has been getting pretty wet this winter...
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    Brunswick Development

    Ha ha – this is not true. Nobody's flying across the globe to get treatment at Maine Med the way people fly to MGH. No offense to MMC – several of my family members work there, and they would absolutely agree with this – but if you've got a serious cancer diagnosis and the world's best doctors...
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    Infill and Small Developments | Portland

    Renderings have been posted on the Historic Preservation Board agenda. No on-site parking either – except a nice big indoor bike storage room on Gilbert Lane:
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    Infill and Small Developments | Portland

    42 Atlantic Street – the former Munjoy Hill American Legion club – is getting an application for 26 affordable apartments in a new 4-story building. According to the application letter, the applicant is taking advantage of new zoning density bonuses that the city enacted in response to LD2003...
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    Infill and Small Developments | Portland

    From the application letter I actually got the impression that the church is staying – the letter describes a conversion of office and performance space on the 3rd floor of the parish house, with 9 units in the existing structure and 12 more in a new addition. Here's the property in question –...
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    Infill and Small Developments | Portland

    It's the time of year when new tax credit-funded affordable housing developments are trying to get planning board approval in order to score better in Maine Housing's competitive tax credit allocation process. There's another intriguing Historic Preservation application for an adaptive...
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    The Casco | 201 Federal Street | Portland

    I'm suing the Acadian Orogeny for blocking my views of the sky with these tacky ugly mountains
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    Brunswick Development

    So according to the scale on the site plan, it's 400 feet from the front door of Unit 7 to the outer edge of the parking lot, along a pleasant path lined with trees and your neighbors' front porches. At the Costco in Scarborough, it's a 600-700 foot walk from the front entrance to the outer...
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    General Portland Discussion

    I wonder if Suffolk is opening this new office to chase the Northeastern grad school projects on the former B&M site. Suffolk is a massive firm, and there aren't many local companies that have the bandwidth to take on such a big project in Portland. Suffolk is also an existing Northeastern...
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    Infill and Small Developments | Portland

    You may want to call Acorn Engineering - I've noticed that they've been running point on several recent zoning requests and site plan approvals that have come through the city. They're not architects, they're engineers, but you'd need to engage an engineer anyhow if you're thinking about a...
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    Herald Square | 385 Congress St | Portland

    Much as everyone appreciates the groundbreaking political commentary here, let's try to keep it on topic, folks. Discussions about your senile grandpa's favorite cable entertainment channel should go in this thread: https://archboston.com/community/forums/usa-politics-public-policy.58/

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