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Avesta's email newsletter says this one will have a topping-out ceremony at the end of this month:

I doubt anyone is lobbying for the bridge – more likely is that nobody cares enough to get rid of it to justify the demolition costs. It's a beefy concrete bridge and tearing it out and doing all the necessary clean-up site work would be at least a $1 million contract.

Lots of renderings in the Press Herald story. Looks like the plan would replace the entire Sprague site – the coal pile, salt piles, and the scrap metal shed – but leave intact the pier and warehouse on the very tip of the point, and repurpose the existing warehouse closest to Cianbro as an...

So according to the tax maps, everything south/west of Commercial Street is zoned Waterfront Port Development, which explicitly prohibits residential, hotels, and restaurants. And almost all of Cassidy Point is owned by the Sprague Corp. or Cianbro. BUT there's an interesting and quite large...

The power lines pavilion

AASHTO is the generally accepted design guide. I should note that AASHTO's guidance is also considered out of date by a lot of professional transportation engineers, since AASHTO's guidelines are rooted in a 20th-century approach that produced a highway system that's far less safe than roads in...

There's actually a serious financial reckoning coming in Augusta w/r/t the future of Interstate 295 in greater Portland – it's been the subject of extensive discussion at PACTS, the regional transportation financing agency, over the past couple of years. Basically, we have a highway that was...

The "phase 1" hotel in post 209 is the only thing that has received site plan approvals at this point, but that was over 3 years ago now (!). They'd filed for an extension, but I think their site plan approval may have expired now, so that project could be dead. That hotel was approved...

Different developers, although the Herald Square owners (Reger Dasco) might have been waiting for the concert venue developers' money from the land sale before they proceed with their project. Interestingly, the southern corner of the site has already been subdivided and is under the ownership...

I was looking through Windham's planning board agendas and found this massive housing proposal for the woods behind Home Depot: The application is for 306 apartments in two buildings on a 7.88 acre property and a 425kW large-scale ground-mounted solar energy system comprised of 640 modules on a...

Concept plans for the St. Joseph's Manor site commissioned by the marketing realtors: https://images1.showcase.com/d2/YRjshJ0vVk836P-2KcPZ07S7tZfCZ2x3pVEVubh5cqI/document.pdf Note that these aren't actual proposals but were commissioned to show what could be built on the site under existing...

A demolition permit has been issued, and the site is fenced off today: https://selfservice.portlandmaine.gov/EnerGov_Prod/selfservice#/permit/067da4b7-059a-4b8d-b50e-f7dec97616d3 The construction permit is under review.

Worth noting that the lot this sits on is currently owned by the Boys and Girls Club. I believe that this project is how they're planning to satisfy the city's Housing Replacement Ordinance when they tear down the existing rooming house on the corner of Cedar and Cumberland for their planned...

We know this isn't true because the Turnpike Authority's financial statements are public documents: "cash and Investment balances in the General Reserve Fund were designated as restricted and had balances of $117.7 million and $118 million as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024...