Recent content by cneal

The rendering makes the garage look closer than it will be IRL; the site plans on the planning board's website show a ~15 foot alley between this building and the garage, with some landscaping: The planning board unanimously approved the site plan for this project. The applicants also shared...

Proposed new 10-story residential building with 217 residential units and ground-level retail between the Public Market parking garage, Preble St., Oxford St., and Elm St. in Bayside. This project is getting its public hearing for planning board approval tonight...

Construction is underway on the Dewitt, a two-building project delivering 104 new mixed-income apartments next to Kennedy Park. This site had been a surface parking lot for decades. https://www.mainebiz.biz/article/two-new-apartment-buildings-are-underway-next-to-lewistons-kennedy-park...

Please take this in the spirit of some good-natured ribbing, but it seems to me that someone is just making up numbers based on some knee-jerk feelings? Google "portland public schools language demographics", ignore the AI slop at the top of the results, and you'll find this in about 5 seconds...

IDK, under the new zoning, I don't think there's much the city could do to block it - it's pretty much legal as of right. I think the bigger barrier to the project is financing – who's going to pay for it? And I'm not sure that a shorter building with less leasable space would pencil out for them.

I don't really think that height is the problem here. Remember that Redfern's project on Federal Street sailed through its planning approvals with virtually no opposition. This project is taller, sure, but it's also clearly being marketed to much wealthier homebuyers and tourists. Remember...

Looks like they got every shade of beige for the siding. Is it clad in naugahyde?

The city's CSS file for this project has been updated with some additional material (a cover letter, basic building elevation, and a site plan): https://selfservice.portlandmaine.gov/EnerGov_Prod/selfservice#/plan/4720ba27-6754-49a3-85ee-4e2ca35fea23?tab=attachments 26 1-bed plus 26 2-bedroom...

I've gotta work today but looking forward to learning about the plans. Re: the hotel moratorium, I'm pretty sure they filed a site plan application back in November (along with a bunch of other developers) in order to get in before the moratorium officially took effect.

If you've never seen it before, the Census Bureau's On The Map site has great data on commuting patterns. I understand it's based on IRS W-9 data, which records where people live and where they work: https://onthemap.ces.census.gov/ According to this, there are about 40,000 "primary" jobs on...

I generally agree and expect that *most* of the office space here will remain. But I still think that the site needs a lot more active non-office uses - especially given how much the current office uses rely on unproductive parking lots in the middle of the Old Port, and how dead this site...

Possible but very, very expensive. You'd need a site that can pull Kendall Square rents to justify it: https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/01/29/eversource-kendall-square-electrical-subsation-bxp-climate

Since we have two weeks to speculate, here are some observations: The whole Canal Plaza parcel is literally right next to Exchange Street and the middle of the Old Port on Exchange and Fore, but it certainly doesn't feel that way – it's cut off from all the foot traffic by a huge parking garage...

4 acres is the size of East Brown Cow's properties around Canal Plaza: 175K square feet = 4 acres

Yeah, I'm sorry, I should have started a new thread for this. The renderings I shared in post #43 are for a new project at 61 Preble Street. It's under the same Port Properties framework plan for Bayside, and they're calling it "Phase 1B". The location that @nomc highlighted in the map in post...