Recent content by Dr. StrangeHat

Nice find! I wonder if that's an old vestige from when the Westbrook Arterial was planned to connect with I-295 and Larrabee would have been an interchange instead of an at-grade interesction?

Yup, which is why I'm willing to bet the only thing that gets built is that 1-story retail along Larrabee.

Those 1-story retail buildings closest to Larrabee Road are the most concerning. That virtually kills future development of any height or scale on those parking lots. It also pushes this further away from an urban feel to a suburban feel.

Guaranteed the retail strip mall aspects along Larrabee are the only things that are actually built. That's all Waterstone seems to be able to do, suburban strip malls. Sure, they pulled off the medical campus, but only after they needed to get emergency financing and Landry French pulled off...

Phase 3 master plan going before the Planning Board on April 7th.

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/03/24/portland-jetport-to-change-its-restaurant-lineup-this-year/ Summary for those who can't see behind the paywall: Portland International Jetport is overhauling its restaurant lineup for the first time in 14 years. Starting this fall, North Carolina-based...

Heartland! That's the store I remembered from when I was a kid!

Wasn't Shaw's in Jetport Plaza (same strip mall where Staples is today) in the space that was most recently Burlington Coat Factory? I recall that being a grocery store as a kid.

Agreed. That property has so much more potential than that. Sure, anything is better than the current eyesore that Mall Plaza has become, but this is just a continuation of the cookie-cutter hotels that were developed closer to the airport between Maine Mall Road and Western Ave.

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/02/09/portland-hires-firm-to-market-prime-midtown-parcels-in-bayside-neighborhood/ Summary for those that don't have a PPH subscription: The city of Portland has hired The Boulos Company to market four vacant, city-owned parcels along Somerset Street in the...

Does anyone want to make a bet on what those apartment buildings will look like? Because my money is on this design, which was been like a weed around here for the last 10 years:

I like it too. I vote to keep it.

The new images stand out easily from all the burnt grass from this past summer's drought

So, in other words, we're going to hear (and feel) it when these suckers take off and land on Saturdays, huh?

I don't know, though. Based on everything I've read, a 737-800 at max weight needs more than 7,200 feet at sea level to take off. Will they be limiting passengers? Does anyone else fly 737-800s in and out of PWM?