Recent content by DV74

Designed it.

A local firm, SMRT, just completed the second largest university PassiveHaus project in the country at USM. We have a lot of great talent in Portland. Let's keep the money local and support our own!

Out of curiosity, is there a reason you hired architects from the Pacific Northwest instead of local?

What is this horrid thing?!

What articles and stories are not making clear is that the massive sewer separation project will need to move to Franklin within the next few years. The trees will need to come out anyway. And while they are doing the project is the best time to be rethinking how to rebuild it.

These new renderings convey to me a schizophrenic approach. It’s not cohesive. It’s ugly. It lacks vision. The project is really going downhill aesthetically. Such a. Great opportunity and it is being squandered.

You placed the building directly onto the parking lot for MAC air and General Aviation actually. I know. I park there. It’s labeled as yellow bird rd but there is parking at the end.

This project is taking FOREVER!!!!! Why so slow? I see it on a regular basis and progress is hard to detect!

That’s the general aviation parking area and also the MAC air space. It probably wouldn’t go there if I had to guess. Also, the building you drew would be very small to be Any sort of warehouse.

Update in today’s MaineBiz...

They really need to update the renderings given how much they have deviated from the plan already. Starting to feel like a bait and switch.

It doesn’t look better in person. Big monolith. I am curious what is going behind it on the Fore Street Side tho. I recall there being housing there, but I am not finding a plan anywhere. Does anyone have the approved plan?

I didn’t realize he had passed away until that article either. I worked with him on a project years ago and then lost touch. Sad to hear.