Recent content by Fitch Bronson

I drive past that location almost every single day. IMO, from a streetscape and placemaking perspective, it's getting better, but still not quite there, as is still the case with the mill district. I'm in the mill district frequently and even with all of the millions of SF worth of adaptive...

We are dealing with school campus consolidation here in Saco. State DOE is driving the bus in large part because their site-selection and funding matrix heavily favors large lot, drive-to sites off of arterials versus in-town neighborhood elementary schools, several of which are nearly end of...

I don't disagree with a single thing any of you have said. I shop at the Biddeford Market Basket myself and see all of the Sanford memeres and peperes there with their grocery cart filled with whatever happens on sale that Sunday. All of the older rough looking dudes with their Laconia bike week...

84,000 dwelling units needed statewide. Multiple communities across southern Maine turning down proposed developments that would help alleviate the housing crisis (800 units in Kittery DOA last year, 321 units in Saco DOA recently, the 107 unit Cumberland senior housing project killed when the...

I mean G-P is just executing on behalf of its client, like and other civil would. Not sure if you'd get a better product with Acorn or Stantec or someone else if the project is scoped out the same. The developer, the developer's vision, the capital stack and demand for ROI, and the land...

Anyone following the Lincoln Village saga in Saco? https://www.pressherald.com/2023/11/06/saco-planning-board-rejects-final-approval-of-lincoln-village-development/ Was going to be 330ish units in a PUD-style arrangement on a 56 acre site (the site plan reminds me a lot of the stuff AvalonBay...

The success of Market Basket in Biddo and Westbrook makes me think that the southern Maine market would be ripe for an Aldi's if we're talking about chains from away. Closest one is in Dover, NH from what I can tell. There's a big swath of western York and southern Oxford county that's...

Why Scarborough, and not Biddeford-Saco? The latter has heavy rail access, a two-for-one deal with twin central business districts straddling a river, a functioning sidewalk grid, a university (UNE) and is 15 minutes closer to metro Boston by car. I get that Scarborough has more greenfield...