165 Washington Ave | Northern Burner Supply Redevelopment | Portland

[cranewatch]

OK I haven't found renderings but I did find this historic photo of what the existing building used to look like, when it was a car barn for the Portland & Yarmouth Electric Railway (the left bay appears to have been demolished but I wonder if the sign on the pediment is still there under the metal siding?)

The Portland & Yarmouth Electric used to run streetcar service every 15 minutes along what is now Route 88 from Portland through Falmouth Foreside to downtown Yarmouth:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_and_Yarmouth_Electric_Railway

Check out what I saw this morning, in the Washington Ave. excavation in front of the new Tavata project. Old railroad tracks! History buried below the pavement. I talked to one of the site contractors, he said there are three sets of tracks in the street...likely from the old streetcar service?