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It has too much of a suburban shopping mall feel (think Settlers Green in North Conway) than what people are probably looking for when they go for a shopping excursion in Freeport. I think tourists, to an extent, like the idea of shopping in an outlet that used to be a home or a bank, probably...

Smart move by Kittery. Brick & motor retail will never come back to what it once was, and this will bring in more local traffic to help support the remaining retail in the area.

If it were me, I'd probably head north. 101 is one of my least favorite stretches of highway in New England.

I'm not big into selfies, but I have never once in my life thought "Hey, let's get a selfie with a random rock in the background instead of the ocean."

Views of Mt. Washington from Portland never get old. 70 miles away, and it looks closer than that.

I don't think the target market for this type of development is someone that wants to deal with building or property maintenance after building. This seems targeted for out-of-state well-off childless young professionals or empty nesters.

No, driving, bus and train aren't viable options. It's the time spent traveling that is the concern. I can't blow three days on these meetings. I need the down-and-back quick option, but current flight schedules for PWM->PHL don't work.

Ditto. I was supposed to go to Philly in March for a set of meetings that start with dinner the night before and run the next day through midday, but I could not make it work logistically given flight schedules in March. I'd either have to miss much of meetings, take indirect flights to...

The property is now subdivided into numerous distinct pieces that, at least according to what they told the Planning Board, is based on the intended phasing of the project. So, they don't necessarily need to find one buyer for the whole kit & kaboodle, but I have to wonder what's tied to the...

From glass-is-half-full perspective, at least the entire lot hasn't been developed as retail (eventually proposed to be anchored by Wal-Mart), with seemingly as much parking as Gillette Stadium, as the original developer proposed before Waterstone bought it from them...

Hmm, I wonder if they'd be in a position to take over the Rock Row medical campus debacle? I heard that Waterstone closed on new funding, but there were over 40 liens to clear to the tune of millions of dollars. I can't imagine Landry French would want anything to do with Waterstone at this point.

I don't really have a recommendation, but looking to hire an architect rather than just using whatever out-of-the-box crap the civil engineering firm slaps on the table as "design" is a good start. The latter has been employed on far too many projects in the Greater Portland area in the past 10+...

Speak for yourself. I'd probably love it for at least 9-10 months out of the year. The world can be a little too peoply for me sometimes. :LOL:

Good god. Combined with the Chestnut Street Lofts and the back of the Merrill Auditorium, that's going to be an awful stretch when viewing this the I-295 side of the peninsula.

Ironically, the Top of the Old Port parking lot exists today, because the lot was cleared in preparation for that development.

That was Boulos hotel/convention center/arena proposal in the 2000's. The one I replied to was the original huge Lincoln Square project proposed in the '80's. It was scaled back multiple times due to outcry over its size, and It was ultimately doomed by '90-'91 recession.

I was randomly thinking about this project this morning. How do you think the general NIMBY and transplant populace would react to this being proposed today, but as residential instead of commercial?

Add another $80 million to the bank for the athletics facility upgrade: https://www.pressherald.com/2024/01/09/alfond-foundation-donates-another-80-million-for-umaine-athletic-facility-upgrades/

My recollection was that the Cianchette Block was built on top of the old "bunker" single-level parking deck on that location, but after other comments here, looking at the building on Google maps and reading through the documents at the below link, I think my memory was/is a little fuzzy on...