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The City has posted the bids to this RFP to develop several city-owned downtown parking lots: https://www.westbrookmaine.com/DocumentCenter/Index/174 "The City has agreed to move forward with the second phase of the RFP process and work with Great Falls Construction for Lot A and New...

Curious, if/when they expand the terminal west, is the intention to give American those new gates or will they be up for grabs?

Too bad neither the residential on top of the parking garage or the residential building on the end ever materialized. Can you imagine what this development would look and feel like in downtown Westbrook?

They did just get a cash infusion to help move this along: https://www.mainebiz.biz/article/rock-row-investor-puts-86m-more-into-the-project#:~:text=Rock%20Row%2C%20the%20110%2Dacre,to%20a%20Dallas%20investment%20firm.

https://www.pressherald.com/2023/08/14/work-wont-resume-on-congress-square-redesign-until-next-year/ I'll be surprised if Gordan Contracting ever wins a bid around here ever again.

Charter would be my thought as well. I've anecdotally noticed a high rate of Wheels Up, NetJets and FlexJet flights in and out of the state over the past week.

Ahh, there's that "nobody wants to work anymore" false edict again. As a trained economist, this is what I see: Wages increasing closer to livable levels, as well as the on-set of the gig economy and more availability of non-traditional sources of income, means many people don't need to work...

This right here is my biggest pet peeve of PWM, especially since I'm usually taking a butt-ass early 5:30am-ish flight somewhere. One more coffee/breakfast option would be awesome. Nobody wants Burger King breakfast.

There have been some high level conceptual plans floated to transform the mall, but nothing concrete. Just ideas at this point. https://www.gpcog.org/DocumentCenter/View/1182/Maine-Mall-TOD-Final-Plan-PDF...

I stayed in four different hotels last week, and not one of them had any rooms that ended in 13. For example, I was in Room 211 in the first hotel, and the room next door was 215. It prompted me to check the next three hotels, and sure enough, no rooms ending in 13.

It's really all relative. Ever fly in or out of Omaha? It serves more than double the amount of passengers as PWM, serves a city seven times the size of Portland, and serves a metro area twice the size of Portland. It's one of my least favorite airports in the country, especially because of the...

Why in the heck is that observation deck even needed? To see the street below? The views without it seem great. I couldn't care less about looking at the street below if I owned that.

I've found that CMP is actually pretty good at moving their lines and gear to the new pole within a reasonable timeframe. They've subcontracted with On-Target for a lot of this work. It's the others on the pole (Consolidated, Spectrum, etc.) that dog it and take forever to move their stuff (years).

If they used cheaper materials, which is likely given their budgetary constraints, then that blue will fade over time and won't be as bad as it looks today.

Some discussion at the bottom of page 2 and top of page 3 in this thread on the sign: https://archboston.com/community/threads/465-congress-street-portland.6115/page-2 https://archboston.com/community/threads/465-congress-street-portland.6115/page-3

The sign previously said "People's United Bank." I believe it was discussed earlier in this thread that either Maine's billboard law or city sign law forced them to use the existing sign structure when M&T Bank acquired People's United Bank.

It's this empty lot here (I believe the aforementioned green building in the background):

The crane's coming down this week:

I lived around the corner from this building about 17-18 years ago and dreamed of buying it and adding two floors.

Yup, the parking lot shaded in darker gray in the above plan is an existing lot, not a new one.