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"Four letters" did it for me. Chase Tower in Lima, Ohio. So that's what I missed on Glee.

I didn't realize that they had bought Union Station Plaza; I wonder if that makes putting the train station there easier or harder. I also caught in the article that East Brown Cow, current owners of the MCRR building, have been refusing to renew tenant leases as they expire.

I didn't recall all the details myself. If you have a subscription to the Press Herald / Telegram, they have made their archives available for free via newspapers.com. A quick search in there found it. (And after looking at Historic Aerials, I believe that much of the land King was suggesting is...

I am not sure if anyone other than Portlander and myself might remember the time Business Express (a regional that flourished prior to 9/11 and at one point flew 24 flights/day from PWM) wanted to create a maintenance hub at PWM. The city was against it due to a perceived lack of space, but Gov...

I either stumped you all or pissed you all off, I guess. The hint, where I said the taller buildings were "hotels, or at least signed as such" was, I thought, a big one. This is City Hall West, in Anaheim, California, the tallest building in downtown. One of the taller buildings in town but...

I'd also think of delays stacked up over LAX as an additional limit on nominal range.

I am looking forward to finding it on Saturday! Hopefully it's not in that massive dead zone where the old ticket counters were.

JetBlue not only lost the Spirit merger, they also lost the alliance they had with American (which I guess American is appealing), so I have to think they're in a bit of strategic floundering right now. I hate to see it; when my brother was a frequent traveler he loved them and proudly...

ITA. I'm reminded of the floor plan for the Grand Penthouse of the Millennium Tower in Boston, where they appeared to put the master bedroom on the east side. Maybe that's a Habit of Highly Effective People, but if that were my place I'd not have the sun in my window in the morning!

I'll also point out this map: the Land Bank Commission map of parks, Water District properties and parcels that are part of the Land Bank (yellow). It's interesting to me how much land has been added since the Land Bank was created, including a lot at the end of my street that I had no idea had...

You're welcome! South Portland split from Cape Elizabeth right around the same time as the Portland-Deering merger. The original land grant for the Falmouth settlement was essentially the box formed by the north boundary of current Falmouth, the western boundary of Falmouth and Westbrook, and...

The Enabling Act that merged the city of Deering into Portland (which, so far as I know, Deering voted against every time and the Legislature eventually forced it to happen regardless) specifies that the city shall maintain a full-service high school within the bounds of what had been Deering...

The "tight financially" might just have been a reference to the exorbitant costs of building anything these days. No telling what the bids came in at (assuming they've bid it out already).

My hunch is that, if it happens, it'll be an expansion of the existing Deering High which will be renamed Portland High. There are legal reasons for it to be in an off-peninsula neighborhood that is not Dougherty Field.

Thanks! I wondered if it were Eastern, but so far as I knew they never flew here. I was thinking the same thing!

That wooded neighborhood across the river (Congress Terrace) is where my grandparents lived. It's still largely dirt roads! But now I'm wondering what airline that jet was from. It doesn't look like Northeast and their Yellow birds. Also, I recall that the city sold the control tower from the...

Portland's was in the early-mid 70's; I believe I was living with my grandparents at the time and that was... in that timespan. The new tower doesn't exist in the 1970 Historic Aerials shots of the Jetport.

Is Springvale a legal village, or do they just pretend they aren't Sanford? I don't know that they really want 5-star restaurants; a Bonanza survived there until the pandemic (I went there once in the late 2010's; the place was incredibly run-down, with worn out carpets, etc. But it was still...

Westbrook's holiday light displays the past couple of years have been outstanding, far better than downtown Portland's. 30+ years ago... I do recall that, thanks to the mill and its taxes, Westbrook had the best-cleared roads in the area in the winter. And the pulp mill did its best to hold off...

It's always safe to assume that the lawyers will get paid! :)