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Go to Apartments.com and you'll see that a number of those addresses have rental listings – it's not uncommon for projects to lease out unsold condo units on short-term leases while they wait for buyers (or for buyers to rent out their condos as apartments to other people). Just because they're...

Impressive project! Too bad there's a white elephant parking garage blocking views of the river. From the story, it sounds as though nobody's even using it: "The 590-space parking garage, which Levesque said is empty, is planned to serve tenants of both residential buildings."

I was by there this morning and there's already a big crew working on the masonry, and the old fabric awnings have been torn off.

They're building 24 duplexes on a cul-de-sac. This section of Main Street doesn't even have a sidewalk on the east side, and judging by the site plans, the developers aren't adding one. Imagine spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for a new home that's within walking distance of downtown...

Speaking of creativity, I would love to read a critique that doesn't resort to Red Scare cliches while complaining about affordable housing. In fairness, though, it's pretty funny if you think that the solution to this imaginary problem is to have a government committee mandate the "correct"...

I definitely agree that there's still more parking than necessary in this proposal, but the project is being built on what is an existing surface parking lot that has 40-something parking spaces, so it is giving us a net reduction in parking.

Yeah, I'm a little dubious about those huge riverfront parking lots – they're wasting some of their most valuable real estate on asphalt (and it looks like they're also planning at least some ground-floor structured parking?) With all the development in this area there's a strong case for...

Asking them to add another floor to include more apartments on the site is good feedback for the applicants and the Planning Board to hear, especially now at the workshop stage. I doubt it's a financial issue – adding another floor would add some construction expense, but most of the fixed...

Neighorhood meeting announcement with an explanation of why it's getting a "Brown Street" address even though it's going to front Casco Street: Dear Neighbor: Please join Developers Collaborative Predevelopment LLC and Equality Community LP, for a Neighborhood Meeting via Zoom to discuss their...

This is a problem everywhere in the U.S., even in Boise, although some cities work harder than others to segregate encampments into places where tourists are less likely to see them: https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article269766652.html Simply arresting homeless people...

Great essay on NIMBYism and the climate in this month's Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/04/yimby-nimby-progressives-clean-energy-infrastructure-housing-development-wind-solar-bill-mckibben/ Putting this is the Bayside thread in memory of Peter Monro's successful...

Planning board application materials for the 185-unit Seavey Street project, which includes 91 affordable units in 2 buildings from Avesta and 94 market-rate units in two other buildings on a ~3-acre site (61 units per acre). For some reason the renderings only illustrate the 2 buildings closest...

California just funded early design for a new high-speed rail link from Palmdale to Victor Valley to connect the two systems: https://highdesertcorridor.org/high-desert-corridor-intercity-high-speed-rail-corridor-project-awarded-8-million-grant-from-california-state-transportation-agency/...

Luckily Google Street View has memorialized how much history we've lost

Family Dollar has already been redeveloped as a hotel... for rats https://www.pressherald.com/2023/04/05/rat-infested-store-in-westbrook-posed-numerous-hazards/

I remember when I moved to Portland in 2006, the city still required 2 parking spaces for every apartment, no matter how big or small. This 6-unit on Sheridan Street was one of the few new buildings constructed under those rules during the bubble years, and you can see in the satellite view how...

That Scarborough Downs project is proposing a 2.5-acre, 155-space surface parking lot for 42 apartments and ground-floor retail – as required by Scarborough's insane zoning rules 😬😬😬

This is actually well under construction; the first floor has already been framed: And here's a closer look at phase one, nearing completion:

This could be interesting: a zone change application for 426 Presumpscot Street (near the Falmouth line, where Presumpscot meets Ocean Ave.) for a "residential project that will include rental units with a target rent affordable to 100% AMI as well as market-rate, residential condominium units...

Archetype is really making a name for themselves for cheap, phoning-it-in architecture.