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That ground-floor parking garage fronting Congress St. in 2 Monument Square is an astounding waste of space – as far as I know, it's the only garage entrance that fronts Congress Street between City Hall and Longfellow Square. This is in a neighborhood that yields $30-$50/SF for ground-floor...

I got news for you, the Turnpike still gets backed up after the widening – according to their own data, there are more cumulative delays on the Turnpike today than there were before the widening project started, and according to the decennial Census, average commute times for the typical York...

Nah, don't blame it on eagles. The Wiscasset bypass would have cost north of $100 million and Route 1 traffic was already trending downwards for years when it was cancelled: https://www.clf.org/blog/shelving-the-wiscasset-bypass-is-smart/ MaineDOT simply doesn't have the money to throw away on...

The RR bridge has been partially demolished already. The pilings on the southern approach (from the E. Prom to the steel swing span) were set on fire a few years ago, and have since been removed. My hunch is that it would be extremely difficult to rebuild that bridge at this point with federal...

The city doesn't own the Oxford Street shelter. They lease it from a private owner for a whopping $164,000 a year (or $13,600/month): https://www.pressherald.com/2021/05/03/estimates-for-a-new-homeless-shelter-in-portland-approach-20-million/

A couple more: Front Street phase 1 (60 units in 4 buildings) is under construction in East Deering: 337 Cumberland (60 new apartments and a daycare expansion in a new 6-story building) is getting ready to go under construction in the next few months: Douglass St. cooperative housing (112...

I think you're right – in fact, I'm pretty sure it'll be the first ever development to complete its "master development plan" since the city established the new multi-phase development rules for the unbuilt 'midtown' project >8 years ago.

Biked by here this weekend, and noticed that they're finally beginning to raise some steel after 1.5 years of demolition and foundation work.

Some more renderings here: https://www.foundation.usm.maine.edu/s/300/images/gid1001/editor_documents/usm_cfa_renderings_final.pdf?gid=1001&pgid=61

The biggest liability for the Public Market was the giant parking garage that got pegged onto it, whose capital and operating costs required the nonprofit operators to charge exorbitant rents for the stalls next door. A lot of small vendors couldn't afford it.

It's hard to read, but it looks like the billboard for the Maineway Plaza in Portlander's first photo says that the building would have been designed by The Architects Collaborative. That was Walter Gropius's firm in Cambridge MA, one of the most prominent modernist architecture firms of the...

That's the 'interim' condition built with paint and temporary materials; the plan is still to completely rebuild the street with new curbs and wider sidewalks sometime in the next 1-2 years. https://mass.streetsblog.org/2020/10/28/city-unveils-proposed-designs-for-state-street-in-downtown-boston/

Also worth remembering that the garage was planned over 20 years ago (!) in the "New Vision for Bayside" plan - which, I think it's safe to say in hindsight, was an overall failure. One of the assumptions of that 1990s-era Bayside plan was that the "Midtown" lots would be developed with...

As I understand it, deed restrictions dissolve if/when a government seizes property by eminent domain. So a couple things are going on here: With the deed restriction - i.e, if the lot can only be used for a parking garage - the land has *negative* value. In other words, the market definitely...

...and they pay dearly for that revenue, with multimillion-dollar coaching contracts, athlete scholarships, and pork barrel facilities that only benefit a handful of "students". Most of these state schools are public, so the revenue and spending data are all freely available, and show that big...

1.5 mile, center-running busway proposal for the Lynnway: https://mass.streetsblog.org/2021/07/14/state-agencies-seek-to-transform-the-lynnway-with-new-bike-path-and-bus-rapid-transit/

Anyone else find the rooftop views here surprisingly unimpressive? You're mostly looking at parking lots.

Unless you live in this building on the Free Street site – in which case you're getting headlights in your windows (and don't even think about opening them or else you'll get carbon monoxide poisoning).

@TC_zoid There was absolutely lots of slavery happening in the colonies, including Massachusetts/Maine, in the 1500s and 1600s. People usually cite 1619 as the year the African slave trade started, but well before that, there was a lot of enslavement of local Native Americans. So it's definitely...

I'm pretty sure @Portlander is right. It used to be on the Portland Yacht Services property when it was on the East End, so it makes sense if it's been moved. PYS's blue-blooded owner claims that Cleeve is a distant ancestor and wants the city to accept it into its public art collection. The...