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Thanks for this — I see the article says EMUs for the Hartford Line, but isn’t that line still diesel-only? I’d love if they’d convert to electric (those idling diesel engines are so loud and smelly).

100 Fore Street and next this are huge pedestrian dead zones between the Old Port / India Street neighborhoods and the Eastern Waterfront. Adding insult to injury: the private rooftop social spaces for employees to enjoy the waterfront, rather than creating an active, human street front to the...

I hope someone from the City is applying for this available grant money! https://smartgrowthamerica.org/program/community-connectors-grants/ Let’s get the Franklin Street redesign underway sooner than later — and open up some of the newly configured street for more housing.

The proposal should read "37 parking spaces + 12 housing units" if it's trying to be accurate. I'm forgetting, are we in a "housing crisis" or a "parking crisis"? These buildings look great but that is way too much emphasis on vehicles for today's world.

I'm sure this is just a partial list, but these are the ones I can think of that were built or approved over the last seven years or so, which adds up to about 3,300 units: Port Properties Bayside: 805 units proposed Portland Foreside: 600 units proposed Mercy State Street: 405 units proposed...

Sure, but it's the right kind of strategic thinking, which sets a bar to work toward with an established benefit. And if the City of Westbrook would up-zone the allowable density for the lots facing routes 25 and 25A – making it cost prohibitive to *not* re-develop to higher densities – then it...

I agree that the stairway would be better father from the corner (corners being the most-valuable leasable space and offering the most interior light), and could hopefully be just as cost-efficient on the one of the other two existing window stacks on that wall.

Maybe they should re-brand this soulless place The Downer.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immigrant-population-over-time The total numbers are bigger but the percentage is lower. Unless one is Native American, one is an immigrant. 😬 just saying!

One look at the Historic Portland thread and anyone can see that Portland was founded with density and a diversity of land uses and job types all intermingled – and if you look at historic photos of most Maine towns, most of them had dense cores of housing, jobs and recreation intermingled too...

Looks like 107 1-bedroom residential units (70% of bldg) and 30% office space.

Agree, it’s what the developer could afford AND it’s affordable housing, which is a very thin category these days, so while it is ugly AF 😂 it is providing housing for an underserved community. Unless the City can line up an award-winning design team to work pro-bono for low-income developers...

Also, the Port Properties proposal clearly stated (more than once) that almost all of these new developments would be over current surface parking lots for the foreseeable future.

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The section of Forest between the Hood / USM block and Park Avenue/ Park Street is a pedestrian disaster area — Could certainly benefit for from a "community design thinking" workshop. The blocks between USM / Hood and Woodford's Corner could be better utilized for housing and is a potential...

For those of us without a subscription, what are the latest details, please?

A Freeport Campus makes sense for an Outdoor Lifestyle brand, but I agree about the buses. A light rail line from Commercial Street, over to the Roux campus, through Falmouth to connect with the ROW of the mainline RR could shuttle passengers directly to Freeport Village Station. And be electric.

… and if that streetcar line could then turn from Franklin onto Commercial, which is already wide enough for a center-running streetcar (if delivery trucks weren’t ‘parking’ there all day) then the line could turn north again along St John Street and pass the “New Union Station” and then begin...

I believe the mid-last-century routes between Portland (and points northeast) and New York City (and points South, to Washington) did not stop in / near Boston. The route can be explored here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Harbor_Express

The current station is not on the mainline tracks between points north and south of Portland, so it’s requiring a route deviation to reach the PTC, then the train has to back up onto the mainline in order to proceed. It’s a waste of time, fuel, everything.