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They have submitted an application to demolish the old children's museum.

Was sad I was unable to make the tour yesterday but saw this view of the tower coming off Munjoy Hill. What a presence it makes from this direction!

Unfortunately I need to bow out. I have too much else going on but thank you!

Maintenance of underground utilities is incredibly cheaper in the long run than the cost of having to be constantly trimming trees away from lines and the repairs to lines caused by storms. I grew up in a city out west with buried utilities and never once did we lose power.

Is there an update on the tour scheduled for 9/20?

Unfortunately, many of the trees along the arterial are already approaching the end of their lives. Large trees such as these also rarely survive transplantation. There are beautiful oaks that would be nice to save but they have taproots and rarely survive. I am a horticulturist/landscape...

I totally agree. Redfern is proving themselves to be a responsible, forward thinking development partner.

If this project comes to fruition in this iteration including the roof gardens I think it could be a pretty cool concept. The chances of that happening though are likely ZERO. I'd also like to see a little more height to these buildings but of course the NIMBY's would have a field day with that.

It's a trap ... we're being set up. LOL

I will be there with bells on. Thank you!

Yes. As a landscape designer and horticulturist I appreciate the fact that thought has been put into the landscaping and they didn't just throw some half dead trees in the ground as has occurred recently on a couple of other projects.

THAT is supposed to get us excited about what is to come??? It looks like an industrial storage site.

It is not an imaginary problem. If allowed, corporations will take the cheapest route to the end product. Mandating architectural design standards is a more and more common practice resulting in a more attractive built environment. Tell me, which of these is more desirable?

But it's in my favorite color palette, Soviet Bloc Greige! Architects are supposed to be creative beings but a good portion of them are just spitting out cookie cutter crap. The planning board needs to step up and demand better. You will not get anything more attractive unless you mandate it.

You would be correct on this one! This is my hometown airport. Bozeman has a population just under 15% that of the Portland metro area yet last year total passengers served just exceeded PWM at 2.26 million. For a city of it's size it probably has the best air service in the country if you...

That's a glowing description for Casper lol. It's obvious you have never spent much time in Wyoming.

By all means if you feel that strong about Payson Smith hall chain yourself to the fence. However there really is nothing architecturally significant about the building to save. It's pretty plain jane and could actually use a good makeover. BTW Payson Smith was a Tufts graduate.

Now if we can just move away from the gray and black color schemes.

Redfern, I would be curious what you had planted on this roof?

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