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People waiting around during the day with nothing to do confronted by convenient and fun food trucks results in... I'd put a big tent in the parking lot with seating too. Bissell could shuttle food and brews over. Make traveling/waiting around fun again.

$32 million, and so by the time Portland would be ready for it's construction, maybe approaching $50 million? How do you justify that? And what about 24/7 security costs? I still think the best approach is to work with Concord Coach for a new terminal with dynamic food and drink options that...

That reminds me of Shreveport. Don't go there.

Another idea is yes, another renovation for the civic center, aka Cross Insurance Arena. Check out how Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis has changed with its new iterations (since 1999). CIA has more room if utilizing some of Spring Street. The roof should be raised, but not too much...

I think Redfern might be bluffing. Where is Roux going to house their 2,000 plus students in two years? But I agree for them getting an exception on the workforce housing stipulation.

I don't see New Haven as a destination other than for Yale. It has a lot of what I call, "HOP" activity on the streets downtown. "Hang Out People", and so you don't quite know what they are doing there, just standing, hanging out, with apparently no real purpose. I wouldn't say necessarily...

Is the idea to take this flight to New Haven, to then take an Uber/Lyft to the Amtrak station for the two-hour commuter train ride into Manhattan? I don't know about that. I'd rather do the Concord Coach bus that drops off near the U.N. building. True, 5.5 to 6.5 hours travel time, but you can...

Disagree. It's no longer simply old people going to see classical music there. Some of the Broadway tour shows they have featured are immensely popular with teenagers, or young women. If you remember, I discussed in this blog the back-to-back Taylor Swift concerts at NRG in Houston last year...

I kind of visit stadiums and arenas and music venues all over the country for my work, so I have some perspective on this. Portland does not have a music venue to fit the needs for today's customers and acts. Period. 1. Cross Insurance Arena.... lousy for sound and F&D offerings, but good on...

Got it. I'll circle back in May. Clear Channel would have nothing to do with this as what he does is primarily considered art, though he did brilliantly air-brush 35 foot-high Champagne bottles on the East 34th Street Heliport tarmac in Manhattan (use Google Earth to see). If he buys the image...

Also, Portlander, what about some dynamic wraps for compelling images on the walls? It's largely plain looking. I have a mural artist friend who does great work and just bought a massive new printer for it. The materials used today are fantastic and can even be put over brick! It kind of molds...

People go sailing in Back Cove?

I think the Jetport is due for substantial growth in a few years. At the MEREDA conference yesterday, a rep from Roux spoke and said the old bean factory that is being renovated is going to house 50-100 startups, and that they will primarily not be from Maine (as it is now), so many will be...

I've read that currently with remote students it's at about 2,000. When they finish the build, again 2,000 but attending on the campus. And I also read a number that was stated by Roux of 8,000 but then implied somewhere between 5 and 10 years. However, if you have more students wanting to...

In the PPH today, Redfern was quoted (Jonathan Culley) saying that their residential building proposal on Washington Ave., of which the Planning Dept approved on Tuesday for 325 apartments, will be for Roux students. It also has 80 units for "workforce housing", but the building only offers 11...

Oh, and if anyone has the contact information for the group that has been tasked with the new train station approval, please forward it to me. I will point out all of the stupidity here and have an attorney friend send a warning letter with relevant crime statistics that they will be held...

From considering this large residential development and the hotel, the train station's next location half-a-mile away becomes substantially less of a justification. If anything, new or different, I would build the parking garage and a new passenger terminal with dynamic food and drink offerings...

Can someone tell me or us what this large parking lot is for? Is something else--a building--on the way? It's next to UNE, so maybe I've answered my question. Seems a bit bold to do that though. And when this new athletic center or dorm is built, the irascible geezer with the lone house (and its...

400 graduate medical students from around the country and world will be studying here and they have no housing on or near the campus in a city undergoing a housing crisis. I'm truly amazed by the lack of logic from this university. But these students will have sources to pay for more expensive...

Last one. I promise.