My big concern with Rock Row is that they have enough "national" name retailers to grow this project to its full potential. Local is great....but a lot of local businesses don't always have longevity and fade into the sunset eventually. A Food Hall is perfect for local businesses but filling...
Personally I think that it would be great to see Pottery Barn and Williams Sonoma come to Rock Row. Yes I am a typical American consumer contributing to the destruction of Earth....although I probably plant more trees than most.
Nothing is an easy fix in the USA…and more specifically, Maine…other parts of the world seem to get things done more quickly and efficiently. Here we listen to every loudmouth…even if they are not a stakeholder.
Portland is one of the fastest growing cities on the East Coast and Maine is being discovered and revisited by more people every year….PWM will only get busier from here on out…hopefully they are planning for the future now!
I think that USM will go private eventually.....it may still have "public" elements (like a BOD appointed by the state) but its development will be stymied if it continues to operate within the UM system.
New Hampshire should just be annexed to Maine, MA and Vermont. Maine gets Carroll, Belknap, Strafford & Merrimack......MA gets Cheshire, Hillsborough & Rockingham.....Vermont gets Sullivan, Grafton & Coos.
Yikes on MHT. Flew out of there once when Southwest first started flying out of there.....and that was that. I really hope that PWM gets something going to the West Coast someday...and Vegas as well.