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I know if you look up at the ceiling of the Merrill, the paint looks as bad as it did before the massive renovation. Granted, I have no idea what it would take to repaint it giving the height, but it still looks bad. I have no insight on the loading dock (and my memories of the Congress St. area...

Chron.com, the "free version of the Houston Chronicle," has a story up containing the announcement of the new PWM-IAH route with the title (at least in their clickbait sidebar) "United Airlines announces direct service from Houston to chilly spot". The story itself includes a subheading reading...

I want to know why there is no Pavilion "B" wing. IIRC, Pavilion "A" is the older one, perpendicular to the end of the old Maine General building, Pavilion "C" is the one buing built immediately alongside it in the above photo, with the end on Bramhall St., and Pavilion "D" is the shorter wing...

I wonder if the plan to build a new ramp at Rigby is dead. At the same time, I wonder if the containers could hold materials for the reefer racks; big steel girders seem like something that rail could handle well.

I suppose it depends on whether you like your Portland smooth and elegant, or chunky and lower-brow. I never met or rented from him, but when Joe Soley was at his prime, his buildings (many of which were the upper-floor apartments in the old Old Port buildings) may have been considered...

If FFY means Federal Fiscal Year, FFY 2026 would begin October 1, 2025. But if they're advertising for design services for projects dated FFY 2025 (which we're already in), I have to think that's when the design will be worked on? Are they going to relocate the access road and reconstruct the...

I do think that overall it would be ridiculous, but I can think of another use case for it: taking the train to Fordham or another college on the Metro North system. No sense in going all the way to midtown if you're trying to get to Fairfield or the Bronx. My brother used to do that at times...

Uh.... maybe they're doing this as a nostalgia trip for those of us who remember the old terminal on Westbrook St.? https://maps.app.goo.gl/MKbdRKB69bje4TwX9

In general, I'm not a fan of the tall, skinny tower look; witness the Cracker Box in Manhattan. At the same time, the Commerce Building didn't match anything else in the city when it was built. I'm in a "wait and see if it actually moves forward" mode.

TC, your first responsibility is to send a rack of Dos Equis to everyone in the forum!

For those with better things to do with their time who may not know, the Portland subreddit (r/portlandme) has recently gotten a bunch of posts and comments regarding The Continental, the English pub fare restaurant / bar that has taken over the former 7-Eleven at St. John and Brighton. So many...

What are the brown items in Subarea A? Storage units? External-entrance motels? I can see why there's no entrance onto the Arterial, though; this land doesn't abut the existing light at Larrabee. The fact that there are two roads that dead-end at the property line of the parcel that DOES abut...

https://www.pressherald.com/2024/11/27/proposal-to-add-parking-at-portland-jetport-delayed-two-more-months/ Grumble.

Seeing the lots this way makes me wonder if the Hyatt has any air rights easement over the CMP lot, just so their rooms don't wind up staring at a point-blank wall.

I asked, and unfortunately they said the market wouldn't support a building tall enough to beat City Hall Plaza in ManchVegas.

The private owners are still making tons of money with little overhead; that's why it's still there. I'm still surprised it didn't get the 325' limit, unless someone on the Recode committee was spiting the ownership. Considering part of the plan for Bayside involves extending Pearl all the way...

So now they want to fight with Rock Row?

I think it's also that, when deregulation made the industry more competitive, competing on price became the norm, which democratized air travel but the reduced income per seat had to be balanced somewhere. in fact, I just looked on WP, and Braniff itself ceased flight operations in 1982...

The runoff is a good point; everything in that area, around Western Ave. and the Turnpike interchange, that isn't paved is a wetland full of cattails. If the runoff can be dealt with, the next question that comes to my mind is, how can the Turnpike interchange ramps be graded in and out of the...

But is there demand for that many TATL seats out of Portland? Longer runway gets you bigger jets, which means more seats that need to be filled. I can't foresee Portland having the volume to compete with BOS, of course, but as an economic matter I think if we could get one or more of the...