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I'm pretty sure the pyramids went up faster than the Cambria Hotel! 🤣

I'm curious what's going in the other space at High and York -- anyone know? I've seen them working on the buildout recently and they've got the permit app on the door but it doesn't indicate who the tenant will be. It's a huge space...I'm assuming restaurant / bar. Hobson's Landing...

At an even more localized level, this will be more or less the tallest building in Maine! Your move, internet forum posters!

It's got to be a local store. I think the proliferation of Targets, Walgreens, Starbucks, Whole Foods and other national chains in our urban centers only contributes to them becoming more homogenous and boring. There are blocks of Manhattan now where the storefronts are all national brands...

I would like to see something like the French & Brawn market in downtown Camden, which is a great small grocery store with local flavor and some unique items. Something like Fresh Approach or Legion Sq Market but a bit more upscale and modern, perhaps offering name brand staples along with an...

Happy 4 year anniversary to this development! If memory serves, they started clearing the site around the middle of August, 2018. It looks like they have pushed back the opening of the hotel again -- the website is now allowing reservations starting October 12. The leasing of space to...

Yeah OK, names are reused a lot. I still don't like it. In American consciousness Herald Square is associated with NYC, Macy's, the Thanksgiving Parade, etc... And believe me I'm very annoyed that there's a major city in Oregon called Portland. If I could go back in history and change one...

You don't really realize until you get down there just how massive this development is...

Even though I understand the connection to the former Portland Press HERALD site, I gotta be honest I don't love the idea of using the same name as well known landmark in NYC. It would be like calling it Times Square or Lincoln Center or something... There's got to be a more unique name...

The latest moves from East Brown Cow (selling Foden Road, etc.) would seem to indicate they're gearing up for a big downtown project. This hotel tower seemed to be picking up speed just before Covid hit -- they had requested the zoning variance, they were far along with Safdie architects on the...

The Residences at SoCoNoMi (South of Congress, North of Middle). Do you work on your laptop all day and want to impress your far-flung co-workers with spectacular natural Zoom backgrounds of Portland Harbor or Back Cove? Want endless hipster dining options at your doorstep after a hard day on...

Looks like they're proposing to renovate floors 2-10 into residential units. I think it's a great idea and will contribute to the increasing vitality of downtown, but it represents a major change for what has been one of the city's premier commercial buildings for over a century!

I skimmed through the last HPB hearing on this proposal and the board seems like they're scrutinizing this building to an unnecessary degree. They basically keep coming back to the building seeming too busy or complex for Commercial Street. I think the architect has been responsive to their...

As best I can tell they've received approvals from the Planning Board and Historic Preservation, and last I knew they were going through the application process with National Park Service for approval of the historic preservation tax credits. At the last HPB hearing in the Spring the developers...

I'm of mixed feelings (not that it matters) about naming buildings. It seems a tad pretentious and unnecessary on the one hand, and I think calling a building by its address is cool and also eliminates the location question. "Yo -- I live at 201 Federal! Any questions?" Catherine -- any...

I think I read that the restaurant will only be open seasonally, so they don't have to worry about winter business for now. Based only my observations, I would say that year-round high-end restaurants are more feasible now than they were 15+ years ago, but the last two winters have been skewed...

The Phoenix published a piece about the zoning appeals board overturning the city's ruling on occupancy arrangements in the new SunLife building and this tidbit was in there: "Prentice was in Boston Monday, meeting with architects for the next step in the development, which is creating 250...

I think because they came back with a new MDP this year they are subject to the 25% of units at 80% AMI requirement.

Yeah that could be a factor. But for instance the developers of 385 Congress are going to have to adhere to GND and they've tentatively said they want to build the affordable units on site. I would think if you could build something on a massive scale like they could at this site then perhaps...

This seems like a remarkable development opportunity and I'm surprised it wasn't scooped up off-market by a developer. I suspect it will go for well over $499k, but in any case it would seem like you could do quite well by putting a luxury condo or apartment building on this site. The west...