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On that note since floors 2-6 will be residential, I'm guessing that the windows facing Commercial will feature curtains or other privacy mechanisms that will be routinely employed, so the impact on the streetscape may be different than an office building like WEX down the street.

It will be a 4-story building with 30 affordable rental units.

Looks like they've updated the renderings to include more glass. I'll be curious how the HPB reacts to this. Commercial Street is dominated by brick, but the early renderings for the new Maine Public headquarters down at the eastern end of the street are calling for mostly or all glass.

They've added a site narrative and some renderings to the application materials. My first thought is that the proposal has not changed much from what we saw last year, except that the senior living facility has been replaced with another condo building. Other than that the renderings look...

I think the directive from Mr. Roux was to use his $100 million gift to open a school in Maine, and specifically in Portland, so I don't think there's any concern about them locating elsewhere. And at this point it's hard to imagine them pulling out of this location. I never saw a purchase...

I'll withhold judgment on the sculpture until I see it in person... but I'm glad this project is finally getting underway. My understanding is only the street and intersection redesign is happening this year, and the actual redesign of the park with installation of the art piece will likely...

According to this article they made offers on four other properties before settling on this location. It's a bit hard to believe with the size of their coffers they weren't able to make one of their preferred locations work. I think they are going to get a lot of pushback from neighbors (they...

No attachments yet. Usually attachments don't show up until a project gets closer to a public hearing. I am curious whether this proposal is grandfathered under the previous IZ workforce housing ordinance of 10% of units at 120% AMI, or whether the new standard of 25% at 80% AMI will apply. I...

It certainly appears they're making a renewed effort to generate interest in this office building. I know the developer (North River) is primarily engaged in commercial development, but given the housing shortage I'm surprised they haven't considered a massive residential or at least mixed-use...

Looks like they've filed a new MDP for this site. No renderings yet, but the text info indicates one new building, 312 housing units, 152 hotel rooms and 387 parking spaces. So it sounds like one massive building with housing/hotel over parking. Will be interesting to see renderings...

Unfortunately it looks like they are in fact using this site for parking. It's a muddy mess but United Parking Partners has got their whole rig set up, so one would guess they're going to use it as parking at least for the summer. Hopefully it's temporary.

I think the ship has sailed on the question of the campus location. I would have preferred to see them develop the Top of the Old Port lot, it's the center of the peninsula and makes the most sense in terms of visibility and accessibility. Supposedly they looked at it but it didn't work out...

Perhaps you can have written into the leases that everyone on the 18th floor must leave their lights on and blinds open all night? Presto, we've got the top lit up!

Interesting stuff! Prefab means the walls will already be fully built before they're put up in pieces, right? So we won't see a steel skeleton go up followed by a filling in of the walls, correct?

Steel was being moved around today, but nothing discernibly vertical happening yet.

I walked by and saw what appeared to be steel stacked on the ground, but didn't notice anything new vertically.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that these might become the most expensive condos in Portland. If I recall, the developers of the cPort building at the corner of Middle and India tried to sell the top two floors as a single condo unit for just north of $2 million. As best I can tell it...

Looks like there's a new proposal for a 6-story building at 185 Commercial Street, on an existing parking / patio area between Wharf and Commercial. Proposal is calling for retail on floors 1 and 2 and five residential units on 3-6. Seems like they're making the most of a tight lot. I'm...

According to a group of concerned East Deering neighbors the former smokestack was 150 feet: https://portlandphoenix.me/east-deering-neighbors-apprehensive-about-roux-institute-proposal/

After the B&M site was announced, there was an article in MaineBiz and their broker said something like "we looked at all the usual suspects" on the peninsula, which I would assume includes the Top of the Old Port parking lot. I agree that this would have been the ideal location in terms of...