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I once saw some rendering of what the arena may have ended up looking like, the only difference was that I guess they wanted to put a parking garage next to it where the parking lot is not for the event vehicles. Other than that, I've never seen anything in terms of what buildings could have...

Huh, I suppose you're lucky that someones so interested in starting development in Portland, too bad that hasn't come along for Manch yet.

Wow, what he started out with was a little much I think. I guess two hotel towers could of been feasible because Portland does get a lot of tourists with cruises and such, but an arena that large, for what I can't imagine. Gillette holds somewhere in the ballpark as well and that's for the...

I'm sure they could break the limit if they wanted too, atleast in certain ares. Some planes do fly pretty low over downtown, so I don't know if they were going to build up, if they'd have to push further away from downtown. The river I'm pretty sure is the flight path guide, or w/e. So whatever...

Ya, I'm not sure if that building height limit is true, it wouldn't be a bad thing if it was, 300ft is decent, especially if there were like say 2 or 3 buildings of that height. Ya that site is great, I found it looking for those neighborhood initiative plans, and stumbled on all that. Most of...

Those are the Residences at Manchester Place, I've seen that plan around a bit, but I think it was nixed pretty early one, because there wasn't enough demand for TWO 21 floor apartment buildings. They actually had a hard time filling that place at first, now I think they're mostly rented. I...

That is interesting, sometimes it seems there is just too much land for one Mayor or board of alderman to take care of. It always drives me crazy when they rank cities by their population, and a place like Phoenix, which is 517sq miles, is ranked the 5th largest in the country, and Boston, at...

Ya that seems really interesting, for such a small place to be so well developed, they must have really had their stuff together to get that done. To me it seems a lot of the time smaller areas are able to keep themselves up better. I've always wondered if the city treated each of the 12 wards...

I think that's a wonderful idea, it would really establish downtown as the center of Manchester if something like that was done. Right now it's as if the downtown, and S. Willow St, the strip that's full of car dealers, chain restaurants, the mall, and Walmart, are competing. There are so many...

Yah I know what you mean about the town-city thing, I think it?s because Manchester, compared to other New England cities, Portland, New Haven, Hartford, Providence, etc, is much larger in area than those places. Manchester is 33sq miles while those places are about 20sq miles or below. When I...

Here are some more from later that afternoon. They're of the Currier Museum of Art, a few from the view of downtown at Derryfield Park, and then Stark Park (with the horse statue) which is just outside of downtown in the North End...

Thanks, ya there are way too many parking lots downtown, the plus with that though is there's plenty of space to develop. Was in Providence on Saturday, and was so jealous of their downtown lol. Something like a Providence Place would totally reinvent downtown.

A few pictures of the downtown area on November 9th 2009. http://s978.photobucket.com/albums/ae266/Muns1990/?action=view&current=DSC01180.jpg http://s978.photobucket.com/albums/ae266/Muns1990/?action=view&current=DSC01185.jpg...

Ted Gatsas won for mayor, which isn't totally bad, either one was better than what we have, but something terrible happened. The voters approved a tax cap, one gigantic step backwards for the city.

Does anyone know what is taking so long with this, it broke ground over a year ago, and it's still just a hole next to the Queen City Bridge.

Checked it out, seems to be a decent sized place, in MA though. Its funny how it is with RI being so small that it overlaps so so much with the surrounding states. Providence doesn't really seem to be more than 30 or so minutes from most parts of the state.

Before Providence Place was built, did the city have any sort of mall that sat on the outskirts or neighboring towns, and if it did, did it close down because of Providence Place?

Yes, I absolutely agree with you Patrick, and M. Brown, that's what I've been trying to get at all along, Manchester-Worcester-Providence. Especially Providence, I think the whole revitalization that has gone on there is amazing, and want something to that degree to happen for Manchester. Since...

Well I wish Manch would just use what it had to its advantage. Hopefully now that the recession is slowing, the city might be able to get some corporations that are starting to grow again to move to the city. Just want Manchester to have a more vital role in NH, and New England. If only every...

The schools are definitely a major player, I'm sure Providence would be a completely different place if say Brown wasn't there. Just like Yale is to New Haven. Providence Place is such a beautiful mall, and I guess they must of thought "if we build it they will come". Seems like it was a perfect...