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Interesting choice by architects, planners and the institution to place the Child Care center as an extension of the seven story parking structure, so the children will be as close as possible to the gas-fumes of those humdreds of vehicles —

What about “Skyline” and “Cobblestone” lounges —

If they could find it in the budget to add some depth to the windows and have actual differentiation in depth where the materials change, it would really help a lot to reduce the monolithic effect. I also wish they would consider moving the rooftop 'arcade' from the lowest part of the site to a...

I really appreciate the Academic Building's thoughtful design and the way it maximizes the water views and creates a welcoming courtyard. Unfortunately the concrete box of a Parking Structure will be the tallest, bulkiest and potentially most prominent building on the site. In the renderings the...

Or Compass for the two lines that cross North–South, East–West?

Toshiko Mori PMA Free Street entry

Toshiko Mori — the architect of that “runner up” plan — is also a Maine resident, and the plan did build around that historic building, so I really don’t understand how her team wasn’t chosen. A real miss by the PMA board.

Interesting to read the questions from the “Westbrook Downtown Development” website, for example: “Parking garages are unsafe for women and at risk of fire since there will be electric charging spaces in the garage.” The answer: “The City recognizes that some may feel unsafe when parking in a...

Thanks for this — I see the article says EMUs for the Hartford Line, but isn’t that line still diesel-only? I’d love if they’d convert to electric (those idling diesel engines are so loud and smelly).

100 Fore Street and next this are huge pedestrian dead zones between the Old Port / India Street neighborhoods and the Eastern Waterfront. Adding insult to injury: the private rooftop social spaces for employees to enjoy the waterfront, rather than creating an active, human street front to the...

I hope someone from the City is applying for this available grant money! https://smartgrowthamerica.org/program/community-connectors-grants/ Let’s get the Franklin Street redesign underway sooner than later — and open up some of the newly configured street for more housing.

The proposal should read "37 parking spaces + 12 housing units" if it's trying to be accurate. I'm forgetting, are we in a "housing crisis" or a "parking crisis"? These buildings look great but that is way too much emphasis on vehicles for today's world.

I'm sure this is just a partial list, but these are the ones I can think of that were built or approved over the last seven years or so, which adds up to about 3,300 units: Port Properties Bayside: 805 units proposed Portland Foreside: 600 units proposed Mercy State Street: 405 units proposed...

Sure, but it's the right kind of strategic thinking, which sets a bar to work toward with an established benefit. And if the City of Westbrook would up-zone the allowable density for the lots facing routes 25 and 25A – making it cost prohibitive to *not* re-develop to higher densities – then it...

I agree that the stairway would be better father from the corner (corners being the most-valuable leasable space and offering the most interior light), and could hopefully be just as cost-efficient on the one of the other two existing window stacks on that wall.

Maybe they should re-brand this soulless place The Downer.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immigrant-population-over-time The total numbers are bigger but the percentage is lower. Unless one is Native American, one is an immigrant. 😬 just saying!

One look at the Historic Portland thread and anyone can see that Portland was founded with density and a diversity of land uses and job types all intermingled – and if you look at historic photos of most Maine towns, most of them had dense cores of housing, jobs and recreation intermingled too...

Looks like 107 1-bedroom residential units (70% of bldg) and 30% office space.

Agree, it’s what the developer could afford AND it’s affordable housing, which is a very thin category these days, so while it is ugly AF 😂 it is providing housing for an underserved community. Unless the City can line up an award-winning design team to work pro-bono for low-income developers...