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Isn’t it too late in this zone to plant? All the renderings for this area included plantings so it seems likely they would get planted in … April/May?

“Bueller? … Bueller? …”

Any updates on this beauty?

This is the point. Truly great cities are defined by the street-level experience.

Well, Le Courbusier designed a Paris plan with hundreds of much taller buildings but it seems to have done just “fine” with the mostly six- or seven-story buildings Haussmann specified. And it’s still one of the most dense, use-diverse and dynamic cities in the world. Portland lost so much...

Hopefully not another Portland Square decades-long freeze but this would at least be more attractive than the abandoned printing press building.

It does seem the the highest allowable limit should’ve in Bayside — away from the remaining core and with high visibility from the interstate and across the cove; from South Portland, the height could be enough to still be viewable and dramatic without sacrificing any more of the integrity of...

Note to Fathom and JNS before they go carving the address in stone: “The site is on Congress STREET and there is, to my knowledge, no Congress AVENUE in Portland, Maine.”

Overall a pleasing "look" and the variety of quality materials creates a feeling of a quality development. I hope they could still improve the street-level facades however, where the building just looks like a hulking garage with long blank walls along the sidewalks facing City Hall and Merrill...

new website too: www.58fore.com

Since it must be zoned Commercial and has excellent visibility from the Interstate, it feels like an office building with vanity signage is most likely, but given its proximity to the former (and potentially future) Union Station/Amtrak Portland station, as well as it’s proximity to the...

Maybe, since this is a connector, they’re conflating the nomenclature.

Because I thought the conversation was about I-395.

This is labeled as Route 9 — was there a page showing I-395?

It does appear to be a whole lot of open parking lots, but it’s great to read this list of actual water-based industries that are interspersed. 👍

Merrill’s is the warehouse converted to lawyers offices — and there was a proposal for A mixed-use development at Fisherman’s Wharf that was rejected on the pretext of being not marine-related that is a prime example of this unbalanced zoning “enforcement.”

That conversion is a variance.

Right? Zoning says anything built east of Commercial Street (water side) has to be marine-based / marine-supporting but there is no way that all of those fields of parking are for fishermen/women or the staff supporting marine-based business – but there's no requirement for car parkers to...

Is there an architectural firm listed in any of these documents yet?

The parking entrances and first floor retail opportunities look considerably improved from last round. Now hopefully the City will hold them to the plans despite the inevitable value-engineering in coming rounds.