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Do we know if this is still true? I recall being told that "only" commercial uses could be built on the lots back when the first RFP went out in 2007 or 2008, but after a couple of years, Federated proposed housing. At this point, the deed has changed hands several times, and so has the...

There have been a couple new places on Congress St that have opened up since the pandemic that might be up your alley: Novel (a coffee shop and bookstore between Congress and Longfellow Squares) and Another Round (a cafe and board game hangout spot, between Congress Sq. and Monument Sq.). Both...

It makes such a big difference filling in that street already. Can't believe that that lot was wasted for so long as a Bank of America drive-thru. Maybe if they'd managed their assets more intelligently they wouldn't have needed a $20 billion government bailout back in 2009.

A new combined fire/police station on one block wouldn't be the worst idea if it frees up the existing police station on Middle Street and the downtown fire station next to Lincoln Park for sale and redevelopment...

From the marketing website for the new "Seavey Terraces" (the new building for UNE students located off the Main/Cumberland rotary): https://www.seaveyterraces.com An adjacent Avesta Housing project is still under construction...

Was in the neighborhood the other evening and got some photos – most of the "town center" site has been cleared and prepped, with a lot of equipment on the Market Basket site, but it's just a massive mostly-empty plain of dirt with the new Cross Street Condos off to one side like a bizarre...

A bunch of new application materials have been posted to the city's CSS site: https://selfservice.portlandmaine.gov/EnerGov_Prod/selfservice#/plan/4720ba27-6754-49a3-85ee-4e2ca35fea23?tab=attachments

Some photos of the nearly-complete Cross Street Condos building in this week's Press Herald real estate section. Looks like a second elevator core is under construction next door in the second photo:

PSA, if there's a user whose posts are consistently bizarre and uninformative, I highly recommend using the "Ignore" option, and you'll never have to read them again. Find it by mousing over their user name next to one of their rants:

I biked out there this afternoon to visit REI – the whole place was very busy at 2:30 pm on a weekday. I have to say that in spite of the fact that it's absurdly impractical to get there without taking a car, the Rock Row site itself is unusually well designed for bike and pedestrian access...

Both cores look like they're topped out now...

My counterpoint would be that Portland's economy didn't suffer in 2006 when the Council enacted a short moratorium on franchise restaurants – in fact, the city entered a renaissance period for food and dining and attracted a surge in business and real estate investment (and Hooters, which...

There's an active building permit out right now for 110 Thames (the Sun Life building) for "Demolition and Reconstruction of existing TPO roofing system." Looks expensive! The Google Maps imagery (from 2024 or 2023?) definitely shows some issues with the old roof...

Lots of cities have tried arresting homeless people, over and over and over again. It doesn't work, and in fact, there's clear evidence that it makes it harder for homeless people to find housing, jobs, or manage addiction problems (obviously). Portland tried a "surge" of policing in Bayside...

Surprise! The Kaplan Thompson project you posted above is literally affordable socialist housing being built by the Lewiston Housing Authority (and for that matter, if you're a homeowner with a 30-year mortgage, you're also the beneficiary of a socialized system of federally subsidized housing...

Nice find! I was curious to note that the settlement didn't include Lot 6 – the one at the NE corner of Lancaster and Chestnut – but according to the city's tax assessor's map, that's already under City of Portland ownership. So it looks like the city's eminent domain proceedings for that lot...

The rendering makes the garage look closer than it will be IRL; the site plans on the planning board's website show a ~15 foot alley between this building and the garage, with some landscaping: The planning board unanimously approved the site plan for this project. The applicants also shared...

Proposed new 10-story residential building with 217 residential units and ground-level retail between the Public Market parking garage, Preble St., Oxford St., and Elm St. in Bayside. This project is getting its public hearing for planning board approval tonight...

Construction is underway on the Dewitt, a two-building project delivering 104 new mixed-income apartments next to Kennedy Park. This site had been a surface parking lot for decades. https://www.mainebiz.biz/article/two-new-apartment-buildings-are-underway-next-to-lewistons-kennedy-park...

Please take this in the spirit of some good-natured ribbing, but it seems to me that someone is just making up numbers based on some knee-jerk feelings? Google "portland public schools language demographics", ignore the AI slop at the top of the results, and you'll find this in about 5 seconds...