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In Manhattan (NYC) now, some or many hi-rise office buildings are undergoing conversions to housing. I don't think anyone can see the downtown core along Congress Street coming back to office space, condos or hotel with the present miscreants and drug addicts. However, put together an incentive...

Ha! Concord Coach last month from the Portland station to half-way across the Mystic River bridge--91 minutes. I checked my phone--more than de facto, but actual. I'm not talking about grandma in her Subaru. Follow the Boston arch blog and you will see what is happening in Boston. It's kind of...

When a small city with significantly less to offer is relatively close to a much larger one (90 minutes drive now from Portland to Boston), people will travel there for many reasons. Remember, before there was Fore Street and a few other restaurants, and the Sea Dogs, there was little if...

With the requisite female mannequins in lingerie out front.

Great location but this building in itself is a de facto turkey. The back has undergone a kind of franken-addition. And the pillars facade, again (a la the old children's museum) is outdated or not really conducive to a re-purpose. It's not the Lincoln Memorial here. Bring out the wrecking ball...

And the Roux Institute's (Northeastern) new campus is just off the peninsula (north) and when the first phase is finished (2027?) something close to 2,000 students will need to find housing. They decided to not build the original planned residential tower (16 stories?) yet to not upset the...

A few miles south of Portland's peninsula The Downs development is creating substantial residential and business growth. In 7-10 years the housing units will reach to 1,500 and there are already over 50 businesses. https://www.thedowns.com/discover/#directory-anchor

I used to take the Downeaster to Boston a lot. At North Station, or before the new automated scan entry setup, "bums" would come in and hang out and sometimes sleep on the benches (lacquered wooden benches, a real kind of bench that is longer and curved around--lol). Boston PD would come by and...

No, not really. With today's obesity, just one. If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck and it looks like a duck...

Those are 2 seaters, bro. I'm talking the classic 3 seater with the back and sides. You don't roll off those when sleeping, like on a couch. And a 2 seater does not work with 2 strangers seated, so it's not really a bench, or in the practical public usage sense. It's one end for you, the other...

Careless drug use will always remain for this segment of the population, or almost any other. The key is to get the drug use indoors, or away from others. If someone wants to live their life this way, then let them. But not in the middle of the city where safety is an issue. Addiction requires a...

This is primarily an enforcement problem. Homelessness on the streets, the proverbial "bum asking for change," has always been around. Defacing property with graffiti is a crime. Selling and purchasing and using illegal drugs is a crime. Police need to get back to walking the streets in pairs...

I like how it has no benches, or that long one that is perhaps too narrow to spread out on. You don't want a pocket homeless addiction park, of which is a real possibility now.

Thank you for posting this brave picture. If you go to Google Street view images from this location appear that aren't much different. I'd copy the recent NY Times article and post it as a slide show, but I don't want to make everyone in our blog cry. There is seriously failed leadership in...

Interestingly, Kaplan Thompson has built the best designed and thought-out affordable housing in Portland (and South Portland with the adjoining 5 story structures just south of the Jetport). And on the flip side to that, builds homes for the rich in Maine, NH, and MA. Their designs and Green...

Developing all of these empty lots for building towers with mostly affordable housing is going to destroy or inhibit whatever Bayside could become for improvement. I like the master planning here (see below image) from the city of Lewiston allowing Kaplan Thompson to kind of take over. I think...

Yes, it's when new people come into a neighborhood and buy homes. They care more.

I do not have confidence in the city to handle this. Please, please call Redfern and let them COMPLETELY take over. Reveler would be another good choice. The city has allowed parts of the downtown to fall into a de facto dystopia. It is capable of passing on control of these lots to an entity or...

If someone had sent me a picture of this building before I knew what it was, I would have asked, are they taking it down? Where is it? Flint, MI? Toledo? Jackson, Mississippi? But really, Cambridge at Harvard? How does this happen?

My alma mater, Thornton Academy and its new fieldhouse progress. It will have a 2nd level running track (nice). I realize the school has over 300 foreign students, and with its latest Instagram marketing, are they back to a focus on Chinese students? I checked into the cost last year for a...