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Has the height been reduced on the right, or are they still building?

Let's expand that thought a little ... lol

I will say that driving by here (I live hear the high school) this is a massive improvement for that area. I wish all of the other apartments etc would start to update their facades. I wouldn't mind a similar building for the "Grange Hall" looking place set back on the other side of the...

Interesting new real estate listings: 522 Washington Ave 526 Washington Ave These are in North Deering just over Tukey's Bridge ... maybe a place for some larger housing redevelopment. Or something Roux Institute could eye for housing.

Ah - I thought they were required to keep it, as the first development renderings didn't include it. All before they were also forced to scale down the height of their proposal as well. I think it'd be cool - with new black windows ... to flip the colors on this building. Paint it dark blue or...

Is there anything barring Roux from painting the old B&M Building? I'd rather the building had been demolished, but obviously got some kind of historic landmark attribution. I was thinking it might not look "as bad" if they painted it a solid color ... black, dark blue, bright white, idk ...

Hmm, I could use a couple of trees ... they moving them or just destroying them? lol

THIS ^^^

Do Franklin Tower next.

Lots of buildings have a past. They don't need to have historical importance to be saved either. I'm not of the Portland mindset that everything should be preserved. Old Chamber of Commerce on Free St? Raze it, I didn't blink. But - Maine (and the US in general) made some pretty stupid...

At this point in history - and given our American love for razing buildings for stupid reasons - I'd think preserving ANYTHING with notable architectural detail would be worth it. It's far better than any of the Lego 80's Eastern European Drab garbage built and proposed all over the place now...

ie: the "Container" store ... or "Crate and Barrel" ... or gray pastels "Lego"

The staggered cladding in the middle portion makes my eyes tweak. WHY?

Their whole portfolio is Eastern-European uggo ...

Which grayhound station? The one by Maine Med?

So this bit here ....

I remembered that a big portion of the new building will be an overhang with a connector closer to the old factory. So what we truly is just "part" of the beast.

I literally thought: Oh ... so they're stacking shipping containers? The whole thing would look "better" if the "middle sections" of windows aligned with the rest. Stylistically, it's giving me 1980's hotel vibes. If the "brown sections" are wood - those are going to age and discolor over...

This might also be controversial - but everything from 146 Washington Ave through 210 (on that side of the street) should just be removed and rebuilt.

277 Cumberland Ave Portland - btw https://www.bldup.com/projects/boys-girls-club-of-southern-maine