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I'm happy at least that the Congress Street facing elements will break ground. It'll be so much better than what's there.

Pity that doesn't include the area on Congress next to City Hall (Top of the Old Port)

I hadn't been paying attention to the area for a while, but now that the trees are bare I noticed the "Westbrook Senior Housing Project" near the HS is pretty far along. I didn't even know they had broken ground.

I often thought that USM should auction off the buildings on Bedford Street so they could be relocated. There had been talk about "closing" Bedford street to traffic. With Chamberlain and Washburn Ave's abutting I:295, I could see USM acquiring all of that land to develop and have added...

Interesting Update ... USM appears to be selling some of their properties on Chamberlain Street. These are some of the houses they've used for Administrative Offices. Perhaps with the new Student Center and other shifts, they're consolidating these offices more on-campus. In prior years, there...

I guess you could always go with: Dirigo Resurgam The Casco The Cumberland The Phoenix Redfern Heights The NIMBY Notable Portland Names to Consider: Wadworth-Longfellow, Percival Baxter, John Calvin Stevens, Thaddeus Clark, Charles Alexander, Francis Fassett, Alexander Parris, Henry Rowe...

This is brilliant. Please publish this as an editorial piece to PPH.

I thought there was a plan for the mall to add housing all along the surrounding parking lots?

Renaming it and all the criticism is stupid. If that were really an issue - we'd have to rename a ton of rivers, mountains, islands, locations. Are we supposed to completely erase the history of the past in order to be virtuously guilt free? NGL this is effing STUPID.

Beautiful city. And so many lovely parking lots. Looks ripe for a 20-30+ story tower clad in glass.

Do not what?

It blows my mind that anyone on Winter Street [et al.] would balk at this. The remodel of the hospital looks GORGEOUS and the new housing will be attractive. Far better than the parking lot and emergency room entrance. If I had to look out my windows at what was there and what is to come - I'd...

So basically a month later - still no new activity on the site. This doesn't bode well. So much for that cash infusion?

Forest City Lounge

This has been a beautiful renovation. Great work!

Are they building something in front of the parking garage (dirt patch), or did they just re-grade the lawn?

They could really build something significant on this site. It'd be a huge disappointment if a developer stops at a stubby 4-story thing.

Apparently there was just an Affordable Housing conference in Portland to address the above. One thing they noted was that UMaine has 3D Printed some homes that are exceeding expectations and are suitable for our climate.

Understood. From an architectural standpoint (thus this forum), I disagree. I fervently dislike the cookie cutter buildings that are going up in Portland. It's as if a second grader took colored blocks and decided "sure, this works!". None of them will age well, which lends to my previously...

Am I really the only one who thinks the Toshiko Mori is ugly as hell? It doesn't fit in Portland and won't age well. Architecturally speaking, "saw tooth" is a hard no. Waves? Yeah, no. Might as well just stick the "Tracing the Fore" sculpture on top. It'll be just as hideous. The museum...