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It's a little hard to find, so here's the regional permitting numbers broken down by year and municipality from the GPCOG website: https://www.greatmaineneighborhoods.org/housing-dashboard Caveats: these numbers include renovations, which aren't affected by IZ, and they also include vacation...

So, once again, this chart is showing something different from the charts in either of the previous posts. It's showing building permits, which lag actual housing completions by 1-2 years. There was a spike in 2022 partly because of a backlog of projects that were held up during the pandemic...

@DZH22, you've been duped into posting misleading reactionary ragebait from our dumbest social media site, which is exactly what social media is for, so congratulate yourself and send me $8 for a meaningless blue checkmark. This chart shows "units completed by year of approval". It typically...

Nice find! According to Open Corporates, "ST J HOUSING LLC" was incorporated in March with an address at the law offices of Drummond Woodsum: https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_me/202609116DC I'd note that Drummond Woodsum does a fair amount of work for affordable housing developers.

Big news on this one: Penobscot General Contractors and Acorn Engineering have applied for a demolition permit to take down the existing building and a building permit to start work on the new one...

Proposed 54-unit Portland Housing Authority apartment building, replacing a parking lot and an older 5-unit building next to Maine Medical Center:

I think Redfern also needs to raise the ground floor elevation on the Lancaster Street parcels in order to mitigate flooding risks – which is why you see steps leading up to the building entrance on the renderings. Banks won't finance a building that's expected to be below the high-tide line...

Folks, LiveNation has literally been ruled guilty in federal court for running an illegal monopoly, gouging millions of dollars from concertgoers, and drowning out legitimate competition. First rule of any city's economic development: don't let crooks murder off the beating heart of your city's...

51K jobs AND 47,000 residents. Commute-to-work trips are a significant source of ridership (1 job generally means 2 daily trips to and from work, although it's a little less than that with post-pandemic working-from-home trends). But other household-based trips – for medical appointments...

Here's Avesta's proposal for 15-19 Cedar Street, a now-empty lot that was until recently a small single-family home and currently owned by the Boys and Girls Club. The plan calls for a 5-story building with 30 apartments. This would fulfill the Boys and Girls Club's legal obligation to replace...

They're not done yet – the exterior cladding is going up right now – but I think they look great already.

Photos of Front Street Phase 3, 8 new affordable homeownership townhouses in East Deering on Presumpscot Street, from the Portland Housing Authority. It's all modular construction, so I think the structures literally went up in a matter of days:

Definitely. If you look at the tax maps, you can see how the ROW gets even wider near the Arterial for a cloverleaf highway interchange that they never built. A few years ago, IIRC, MaineDOT transferred some of that interchange land to the Westbrook Housing Authority.

I wonder if they're holding out for Westbrook and our cash-strapped MaineDOT to sell off some of the Larrabee Road right-of-way. If you look at tax maps, Larrabee Road has a 200' right-of-way. That's absurdly wide – wider than the Zakim Bridge that carries 10 lanes of Interstate 93 into...

Portland Housing Authority is poised to acquire 879 Congress Street – this gravel parking lot and the small white apartment building next to it – for a new mixed-use building, targeting about 60 apartments. MaineHealth is reportedly providing some funding to help acquire the property, in the...

I'm also baffled by the failure to consider a station above Park Ave, for all the reasons you mention. The railroad bridge over Park used to have 6 tracks, so there's plenty of room there for a station track (or even two station tracks) flanked by two new platforms, with no need for any property...

A press release from MaineHealth about the closure of the St. Joseph's Manor nursing home: https://www.mainehealth.org/news/2024/09/saint-josephs-rehabilitation-and-residence-transfer-operations-september

Wow! I hadn't realized that this had already sold, that's great news. The price seems low for a site with that much potential. I think the former owner was MaineHealth if I recall correctly – which, as the city's biggest employer, has a strong financial interest in making more middle-income...

There's another new Avesta site plan application for 30 apartments on Cedar Street, replacing 2 single-family homes that were demolished fairly recently: https://selfservice.portlandmaine.gov/EnerGov_Prod/selfservice#/plan/291e8de8-20d0-4a54-b93f-6baa4840feaa?tab=attachments Googling for more...

Demolition progress: