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^ The demolition of the old buildings is almost finished. I'll try to grab a photo next time I'm going by. This also has its own project thread: https://archboston.com/community/threads/comb-block-boyd-oxford-portland.7030/

The buyer could make a good faith offer to the City of Portland (which owns the adjacent parking lot on Commercial Street) to build something that covers the entire block between Commercial and York in exchange for the preservation of some ground-level parking underneath the building. Or just...

Seems like a good sign that design work is still proceeding? Where did you find these?

GreenMars has applied for building permits for their 130-unit "Stroudwater Commons" project on outer Congress Street: https://selfservice.portlandmaine.gov/EnerGov_Prod/selfservice#/permit/8265f806-0a63-4537-a883-d400bd408a02

No details yet, but Avesta is planning something for the old Tortilla Flat restaurant site (which has a large lot and is a pretty good location for housing: next door to Hannaford, on two METRO routes, a 20 minute walk/5 minute bike ride to Talbot School and the community center, and a block...

Good lord, they're even cheaping out on the "temporary" structure. Compare the design from last fall to now:

The new Riverton Park apartment building, seen from Forest Avenue. Note the prefabricated CLT timber elevator cores – cheaper than cinder block masonry, and a lot better looking too IMHO

Market Basket is all framed out and getting its cladding: And the Intermed clinic across the street is framed out:

Brownfield cleanup site work has begun:

This site is next to Big Apple, but it's also next to the Eastern Cemetery and the upper floors are going to have incredible unobstructed views of the harbor over the cemetery. The "Hay Runner Block" proposal didn't just have underground parking, it was underground *robotic* parking – the site...

Speaking of Standish, I just was looking at property tax rates and found something pretty incredible. One of the longtime supposed advantages of places like Standish were lower property tax rates. But in a lot of those suburbs, tax burdens have been increasing fast with all the new cul-de-sacs...

Big caveats with this data: it's expressed in percentages, and it's not "new homes," it's "home sales." So towns with a relatively small number of overall home sales are going to be over-represented: if Standish goes from 10 home sales to 20, that's a 100 percent increase; if Portland goes from...

Those quadruple-triple deckers have 12 units each, and the Gorham proposal calls for "474 multifamily units in eight buildings, each four or five stories tall." So those buildings will have elevators, and probably double-loaded corridors, with an average unit count of 59 apartments per building...

If you think building a new stadium in an isolated location because it's easier to find parking there, and you won't bother any neighbors, I recommend investing in The Maine Guides circa 1983: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_Guides

Sunday 1/4, taken from Cumberland Avenue:

Domus, the "missing middle" development collaborative between Avesta, Herbert Construction, and Jack Soley, is proposing another multifamily proposal for Depot Street in Freeport – this would be just down the street from the project above, taking over the site of another parking lot. Architects...

That's the "stone dust" jogging trail; the blueprints have a separate 12' asphalt path that's going to go in on the dirt road next to the rails. See the MaineDOT scope of work here: https://www.maine.gov/dot/sites/maine.gov.dot/files/dot-project-documents/nc018469.00.pdf OUTLINE OF WORK: The...

Found the zoning text amendment application on the City Council's agenda from last week's meeting. Site is the west side of the block between Hinckley/Ocean/Thomas. Looks like the zoning got approved but it'll still need a site plan and traffic movement permit through the planning board...

With Trump's Medicaid cuts already taking effect and the Republican Party's imminent demolition of the Affordable Care Act insurance system, US healthcare is in for a rough ride, financially, over the next couple of years. We're already seeing hospitals close down major units, or shut down...

I've tried to talk up this idea as well – besides resolving the issue with the PTC location, a new rail corridor along the Turnpike could also allow for significantly faster Amtrak service by bypassing all of the slow at-grade street crossings between Congress and Morrill's Corner. If it were...