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Some photos of the nearly-complete Cross Street Condos building in this week's Press Herald real estate section. Looks like a second elevator core is under construction next door in the second photo:

PSA, if there's a user whose posts are consistently bizarre and uninformative, I highly recommend using the "Ignore" option, and you'll never have to read them again. Find it by mousing over their user name next to one of their rants:

I biked out there this afternoon to visit REI – the whole place was very busy at 2:30 pm on a weekday. I have to say that in spite of the fact that it's absurdly impractical to get there without taking a car, the Rock Row site itself is unusually well designed for bike and pedestrian access...

Both cores look like they're topped out now...

My counterpoint would be that Portland's economy didn't suffer in 2006 when the Council enacted a short moratorium on franchise restaurants – in fact, the city entered a renaissance period for food and dining and attracted a surge in business and real estate investment (and Hooters, which...

There's an active building permit out right now for 110 Thames (the Sun Life building) for "Demolition and Reconstruction of existing TPO roofing system." Looks expensive! The Google Maps imagery (from 2024 or 2023?) definitely shows some issues with the old roof...

Lots of cities have tried arresting homeless people, over and over and over again. It doesn't work, and in fact, there's clear evidence that it makes it harder for homeless people to find housing, jobs, or manage addiction problems (obviously). Portland tried a "surge" of policing in Bayside...

Surprise! The Kaplan Thompson project you posted above is literally affordable socialist housing being built by the Lewiston Housing Authority (and for that matter, if you're a homeowner with a 30-year mortgage, you're also the beneficiary of a socialized system of federally subsidized housing...

Nice find! I was curious to note that the settlement didn't include Lot 6 – the one at the NE corner of Lancaster and Chestnut – but according to the city's tax assessor's map, that's already under City of Portland ownership. So it looks like the city's eminent domain proceedings for that lot...

The rendering makes the garage look closer than it will be IRL; the site plans on the planning board's website show a ~15 foot alley between this building and the garage, with some landscaping: The planning board unanimously approved the site plan for this project. The applicants also shared...

Proposed new 10-story residential building with 217 residential units and ground-level retail between the Public Market parking garage, Preble St., Oxford St., and Elm St. in Bayside. This project is getting its public hearing for planning board approval tonight...

Construction is underway on the Dewitt, a two-building project delivering 104 new mixed-income apartments next to Kennedy Park. This site had been a surface parking lot for decades. https://www.mainebiz.biz/article/two-new-apartment-buildings-are-underway-next-to-lewistons-kennedy-park...

Please take this in the spirit of some good-natured ribbing, but it seems to me that someone is just making up numbers based on some knee-jerk feelings? Google "portland public schools language demographics", ignore the AI slop at the top of the results, and you'll find this in about 5 seconds...

IDK, under the new zoning, I don't think there's much the city could do to block it - it's pretty much legal as of right. I think the bigger barrier to the project is financing – who's going to pay for it? And I'm not sure that a shorter building with less leasable space would pencil out for them.

I don't really think that height is the problem here. Remember that Redfern's project on Federal Street sailed through its planning approvals with virtually no opposition. This project is taller, sure, but it's also clearly being marketed to much wealthier homebuyers and tourists. Remember...

Looks like they got every shade of beige for the siding. Is it clad in naugahyde?

The city's CSS file for this project has been updated with some additional material (a cover letter, basic building elevation, and a site plan): https://selfservice.portlandmaine.gov/EnerGov_Prod/selfservice#/plan/4720ba27-6754-49a3-85ee-4e2ca35fea23?tab=attachments 26 1-bed plus 26 2-bedroom...

I've gotta work today but looking forward to learning about the plans. Re: the hotel moratorium, I'm pretty sure they filed a site plan application back in November (along with a bunch of other developers) in order to get in before the moratorium officially took effect.

If you've never seen it before, the Census Bureau's On The Map site has great data on commuting patterns. I understand it's based on IRS W-9 data, which records where people live and where they work: https://onthemap.ces.census.gov/ According to this, there are about 40,000 "primary" jobs on...

I generally agree and expect that *most* of the office space here will remain. But I still think that the site needs a lot more active non-office uses - especially given how much the current office uses rely on unproductive parking lots in the middle of the Old Port, and how dead this site...