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Possible but very, very expensive. You'd need a site that can pull Kendall Square rents to justify it: https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/01/29/eversource-kendall-square-electrical-subsation-bxp-climate

Since we have two weeks to speculate, here are some observations: The whole Canal Plaza parcel is literally right next to Exchange Street and the middle of the Old Port on Exchange and Fore, but it certainly doesn't feel that way – it's cut off from all the foot traffic by a huge parking garage...

4 acres is the size of East Brown Cow's properties around Canal Plaza: 175K square feet = 4 acres

Yeah, I'm sorry, I should have started a new thread for this. The renderings I shared in post #43 are for a new project at 61 Preble Street. It's under the same Port Properties framework plan for Bayside, and they're calling it "Phase 1B". The location that @nomc highlighted in the map in post...

A few materials have been posted to the CSS site – Elm Street (east) elevation, looking west along Oxford towards Deering Oaks: Oxford Street elevation: Site plan:

Also amusing is that a huge part of this VHB study was a "zoning analysis," but they apparently didn't consider Recode until the last minute, and then they had to add an appendix at the end that basically says that all the zoning discussion in the main report is out of date. By the way, their...

Worth noting that this study was (mis)managed by vhb, the same firm that's flubbing the multi-billion dollar Allston Multimodal Project in Boston: https://mass.streetsblog.org/2025/02/03/designers-tempers-fray-as-major-issues-remain-unresolved-for-allston-i-90-project I don't understand why...

Here's a site overview map from https://www.thedowns.com/work. It's dated from April 2024 and is slightly different from what's being proposed now, but the Market Basket building is shown on here, below/left of the buildings labelled "49" and "50". One thing to keep in mind is that the...

On the one hand, yes, it's a strip mall with a 5-story apartment building on one side. Hopefully the rents will be more affordable to compensate all those residents whose units are going to look out on a scorched field of asphalt with carbon monoxide and ozone and black soot wafting through...

It's also more housing than the Boston planning agency approved last month: https://www.bostonplans.org/news-calendar/news-updates/2025/01/the-planning-department-advances-new-affordable-ho/the-planning-department-advances-new-affordable-ho

Remember that this is school vacation week – peak of the peak demand for flights to Orlando.

Nice find! Although the project info describes this is "Phase 1B", not "Phase 2." https://selfservice.portlandmaine.gov/EnerGov_Prod/SelfService#/plan/dd07bbf0-d2af-485c-ba12-098118658eae?tab=moreinfo The architects are listed as Market Square Architects of Portsmouth. Under the "More Info"...

That's what Redfern's website says:

First planning board workshop is this week: https://portlandme.portal.civicclerk.com/event/7564/files/agenda/15686 Plans show some cool details, including a huge bike room with storage for 134 bikes next to the park, only 11 off-street parking spots, and two interior courtyards.

I can't believe nobody's posted this classic video yet...

If you search the CSS site on the parcel ID (018 A003001) you can find an excavation permit application, submitted around Thanksgiving: https://selfservice.portlandmaine.gov/EnerGov_Prod/SelfService#/permit/800a97cc-9fa0-4451-a318-c9cb7b5cc6ae Description: "Earth retention for proposed...

This week's planning board agenda includes the planning department's year in review: https://portlandme.portal.civicclerk.com/event/7563/files/report/3788 24 major site plans approved in 2024; 393 new housing units, 268 of which (68%) have affordability restrictions $1.2 million in...

Here's one of the first big off-peninsula housing proposals since ReCode passed: plans have been posted on the CSS site for "Deering Village" at 410 Auburn Street, between Auburn and Washington Avenue, about 1 mile north of the Northgate Plaza shopping center. 110 new homes in 11 buildings on...

IIRC there are separate permits for earthwork/foundation vs. vertical construction, and some projects begin foundation work before the other building permit is in hand. But the fact that they've broken ground makes it very likely they've gotten their construction financing in hand for the whole...

I don't know, I bet a lot of people in the West End would prefer not to live next to a 2-acre field of asphalt that's a magnet for traffic and toxic exhaust fumes. MMC identified the parking lot as a "long-term redevelopment" in their 2017 Institutional Development Plan with the city: "While no...