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Some nice new mixed-use infill (retail with 18 apartments above) located on Auburn's Main Street, next to the Androscoggin River: ` The project just had a groundbreaking ceremony: https://wgme.com/newsletter-daily/groundbreaking-ceremony-held-for-new-multi-use-building-in-auburn-maine-main-street

Some nice drone shots of the Wedgewood public housing construction progress from the Sun Journal:

It is a landbanked rail ROW, but won't likely ever be converted back to railroad use. The new interstate Tukey's Br. obliterated the Union Branch connection across Back Cove to East Deering, so it would require building a new RR alignment around the sewage treatment plant and a new bridge across...

Apologies if this has been discussed before, but as the T rolls out more truly physically-separated dedicated busways, like Columbus Ave., alongside the new frequent-service routes, I struggle to understand why the SL4/5 line on Washington St. and the SL1 through the airport deserve the same...

C. Michael Lewis did a lot of fanciful drawings like this one – I think it would be a stretch to call it a real proposal, more like wishful thinking. Looks like the date next to his signature (in the median of Marginal Way) was 2000, which would put it in the same era as the "New Vision For...

This was a good read about why it's so hard to redevelop these kinds of single-story, single-tenant retail buildings... https://ggwash.org/view/93853/whats-the-deal-with-single-tenant-retail-buildings

@portlandneedsnewarena , where's this from?

Like I said, figure out how to raise $30 or $40 million and you could make it happen! I find it noteworthy that Costco isn't offering to pay for it – kind of seems like it might not be worth the money. The prices at Costco might be cheap, but they're not nearly cheap enough to justify wasting...

Ha ha, not unless you wanna raise your gas taxes by a few million dollars! Westbrook ended up spending a whopping $2.6 million to widen about 400' feet of Clarke Drive last year (see page 52 of this document). At that rate, a mile-long road widening would cost Scarborough about 1/4th of its...

New design has been posted: https://selfservice.portlandmaine.gov/EnerGov_Prod/selfservice#/plan/64358869-3dca-4858-ba6f-fae620ec74d3?tab=attachments

I note that the architects for this one are Lever – the same Oregon firm that's working on Redfern's Washington Ave. project IIRC. Wonder if they're opening up a local office...

This kind of cognitive bias ("everybody that I know has a car") is a great example of how car-dependent communities get forced on us. In fact, the Census Bureau counts over 40,000 car-free households in Maine, the vast majority of whom do not live in Portland (but would probably love to live...

There have been some interesting, albeit quiet, conversations at MaineDOT recently about removing I-295 from the Interstate system and making it a slower, cheaper-to-maintain surface street, kind of like Memorial Drive in Cambridge. Right now, most of I-295's infrastructure is nearing the end...

I don't think anyone's posted this here, but the city planning office has produced this very interesting dashboard of housing production data: https://www.portlandmaine.gov/1462/Housing-Dashboard Some things to note: The 2020 "green new deal" ordinance did not, as some predicted, put an end...

Here you go: Source: https://archboston.com/community/threads/portland-me-new-construction-continued.944/page-117#post-197099

Elkus was the design architect and SMRT was the AOR, meaning they did the more detailed construction drawings and was the local liaison for permitting work...

Holst does great work! I'm excited to see them work on what's going to be a very prominent building at the entrance to Washington Ave.

This was kind of cool to see: a couple days ago, the "Mount Joy Orchard" instagram page posted a hair-on-fire NIMBY screed against this project because it would "threaten the health of Mount Joy Community Orchard" and alleged that "such a tall building in such close proximity would cast the...

The parking lots on the north side of Thompsons Point Road are actually owned by MaineDOT, and they occupy the land that the highway engineers took in the 1970s for a failed freeway spur that would have gone through the Fore River Marshes to Westbrook: That freeway got axed when Clean Water...

I agree it's slowly recovering compared to 2 years ago, but even a 15-20% rate of remote work - which is likely to be permanent at this point - represents a major shift in how much office space people need. Portland's Class A inventory is about 2 million square feet of office space; 15 percent...