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Portland Housing Authority has published a project website for its COMB Block project, which would be a multi-phase, multi-building redevelopment of the land it owns between Cumberland, Oxford, Mayo, and Boyd (COMB for short). The first building is going for planning approval this spring; it...

Found a massing diagram for a proposed apartment/condo building at 45 Brown Street (current site of the "Village Green" parking garage, one of Portland's oldest and rustiest parking structures): This 25-foot tall, 300 unit concept is probably not going to be built: the brochure it's from is...

Proposed office/restaurant mixed-use building on Route 1 in Falmouth. This is the first proposal for the area since the owners pulled their much larger "town center" master plan a little over a year ago...

Good story in today's Press Herald with new renderings of two small 6-unit projects in the pipeline: http://www.pressherald.com/news/Munjoy_Hill_building_boom_gets_louder.html

Next Monday's City Council meeting - at 7 pm on the 21st, in the Council chambers on the 2nd floor of City Hall - will decide the outcome of the Peninsula Transit Study's proposed "Fee In Lieu of Parking" concept. Generally speaking, this ordinance would give developers of new buildings on the...

Franklin Arterial is a failed urban-renewal project from the late 1960s/early 1970s that demolished acres of historic neighborhoods in the center city and replaced them with a wide, 1/2 mile expressway across the peninsula. Here's a before-and-after aerial photo (courtesy of the Portland Press...

Local developer Peter Bass expects to break ground on this 26 unit condo building this spring. With smaller unit sizes and reduced parking, the prices should be affordable to first-time homebuyers. Unfortunately, these innovative features required a long detour through the city's planning...

I took a bike ride this weekend through Knightville, the neighborhood at the other end of the Casco Bay Bridge, and there's a surprising amount of development going on over there. The city is rebuilding Waterman Drive to become more pedestrian-friendly and neighborhoody (it had been the approach...

The owners of Thompson's Point (behind the train and bus station in Libbytown) are looking for a developer to turn the site into a mixed-use, transit-oriented development: http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=116953&ac=PHbiz

Here's a rendering for the proposed building on Danforth and High Streets: From Peter Bass's development company. The proposal includes two shared cars to minimize parking requirements and maximize affordability.

A 21 unit housing proposal for Sheridan Street just got conditional Planning Board approval:

Downtown Portland's parking lots (solid red) and parking structures (shaded): Some facts about Portland's subsidies for free parking on my blog: http://vigorousnorth.blogspot.com

Brunswick has commissioned a master plan for the area around its planned train station: www.taintorassociates.com/documents/Brunswick/FinalPlanonly.pdf Also, I've moved back to Portland and started an economic-development web log. It's located at http://vigorousnorth.blogspot.com/ I don't...

More opportunities for tourists' wallets to hemorrhage in Freeport are on the way. This plan comes complete with plenty of "free" parking (Freeport taxpayers will actually pay the bill), which ought to do wonders for the June-through-January traffic jam on Main Street. Courtesy the "on the...