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What? We have a corner store (with a parking lot) a laundromat (with a parking lot) a bakery (with a parking lot) a hardware store (with a parking lot) and a pharmacy (with a huge parking lot). And what's the first thing brought up in response to any proposed downtown development? Where's...

The project went to the planning board in February - http://www.portlandmaine.gov/planning/pbpackets/wdppbreportwithattachments.pdf It was approved, and per this article at the time, slated to start construction in July...

That is very welcome news - they had spoken about gifting the city Saccarappa Island at one point, I'm curious if that is still under consideration as some of the "donation of land along the Presumpscot River to the City of Westbrook" the release speaks of. And yes, I was way off with the...

Westbrook is coming up - it's excruciatingly slow, but it is happening. It's happening even though pretty much every one of gritty's points is grounded and justifiable. That makes it a Sisyphean battle, but I've lived in Westbrook for 6 or 7 years now, and I have seen a lot of positive changes...

I've never been to a planning board meeting myself, but I might have to make this my first. Further attempts to sub-urbanize a downtown gutted by the last attempts to do so gets my NIMBY hackles up. The city has already bent over backwards for the owners in an effort to get rid of the eyesore...

I really hope the city council sticks to its guns too. The entire point of the contract zone was to hold the snake-oil salesman to some of his lofty claims. It was done specifically to prevent the area from becoming a series of strip malls. For him to now cry "anti-business" and try to wriggle...

The land behind the stockhouse is for sale - would be before the branches that used to lead to Gorham and Portland via Forest (Downeaster Brunswick line), right about across the tracks from where the old station used to be. The line to Portland/ Forest ave. is unlikely as it would likely require...

Back in the mid 2000s there was some interesting research going on with dual-mode vehicles - passenger transit that operated both as a bus and a rail vehicle - the japanese version and the brit version The Japanese and the British, however, have a decent rail system - these would only be used...

While I was firmly in support of this idea - and still feel it to be an ideal development location - there is a major water main that bisects this site - that is what derailed it the first time. The main could be moved, but the expense is prohibitive for the foreseeable future. Current planning...

So chapter the first of "Defense of Westbrook". While we all realize the disadvantages of Westbrook's downtown having been raped by urban renewal, what I find to be positive about the current situation is that the city does too -(big ole pdf - careful on those data plans) You cannot read an...

First post - been a lurker since before the recession - signed up to write a rather long winded defense of Westbrook, then thought better of it as a first post (I will get to it at some point, in installments, though). The lack of a connection between commercial St and rail has been one of my...