465 Congress Street | Portland

[mainejeff]

Dang that's a lot of scaffolding!

 

[Portlander]

Better than a lot of telephone wires!

 

[TC_zoid]

Can they please power wash off the salt stains on the bricks of Monument Square? Do they not see that? Are they that thick?

 

[Portlander]

Monument Square (1975) needs to be totally rebuilt and I have been complaining to the powers to be at City Hall for years with no luck. Loose bricks everywhere and the granite sections are all torn up and public works continues to fill in the gaps with asphalt which is becoming a safety issue. This is the centerpiece of downtown and the city continues to allow it to deteriorate!

 

[Corey]

465 Congress Street | Fidelity Trust Building Renovations by Corey Templeton, on Flickr

 

[TC_zoid]

This conversion to a hotel with the basement bank vault speakeasy will become soooooo dope. And how I wish for the public market to revert back to its original interior design and use. The Maine Public idea for office space here (next month) is a gross underutilization of this building's architectural dynamic. Imagine an atrium connecting to the hotel remodel along with an easier walk through to Monument Square. The public market used to have an incredible vaulted beam ceiling and stupendous granite faced fire place (without office cubicles). I believe that was the semi-mandated purpose for it from the benefactor before she died (Elizabeth B. Noyce), to be a public market. So then, park in the big garage, walk through the skybridge to the market, walk through the daylight feeling atrium, then the restored hotel, then the door/s out to Monument Square (with its fix, per Portlander). Now that would be truly integrated and wondrous urban architecture. I feel like the city buffoons usually win though. Why is that?

 

[PWMFlyer]

I loved the PPM. It was a project before its time. With her bank (Maine Bank & Trust), The market was supposed to break that I don't cross congress street line to go towards the homeless shelter. The new civic center (10,000) seats were proposed to go on the other side of the garage, but after outcry from social services and the city council, that project died. There was a plan to build a building where the drive thru was to connect the Fidelity building, and the market. See prior postings..

 

[Portlander]

 

[TC_zoid]

Thank you Lord for Jim Brady and Redfern.

 

[Corey]

465 Congress Street Refurbishment Monument Square by Corey Templeton, on Flickr

 

[Portlander]

 

[Portlander]

 

[Portlander]