Rock Row (née The Ridge, née Dirigo Plaza) | Westbrook, ME

Planning Board update: due to the length of the agenda at last night's meeting, Rock Row got bumped to an upcoming session (either May 19 or the first June meeting depending on theirs and the Board's availability).
 
May 19th the city council is supposed to discuss the 25% inclusionary rule for mandating affordable units in housing, to roll it back to pre-Covid levels of 10%. Redfern is waiting for and anticipates it will change, and if so, it's full steam ahead with their projects and whatever this silly Rock Row developer can put together.
 
Rock Row's current plan doesn't call for housing in the one lot they have in Portland, so that wouldn't matter anyway.
 
Update: the Westbrook Planning Board has scheduled a meeting for May 19th (their "if needed" second meeting slot in the month) with the Rock Row item from last week plus a presentation by the city planners on the agenda.
 
If anyone is interested, the video from the recent Rock Row workshop (focused on the garage / residential block) is here. They're first up on the agenda so no need to skip through.

One thing they mentioned is that the vertical lines in the gray sections of the facade are a callout to the quarry heritage of Rock Row; they're meant to invoke the vertical seams seen in excavated rock .
 
MarkHB said:
If anyone is interested, the video from the recent Rock Row workshop (focused on the garage / residential block) is here. They're first up on the agenda so no need to skip through.

One thing they mentioned is that the vertical lines in the gray sections of the facade are a callout to the quarry heritage of Rock Row; they're meant to invoke the vertical seams seen in excavated rock .
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Hearing them talk about why they made certain design and color decision made me appreciate this a little more. That said, they still need to do more to dress up the upper floors of the garage.
 
Dr. StrangeHat said:
Hearing them talk about why they made certain design and color decision made me appreciate this a little more. That said, they still need to do more to dress up the upper floors of the garage.
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I was thinking about the louvers on the Seaport Garage in Boston, but I didn't embarrass myself by calling in this time.
 
Full Planning Board agenda last night, including a Workshop presentation of the proposed hotel (Element by Marriott).

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Yellow areas below are retail tenant spaces on the first floor:

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