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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Back on the PB schedule for July 7 with a workshop on Buildings Y and YB, directly across from the apartment / parking garage combo they already submitted. I would anticipate packet materials going up next Thursday....

26-000529 – Site Plan – Rock Row and Quarry Drive – Dirigo Center Developers, LLC: The applicant is
proposing the development of Buildings Y and YB in the Rock Row South Campus. Building Y is to be two-
story with ground level retail and loft space above. Building YB is proposed as mixed use, ground level
retail and 12 condominium units. Tax Map: 042B Lot: 14J Zone: Contract Zone 12 – Rock Row Contract
Zone Use: Mixed, Retail
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The workshop for Buildings Y and YB is indeed slated for this upcoming week. The only documents posted so far are the application and site plan, with no elevations or renderings....

This is to the immediate west (more or less) of the hotel, and south of and across the street from the residential / garage block.

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Some screenshots (literally taken with my camera off the TV screen) from the Planning Board meeting for Y and YB. The condos are going to be 3BR, 2.5 Bath, each with a two car garage. The area between the buildings is intended to be like a woonerf, and that's where the garage will open to. The front doors of the condos will open to a trail and the brook area, and they're planning for that larger retail space on the east side to be a restaurant.
For the other building, they do have a prospective tenant for that large retail space, and they specifically requested the loading dock.

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MarkHB said:
Some screenshots (literally taken with my camera off the TV screen) from the Planning Board meeting for Y and YB. The condos are going to be 3BR, 2.5 Bath, each with a two car garage. The area between the buildings is intended to be like a woonerf, and that's where the garage will open to. The front doors of the condos will open to a trail and the brook area, and they're planning for that larger retail space on the east side to be a restaurant.
For the other building, they do have a prospective tenant for that large retail space, and they specifically requested the loading dock.

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Pretty cool look and materials.....but this seems like really low density for a development like this.
 
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