Time & Temp Building / Brown St. Parking Garage Redevelopment | Portland

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Stumbled upon a potential suspect's car today that may be responsible for defacing downtown buildings and also had an expired meter! Or maybe who ever painted this vehicle for the owner is the culprit? Police take notice! 😄
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Reddit had a clip from some publication interviewing the bee guy. It turns out he's from Massachusetts. Cool factor destroyed.
 
My apology, it was meant as humor and I made sure the photo did not show the license plate. The post has been deleted out of respect for you and the vehicle owner. Categorizing the Portland Police Department as violent is unnecessary on your end even if you are not joking. I agree with your comment on the difference between Bee's artistic talent and the goofy doodles the have been popping up in the downtown area. (y)
 
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Portlander said:
My apology, it was meant as humor and I made sure the photo did not show the license plate. The post has been deleted out of respect for you and the vehicle owner. Categorizing the Portland Police Department as violent is unnecessary on your end even if you are not joking. I agree with your comment on the difference between Bee's artistic talent and the goofy doodles the have been popping up in the downtown area. (y)
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Thank you. The PPD's violent constitutional violations are extremely well-documented – try googling "Nicholas Goodman wrongful death" – but we don't need to stray off topic here.

I'll delete my previous post as well.
 
MSPD created for 181 room hotel. Maybe this is the time?
 
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nomc said:
MSPD created for 181 room hotel. Maybe this is the time?
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I'm skeptical. I assume this is just developers rushing to get hotel applications in before the moratorium kicks in next week as a way to "keep their options open" because any hotel application submitted before 12/4 is "grandfathered in" and won't be subject to the moratorium or any changes to hotel policy that results from it.

I think behind closed doors the city is strongly pushing residential or at least a hotel / residential mix for the Time & Temp building.
 
A blip in this morning's PPH article on the 142 Free St. Museum dispute mentions that Chris Rhoades, current owner of the T&T building, is working with a potential buyer for the place but didn't have more to say about it.
 
I believe that Jim Brady has started demo work on the Fidelty building hotel project next door. I don't see Time & Temp as a hotel because next door Brady will render his into the best hotel in Portland. On the first floor there is a massive sized vault of which he's making into a bar. We don't see that every day, though for re-purposed bank vaults the one in Urban Outfitters will be hard to beat. But that's just got clothing racks in it. Drinking and getting drunk on cocktails in a bank vault is a whole different and better experience, I'm assuming.
 
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Nothing new, just a current photo of two of my favorite buildings.
 
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Looking at the sketch plans for the backside facing Back Cove, the exterior fire escape will be eliminated, a new elevator will be constructed, no rooftop bar. Parking will be provided in the old Public Market Garage. Is the plan still to develop the old garage attached to 477? It will be nice to see life in the annex for apartments, the main building/TD Bank attached building, 465 Congress, as well as apartments down the street off Elm.
 

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My recollection from the last proposal (different developer) was that the city was very opposed to having any valet operations on Congress Street. The concern was that inevitably there will be congestion, double-parking, etc., and at such a narrow point on Congress you could have emergency vehicles trying to get through in these types of situations. It sounds like they are proposing to do some valet on Congress, so I wonder if they've run it by city staff already and worked out some kind of arrangement.
 
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My recollection from the last proposal (different developer) was that the city was very opposed to having any valet operations on Congress Street. The concern was that inevitably there will be congestion, double-parking, etc., and at such a narrow point on Congress you could have emergency vehicles trying to get through in these types of situations. It sounds like they are proposing to do some valet on Congress, so I wonder if they've run it by city staff already and worked out some kind of arrangement.
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Valet with pleasant young valet personnel in black silk vests and bow ties and customers in nice cars dressed up for a stay or dinner will be a nuisance? You mean the current miscreants and drug addicts shooting up out front with opioids and flakka or meth is a more desirable setting for citizens in this area?
 
PWMFlyer, could you pease post the sketch plans for us? I can't find them.
 
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Their ownership and management portfolio includes 30 new and renovated properties throughout the United States and they appear to specialize in bringing historic landmarks similar to the Time & Temperature Building back to life. Hope it works out and will be interested to hear TC's opinion of HRI Hospitality's venture into Portland?
 
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The first thing that comes to mind is that this company creates (or can) competent and/though elegantly generic hotels. I've stayed at so many nice hotels across the country in the last two decades and the best ones are usually boutique, so without a corporate feel. Jim Brady's new hotel endeavor next door will--I'm assuming--not be corporate in feel. All that you need to do is look at what he did with the Press Hotel 👏 The Canopy gets good marks too. The best or most exciting-in-feel hotel I've ever stayed at? The Statler in Dallas or maybe The Four Seasons in New Orleans. For me, checking in to a hotel on a Friday late afternoon better produce a lobby with a bar for a heart pumping feel during happy hour for social interactions, not drinking, per se. When Brady's version is done and the Old Port Square one too, wow. It should become three truly stunning places to stay in optimum locations (including the Press) 👏 👏 👏 P.S., The Lincoln Hotel in Biddeford surprises--wow. Growing up in Saco we always used to bemoan going into that city. Not now.
 
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