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Here you go: Source: https://archboston.com/community/threads/portland-me-new-construction-continued.944/page-117#post-197099

Elkus was the design architect and SMRT was the AOR, meaning they did the more detailed construction drawings and was the local liaison for permitting work...

Holst does great work! I'm excited to see them work on what's going to be a very prominent building at the entrance to Washington Ave.

This was kind of cool to see: a couple days ago, the "Mount Joy Orchard" instagram page posted a hair-on-fire NIMBY screed against this project because it would "threaten the health of Mount Joy Community Orchard" and alleged that "such a tall building in such close proximity would cast the...

The parking lots on the north side of Thompsons Point Road are actually owned by MaineDOT, and they occupy the land that the highway engineers took in the 1970s for a failed freeway spur that would have gone through the Fore River Marshes to Westbrook: That freeway got axed when Clean Water...

I agree it's slowly recovering compared to 2 years ago, but even a 15-20% rate of remote work - which is likely to be permanent at this point - represents a major shift in how much office space people need. Portland's Class A inventory is about 2 million square feet of office space; 15 percent...

I'm pretty surprised they're trying to sell offices surrounded by a dead zone of parking lots, instead of trying to start with housing - which there's actually demand for - and making an attempt to turn it into a neighborhood where people might actually want to work. There's very weak demand...

Portland Housing Authority has published a project website for its COMB Block project, which would be a multi-phase, multi-building redevelopment of the land it owns between Cumberland, Oxford, Mayo, and Boyd (COMB for short). The first building is going for planning approval this spring; it...

Franklin Towers doesn't have a bunch of fake-Greek crap plastered over its facade like those other buildings, but it does have strong claims to being historic – and it's frankly more unique than a lot of old houses with Greater Portland Landmarks plaques in the West End. It's a great example of...

Are you insinuating that "historic preservation" is less concerned about history than it is about enforcing the aesthetic preferences of wealthy, elitist snobs? What in the world gave you that idea? /sarcasm

As far as I know, they still control the big former Mercy Hospital parking lot on the other side of Spring Street, which is over 1/2 an acre with an 85' height limit...

I wonder what's going to become of the old Norway Savings drive-thru when it's no longer needed for construction staging. It's an absurdly dumb use of Old Port real estate – if I were running Norway Savings Bank, I wouldn't want such a visible billboard in the middle of downtown Portland...

OK I haven't found renderings but I did find this historic photo of what the existing building used to look like, when it was a car barn for the Portland & Yarmouth Electric Railway (the left bay appears to have been demolished but I wonder if the sign on the pediment is still there under the...

This sounds like a challenge – 1,000,000 ArchBoston Bucks* to the first person who can find them on the internet *ArchBoston Bucks are not a real thing

If you look at Portland's FEMA flood maps, the eastern prom trail along the eastern waterfront is generally 12-13 feet in elevation, which is better off than the old B&M building, whose south end is at about 10' elevation and has been getting pretty wet this winter...