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Oops, you're right! I just double-checked the city's parcels map – Jackrabbit only owns the VA/Chase Leavitt/SMRT warehouse, while Cohen owns the WEX site to the south and the Hamilton Marine warehouse at 100 Fore to the north.
Interestingly, the city still owns a narrow strip of land between the two warehouses, an old railroad ROW. Hopefully they can use that to encourage a land swap between the two private owners and extend Mountfort St to the waterfront as planned. |
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Groundbreaking is set to begin today on one of the parcels the City recently sold to various developers in Bayside:
http://www.mainebiz.biz/article/2018...180619970/1092 |
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#624 |
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Well, hopefully the lawsuit being settled frees the land up to be sold and developed by someone else. I'm tired of waiting for Federated to do something. I can't blame them for everything the city and Keep Portland Livable put them through (and the potential losses they've incurred because of it), but it's time to move on and find someone willing and able to develop the property.
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If anyone was still holding out a sliver of hope that Midtown will ever be built, I found out from a friend in city government that Federated no longer exists as a company, the land is now owned by a shell company. Final nail in the coffin for the project.
The city is trying to get the land back |
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I wouldn't be surprised if this whole fiasco up-ended Federated as a company. You can't pour millions of dollars into planning something on this scale and get nothing out of it. Banks and financiers do not like a negative return on their investment.
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https://www.centralmaine.com/2019/01...ents-stack-up/
The Federated / Midtown saga is still dragging on. Looks like Peter Monro is back in the picture as well Quote:
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The underlying reason the NIMBY group does not want Midtown is one of racism. They fear the project will bring in more "people of color," and that that will result in more crime, poverty, etc. Talk to the few blacks in Portland (not Africans, but those that were born in the U.S.), and they will be honest with you. "black girl in maine" has a FB page in which you can scroll through her thread. She's open about it, and her identity is too. You are only not racist if you treat everyone the same. That includes not "parading around" a few select peoples, so that you can "feel good about yourself."
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Yes, it was, or still is. But with 800 new rental units, the rental market pricing will go down, making it more affordable. They do not want a large congregation of "economically challenged" groups (many poor families "of color" have multiple wage earners). Instead, they claim it will change the character of the city, this horrible large architecture. Except that, they have said virtually nothing about the massive new office building construction in the East End. Talk about changing the character of a neighborhood. I like it, the money that's coming in, but they do look like something more in line with what you would see in an office park out by the Maine Mall. Portland is the only congested city (in the peninsula part) in the world that builds long, low-rise buildings during a market upswing.
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