Largest development project Portland has seen in decades underway in the OId Port

[@MrDroenix]

I think it's a good thing for Portland. Portland is transforming into a modern city with tech companies looking to bring innovation to the state.

[@TheAtemiles]

I grew up in Portland live in dc. Actually thought of doing something like this but never pulled the trigger. Might but some land....

[@notmyname9625]

You should

[@notmyname9625]

Who panics when someone throws confetti? In all seriousness tho this will be good for the city the benefit to the city as a whole will far outweigh the detriment to any neighbors.

[@Cartbs229]

Lot of NIMBYS in the comments

[@sebastiansebastian7377]

Facts

[@bluesky4385]

I just hope Portland, Maine doesn't end up with the problems of Portland, Oregon.

[@earthmother7852]

That’s terrible! The view disappears for 10’s of thousands 😭

[@mrwonderful2142]

It disappears for the welfare housing next door 😂 They are destroying the working waterfront and making traffic substantially worse

[@sebastiansebastian7377]

@@mrwonderful2142 when neighborhoods are actually walkable it actually improves traffic as less people get in their cars for the smaller tasks, like daily commutes to work or grocery shopping. This is good for Portland ME

[@notmyname9625]

Homeowners tunes will change when they see how much their home values skyrocket as development continues. People from southern new england/ new york are moving to both nh and maine in droves. The growth is gonna happen either way you might as well try to build in a way that not only attracts people to your city for the right reasons but also in a way that can sustain it without completely altering the city. A waterfront view being interrupted sucks but nowhere near as much as entire historic neighborhoods being bulldozed to make way for this new housing that is gonna inevitably have to be built somewhere anyway. Prolonging the inevitable rarely ever helps a situation.

[@C1K450]

@@sebastiansebastian7377Portland is still small as a city, smaller as a state. I don’t think your funding is ready for a metro rail, roads look narrow too in the city center of Portland. I would’ve suggested an old school style trolley system around the downtown area to match the cities charm. Maybe they need more walking paths and bike lanes.

[@Jacob-tp3yl]

To quote a great song: Howdy High-rise Guess I’ll be going I doubt you’ll notice or even care Whatever drew you to our small city It’s probably no longer here

[@markmorris3579]

There goes the neighborhood! How long will it take to force out the local fisherman and the working class families to make room for the upper class?

[@notmyname9625]

If you dont build new housing it will happen even faster. The people moving here on average have more money then the locals. In most cases we’re not gonna out bid them on the homes that already exist here so if we want to retain our affordable housing we need to build new housing for these people otherwise they’ll just buy up all the old housing and yuppify it just like the generations before them did to the states they came from. Just look at massachusetts they used to have tons of affordable towns and cities now no where is affordable and its because they didnt keep up with building housing out of a fear of urbanization which only resulted in more sprawl pushing people all the way up to cities like portland.

[@Zordy21]

Since when was there affordable housing in the old port?? It’s fancy hotels, expensive apartments and boujee restaurants already it’s literally just new buildings of the same thing. Anything to be upset

[@thefirstdumbldore8265]

Awful!

[@kennybeck5684]

Tomorrow's ghetto today.

[@mrwonderful2142]

Munjoy South across the street is already a welfare Ghetto 😂