The Portland Planning Board unanimously approves the project’s master plan, but neighborhood residents have questions about the details and urged the developers to establish some sort of neighborhood advisory panel.
Bayside
The Wrap: Portland native, entrepreneur to open Gorham wine bar
Austin Street Brewery has opened a new location at 115 Fox St., and Maine Beer Co. plans to open an expanded tasting room on March 9.
Second art center will add to vibrancy of East Bayside, where ‘the energy is great’
The owners of Greenhut Galleries and Angela Adams hope to draw in the foot traffic created by the neighborhood’s breweries and coffee roasters.
Stalemate stalls Midtown project while Portland’s interest payments stack up
The city and the developer of the $85 million project planned in Bayside accuse each other of holding up progress.
Maine Voices: Portland council’s process for deciding shelter sites remains problematic
Determining the size and number of locations should be the task of a partnership between city officials and the people of Portland.
Portland man mining climate change for laughs – and action
Eco-cleaner and aspiring comic Jason Wentworth was living a so-called sustainable life – until he realized he wasn’t.
Maine Voices: Affordable housing saves lives and saves the community money
We need resources for housing, health care and treatment for mental health and substance use disorder.
Preble Street’s plan to scale back hours at day shelter in Bayside worries its users and its neighbors
Facing rising costs and less public funding, the agency makes a decision that could exacerbate the needs of the homeless and undermine efforts to reduce disorderly behavior in the area.
Portland teen pleads not guilty to murder charge in Bayside shooting
Tyrese Collins, 19, says little else during a court hearing in the slaying of Jack Wilson, 45, during an argument on a street corner in June.
Portland’s Bayside neighborhood feeling effects of police crackdown
But as unruly behavior declines, some fear the homeless are being unfairly targeted.