Hot off the presses -- $100MM New WESTIN Hotel planned for Portland Maine
Apr 7, 2005, 5:32 pm
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Hot off the presses -- $100MM New WESTIN Hotel planned for Portland Maine
Read all about it -- here: http://business.mainetoday.com/newsd....html?id=1672#
Essentially, plans were announced today for the model that we're seeing a lot of very quickly these days with *wood --- that being half condos half lodging under various *wood banners, in this case, Westin.
Hotel is proposed to be about a block from the waterfront and would be mere steps from the new International Cruise Ship terminal that is also in final design stages as I type this. Portland's a happening little town!
Essentially, plans were announced today for the model that we're seeing a lot of very quickly these days with *wood --- that being half condos half lodging under various *wood banners, in this case, Westin.
Hotel is proposed to be about a block from the waterfront and would be mere steps from the new International Cruise Ship terminal that is also in final design stages as I type this. Portland's a happening little town!
Apr 7, 2005, 6:22 pm
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It will be nice to have an additional choice to the Hilton Garden Inn, right on the waterfront. The HGI is the only decent property at the water at the moment. And yes, Portland is a charming town.
Apr 7, 2005, 6:45 pm
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What a welcome addition to Portland. Excellent news!
Apr 7, 2005, 7:05 pm
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This is fantastic news! I'll now be enjoying my Heavenly Bed all morning, eating Amato's Italians for lunch, and at Fore Street for dinner. I won't even have to visit with family now when I go home! 
Apr 7, 2005, 7:13 pm
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a short stumble from Gritty McDuffs
Apr 8, 2005, 6:00 am
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I like the last two posts! Just Wednesday night, I had a few at Gritty's and then stumbled down to Fore Street with some colleauges for dinner! I'm lucky enough to live here!!! 
Jun 19, 2005, 7:06 pm
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Originally Posted by sbtinme
I like the last two posts! Just Wednesday night, I had a few at Gritty's and then stumbled down to Fore Street with some colleauges for dinner! I'm lucky enough to live here!!!
Visiting now and saw this update in a local freebie:http://www.theforecaster.net/story.php?storyid=2890
Westin developer seeks to go taller
By Kate Bucklin
PORTLAND – The group proposing to build a Westin hotel and luxury condominiums near the eastern waterfront are asking for some leniency in height and setback restrictions, and may get them in return for public access to the property.
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The council could consider PME’s conditional rezoning request by the end of the summer.
Also in maine news- a freeport company is going to start distilling potato vodka: http://www.theforecaster.net/story.php?storyid=2918
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Jun 19, 2005, 7:21 pm
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Originally Posted by TrojanHorse
a short stumble from Gritty McDuffs
I am older and more restrained now (most of the time) and I would love to go hang out in Portland again at a new Westin. Those airport and Maine mall hotels are just too far from the happening part of town.
Aug 11, 2005, 8:03 am
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Westin hotel, condos win board's support
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/ne...11westin.shtml
An excerpt:
Overall, planners praised the Westin proposal for its appearance, attention to detail, compatibility with the neighborhood and preservation of pedestrian access and waterfront views.
"It's ambitious and really a pretty great start to our waterfront development," said Leslie Lowry III, Planning Board chairman.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/ne...11westin.shtml
An excerpt:
Overall, planners praised the Westin proposal for its appearance, attention to detail, compatibility with the neighborhood and preservation of pedestrian access and waterfront views.
"It's ambitious and really a pretty great start to our waterfront development," said Leslie Lowry III, Planning Board chairman.
Aug 11, 2005, 8:58 am
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Just returned from a business trip to Portland/Saco area - first to the area. Beautiful area, indeed! :-:
Aug 11, 2005, 6:55 pm
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portland
Portland is a great town. Lived there 15 years, and still stay there often passing through or up from Boston. The one thing that sucks is, if I'm not staying with friends, the only SPG choice is the Sheraton near the airport and it's a mediocre hotel .. at best.
Aug 11, 2005, 10:09 pm
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Is the sheraton really that bad ?
Aug 12, 2005, 2:16 pm
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Originally Posted by couscous
Is the sheraton really that bad ?
That means, of course, that the rooms are large wedge shaped rooms. This makes for decent living space in the bedroom, but terribly tiny bathrooms (since they comprise the point of the wedge!).
The rooms are Starwood updated (SS bed, new carpeting/soft goods, limestone bathrooms, etc) about 2 years back. It's just the lobby and the parking and the exterior of the place that is lacking.
Sadly, without really imploding the place, there's not too much that will fix this issue.
Aug 11, 2006, 9:23 am
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Plans for hotel, condos scaled back
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/ne...10westin.shtml
Plans for a $110 million Westin hotel/condominium complex on the site of the shuttered Jordan's Meats plant in Portland are being scaled back, according to the Rhode Island firm that is leading the development.
The plan had included a 230-room hotel, 92 luxury condominiums, an estimated 20,000 square feet of retail space and hundreds of underground parking spaces.
The Procaccianti Group is now looking at a "significantly" smaller number of condo units, Tom Niles, executive vice president of development, said Wednesday. The number of hotel rooms will also be reduced, but Niles wouldn't give specific numbers for the condo or hotel side of the development.
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Niles said that, because sales of the luxury condos would help underwrite the hotel construction, scaling back on one end results in corresponding cuts to the other. "They have to work in unison." Ground-floor retail is still part of the plan, and office space may be included in the project as well.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/ne...10westin.shtml
Plans for a $110 million Westin hotel/condominium complex on the site of the shuttered Jordan's Meats plant in Portland are being scaled back, according to the Rhode Island firm that is leading the development.
The plan had included a 230-room hotel, 92 luxury condominiums, an estimated 20,000 square feet of retail space and hundreds of underground parking spaces.
The Procaccianti Group is now looking at a "significantly" smaller number of condo units, Tom Niles, executive vice president of development, said Wednesday. The number of hotel rooms will also be reduced, but Niles wouldn't give specific numbers for the condo or hotel side of the development.
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Niles said that, because sales of the luxury condos would help underwrite the hotel construction, scaling back on one end results in corresponding cuts to the other. "They have to work in unison." Ground-floor retail is still part of the plan, and office space may be included in the project as well.
Nov 14, 2009, 5:59 pm
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Jordan's Meats plant, vacant for years, to be sold
The buyer's name and plans for the site, where a hotel and condominium project was once proposed, are not disclosed
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/st...95755&ac=PHnws
"Its current owner, the Procaccianti Group of Cranston, R.I., planned to build a Westin Hotel and 97 luxury condos on the site, but never moved ahead with the development after getting city approval."
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/st...95755&ac=PHnws
"Its current owner, the Procaccianti Group of Cranston, R.I., planned to build a Westin Hotel and 97 luxury condos on the site, but never moved ahead with the development after getting city approval."