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Projected design from City of Portland Historical Preservation Board proposal [http://www.portlandmaine.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/6106?fileID=33263]

We interrupt the teeth-gnashing over Munjoy Hill condo heights to take you to the post-railway wilderness of Libbytown, where Maine Medical Center’s 96-foot tall, 500-foot long, 2,500-stall employee parking garage is moving through the planning process.

This will be a massive structure, easily the biggest garage in Maine. Were it built for housing, it would hold roughly 1,000 apartments. It will sit in the vast parking lot next to the strip mall where old Union Station used to be and where Maine Hardware and Save-a-Lot supermarket are now.

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Projected design from City of Portland Historical Preservation Board proposal [http://www.portlandmaine.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/6106?fileID=33263]