PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • February 4, 2021
Sixty years ago, Portland’s political leaders allowed the Maine Central Railroad’s magnificent train station on St. John Street to be blown up. It was replaced with a strip mall. A disgrace. On Monday night, five Portland city councilors demonstrated the same lack of foresight as their long-ago predecessors when they prevailed on a 5-4 vote to kill a historic district designation intended to protect against rapacious development, already well underway. Unchecked, over time, developers will succeed in their get-rich quest for wall-to-wall million-dollar condominiums on Munjoy Hill. So much for affordable housing. ~ Michael Petit and Pamela Day, Portland