A Vision for Maine’s Tallest Tower Would Transform Portland's Historic District
May 22, 2025
The global architectural firm founded by Moshe Safdie proposed reimagining a four-acre area of open space with a retail pavilion and a 30-story hotel/residential tower that will be the tallest building in the city, and the state.
By Johanna Knapschaefer, Engineering News Record
Unveiling the comprehensive design for the city’s Old Port Square area earlier this month, Safdie said he and his team address the challenge of designing a tower in a city of mostly low-rise buildings by latching onto the concept of the building as a beacon.
“Old Port Square was born from this idea that we could fix what was torn asunder and enhance with modern architecture that could also speak to where Portland, and Maine, is going,” Tim Soley, president of Portland-based project developer East Brown Cow, said in a statement.