Portland, ME According to Harriman and The Cecil Group, a newly merged architecture, engineering urban design, planning, and landscape architecture firm with offices in Portland and Auburn, Maine, Manchester, N.H., and Boston, Mass., Emily Keys Innes, LEED AP ND, has been promoted to the position of senior urban planner.
In this position, she will continue to be responsible for managing the firm’s more complex planning projects and will help guide the firm’s integration of planning into the newly merged firm. In addition, Keys Innes recently earned her AICP certification. Offered through the American Planning Association (APA), AICP is the only nationwide, independent verification of a planner’s qualifications.
The multifamily market in Maine’s major cities presents a diverse range of opportunities for investors. We looked at the potential benefits and unique characteristics of three major submarkets in the state: Portland, Bangor, and Lewiston-Auburn. The information below is based on research done in CoStar and county registries, and focuses on multifamily properties that have four or more units.
As we all know, interest rates have been changing drastically, with movement in both directions, depending on the type and term of financing. The Federal Open Market Committee has taken drastic action in efforts to curb abnormally high inflation, but it hasn’t controlled labor cost growth to the extent that was intended.