Neighborhoods in Portland, Maine
The neighborhood is mostly residential with some commercial business located within Woodford's Corner and along Ocean Avenue.
The state's only Whole Foods and Trader Joe's supermarkets are located in the Bayside neighborhood, on Somerset Street and Marginal Way, respectively.
[9] The Stone Street Playground is located in the neighborhood and is popular in the summertime because of the splash pad fountain and the proximity to the Old Port.
[10] The neighborhood association rents plots in the community garden located on Chestnut Street across from the Daymark condominium building that was built in 2022.
The map on Barry & Anderson's Deering: A Social and Architectural History,[12] p. 15, is ambiguous as to the neighborhood's precise borders.
Deering Highlands was developed in the late 19th century, and maintains much of its original historical character, including numerous examples of architecture by John Calvin Stevens, Frederick A Tompson, and other regional architects.
The complex is now home of the New England Rehabilitation Hospital of Portland and also houses training facilities and an urgent care center.
Much of the debris from the Portland fire of 1866 was deposited into Back Cove, significantly increasing the size of East Bayside.
Now a suburban and residential neighborhood, it is situated between Munjoy Hill and North Deering, as well as the town of Falmouth.
Businesses are located on Washington Avenue and Veranda Street, where there are restaurants, an ice cream shop, and a juice bar.
Major landmarks in this neighborhood include Tukey's Bridge, the B&M Baked Beans factory, Martin's Point, Presumpscot School, Grand Trunk Cemetery, Payson Park, and Lunts Corner.
[15] In 2021, the Roux Institute purchased the B&M factory in order to convert it into a campus with academic buildings, student housing, a hotel, and public waterfront access.
The East End Community School, located on North Street, serves the area.
[19] Maine's busiest public transit hub, the Portland Transportation Center, is in Libbytown.
While part of the independent town of Deering in the 1890s, the area was primarily agricultural, with acres of strawberries and fields of hay.
Capisic Brook runs through part of the neighborhood, and its banks were home to the Lucas and Hamblet family-run brickyards, which were sold throughout New England.
It included affordable bungalow style homes named for English counties (Devon, Dorset, Essex, Kent, and Warwick).
The park will be part of a greening effort to restore its intended use as a "Learning Environment" by building new natural play scapes.
Following the end of the war, the federal government sought to sell housing developments like Sagamore and Redbank in neighboring South Portland.
It is situated between the Riverton and East Deering neighborhoods of the city, as well as bordering the town of Falmouth.
It consists mostly of owner-occupied homes, a few businesses, and the Portland campus of the University of Southern Maine.
[24] The neighborhood includes the Southworth Planetarium, the Sullivan Athletic Complex, and the Glickman Library.
It was supposed to primarily include "high-density affordable housing", but instead the developers "remodeled the building to create 22 market-rate apartments.
Residents moved south across the peninsula and laid out Sherman Avenue and Grant Avenue (now streets), named after Civil War generals William Tecumseh Sherman and future President Ulysses S. Grant.
The island is served by Casco Bay Lines and has its own elementary school, library, and police station.
The Saint John Valley Neighborhood Association was created in 2008 in an effort to define an area of the city that lacked funding and recognition.
Since its inception, many improvements have been made and more are planned, such as traffic calming, beautification, and over-all streetscaping to create a more pedestrian-friendly environment.
[19] Maine's busiest airport, the Portland International Jetport, originally known as Stroudwater Field, is located here.
Stroudwater is home to a number of historic structures, including the oldest standing publicly accessible building in Portland, the Tate House and Museum, which was built in 1755.
In the 2000s, Stroudwater was considered a quiet suburb of downtown Portland, though it is still officially within the city boundaries.
