CommunityScale

Bayside Master Plan

Client Reveler Development
LocationPortland, Maine
PartnerStantec’s Urban Places
ServicesConsulting
Timeline2023
DeliverableMaster plan

While working at Stantec’s Urban Places, CommunityScale team members led the creation of this master plan. In a collaboration between urban planning, architecture, and landscape architecture teams, we created a master plan for Portland’s largest mixed-use development in a generation, located within the vibrant and historic Bayside neighborhood a few blocks from downtown. The plan synthesized the developer’s program goals and residents’ values into a vision for a walkable, inclusive, and dynamic neighborhood that replaces surface parking lots with mixed-income housing and rehabilitates historic buildings for refreshed commercial and community use. The effort included initial visioning to establish a framework plan; community engagement to refine the vision and plan with neighborhood and City stakeholders; and design, documentation, and public presentations to translate the vision into a cohesive design package and secure master plan approvals from the City.

Bayside Master Plan

Rendering of the proposed project. Read more about the project at Reveler.com.

Jeff Sauser

Jeff Sauser, co-founding Principal at CommunityScale, has over 10 years experience leading urban design and planning projects for public and private sector clients in complex urban contexts across the country. His work emphasizes the role of housing policy and production in driving economic development progress and creating opportunities for socioeconomic mobility across the community. He is particularly interested in applying emerging big data resources and AI tools to help clients and communities plan smarter and more proactively.