From: 	Rick Knowland
To:	Helen Donaldson
Date: 	9/4/2012 3:59 PM
Subject: 	Fwd: Tim Soley's hotel proposal

fyi.

>>> Richard McGoldrick <rmcgoldrick@comprop-1.com> Tuesday, September 04, 2012 >>>
I will be away on the hearing day. Please convey my thoughts to the  
members of the Planning Board. I am totally supportive of this (as  
well as the Press Herald building) proposal. Portland is in very  
serious trouble with the amount of vacant office space in the City  
(several hundred thousand square feet) as a result on the ongoing  
recession,Maine's no growth economy, and such misguided Portland  
actions like the Pierce Atwood TIF. We support any development the  
will not add to this vacany problem, and has the prospect of bringing  
potential new tenants/businesses to the City.
Thank you, Dick McGoldrick