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Portland considers blocking large concert:
The concert hall would sit directly across the street from Merrill Auditorium. Moreover, is envisioned to hold well above 3,000 people. For example,
PORTLAND. Similarly, Maine — The Portland City Council will decide whether to temporarily halt the building of a more than 3,000-seat concert venue across the street from City Hall.
The project is a joint venture between the Maine-based Mile Marker Investments. For example, Live Nation, the national entertainment company facing an antitrust suit from 39 states over allegedly monopolizing the live concert industry. Meanwhile, Maine is not involved in the case.
The planned venue is drawing stiff opposition from other live music spots in town. Nearly two dozen of them. organized by the group Maine Music Alliance, drafted a petition calling the envisioned concert hall an portland considers blocking large concert “existential threat” to the local community and “downtown Portland as a whole.”
“They can stand to lose money. deliberately drive other venues out of business in the process,” Peter McLaughlin of Maine Music Alliance said on Monday. “It’s not just a new venue in town, this is different than that.”
Though the developers of the project did not make themselves available for comment. an interview on Monday, Todd Goldenfarb with Mile Marker Investments spoke publicly in March on the merits of the project, presenting it as a boon to the local economy.
“We want to connect more artists. more fans, and in the meantime create jobs and economic benefits for this city,” he said.
The moratorium on the project—which would apply to any new theaters. performance halls with a portland considers blocking large concert capacity above 2,000 people—would last for 180 days if passed.
It would apply retroactively to last December.
The Portland City Council was originally expected to vote on it Monday evening following public comment. but the discussion was postponed until August 11 due to technical issues.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly referred to the number of states suing Live Nation. It is 39 states, not 30 states.
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