2024 Event Planner's Guide

PORTLAND’S NEIGHBORHOODS Arts District Greater Portland’s cultural epicenter encompasses an art school, world- renowned art museum, numerous galleries, professional theatre, and live performance venues. East Bayside This former industrial area is now exploding with breweries, distilleries, coffee shops, and other innovative businesses. East Bayside is definitely Portland’s new hot zone. East End The panoramic harbor views from the Eastern Prom cannot be matched else where in the city. Once a neglected neighborhood, the East End is on the rise and has become the hip area to live in Portland. The Observatory sits among a bevy of restaurants and small shops at the crown of Congress Street. Old Port/Waterfront Portland’s working waterfront is an attraction in and of itself. Renovated brick warehouses and tour boats line Commercial Street. Cruise ships dock daily in the fall. The Old Port is the heart of Portland’s shopping, dining, and nightlife scene. Parkside Taking its name from 55-acre Deering Oaks Park, this district is also home to the Portland Exposition Building, Troubh Ice Arena, University of Southern Maine, and Hadlock Field, home of the Portland Sea Dogs baseball team. Portland Foreside Revitalized 10-acre neighborhood along Portland’s historic eastern waterfront combining places to live, work, and play. Multi-phased development currently underway. Thompson’s Point Imaginative and dynamic, this newly developed waterfront district combines entertainment and conference facilities with an outdoor skating rink, a distillery, a brewery, and summer sunset events. West End Industrial-age mansions and Victorian- era architecture line the quiet streets of the city’s most elegant quarter. Enjoy a stroll along the Western Prom and dine in great restaurants favored by locals.

Tampa Washington /Dulles & Reagan *Seasonal non-stop service

COMMERCIAL AIRLINES SERVING PORTLAND

• American Airlines • Breeze Airways • Delta Air Lines • Elite Airways • Frontier Airlines • JetBlue Airways • Southwest Airlines • Sun Country Airlines • United Airlines

OTHER AIRPORTS Miles to Portland Augusta

60 miles 130 miles

Bangor

Bar Harbor 160 miles Logan (Boston) 100 miles Manchester (NH) 90 miles Pease (NH) 50 miles

NONSTOP FLIGHT CITIES Atlanta Baltimore Charleston Charlotte Chicago/Midway* & O’Hare Dallas* Denver* Detroit Ft. Myers* Miami* Minneapolis*/St. Paul* Nashville Newark New York/JFK & LaGuardia

FROM OTHER CITES

Approx Times

Approx MilesFlt.

Atlanta

1220

3:30 1:30 2:30 5:00 6:20 5:00 0:60 1:15 6:30 3:30 1:40

Baltimore Chicago

520

1095 1840 3265 1200

Dallas London

Nashville New York

320 415

Philadelphia San Francisco

3250 1500

Norfolk* Orlando Philadelphia Pittsburgh* Raleigh-Durham*

Tampa

PHOTOS, FROM LEFT: Courtesy NNEPRA/The Downeaster; CFW Photography (2); Amy Tolk

Washington, D.C.

535

The Jetport offers easy connections from many other destinations.

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