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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

Portland, Maine's legendary Asylum was demolished and reborn twice the size. Aura at 121 Center Street, in the heart of the downtown peninsula, opened in April 2017 after a 9.1-million-dollar project that razed and rebuilt the building that had housed the Asylum nightclub since 1997 - the WBRC-designed reconstruction adding two storeys, a balcony level and state-of-the-art production, and doubling concert capacity to about 1,000. The result slots precisely into the gap in the city's venue ladde...