PART OF THE Maine Street Station development in Brunswick.
The firms developing Maine Street Station properties in downtown Brunswick have been granted another two-year extension on the project in the hopes that the market improves.
The Planning Board last week approved the extension, said Town Planner Jeremy Doxsee.
There have already been two, two-year extensions of the project, which lies along the railroad tracks on a section of land between Station Avenue and Noble Street, bordered on the west by Union Street and to the east by Maine Street.
One extension was granted in 2010, the other in 2012. The current extension expires June 24.
Doxsee said the developers do not know when the project will be completed, but said they hoped it would be finished “in the next few years.”
These types of extensions are not unusual for larger projects, Doxsee said, especially in light of the 2008 recession.
The Maine Street Station project entails the development of six lots in total.
The four developed lots are:
— The current location of the Bowdoin bookstore on the corner of Maine Street and Station Avenue;
— The current location of The Brunswick Inn and Tavern;
— And two lots to that contain the train station, medical offices, bank and restaurants on the first floor.
One undeveloped lot lays on the south end of the project.
Another sits at the intersection with Union Street, and is used as a parking lot. Both lots will have buildings constructed on them.
“As market conditions improve, it is the intent of the developer to complete the project,” wrote Anna B. Breinich, director of planning and development for Brunswick, to the Planning Board on May 9.
Efforts to reach Curtis Neufeld, vice president of Sitelines, were unsuccessful. However, in a March 5 letter to Doxsee, Neufeld said that “additional time is necessary to complete the remaining buildings and another two-year extension to the approval is necessary to pursue these efforts.”
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