BRUNSWICK

A new gas station may be coming to the entrance of Brunswick Landing on Bath Road, site of the former Brunswick Naval Air Station. The planning board will take up the sketch plan on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at town hall.

C.N. Brown wants to build a 5,100- square-foot convenience store that includes a drive-thru Dunkin’ Donuts, with an eight-pump island, and an additional diesel pumping station, according to a memo from Town Planner Jeremy Doxsee.

The gas station/convenience store will be built on 1.62 acres of new impervious surface on a wooded, 2.67-acre site. There will be 23 parking spaces.

There have been a few concerns by town staff which conducted a recent review of the proposal, including curb cuts that may be too wide and confusing, ingress and egress into the site, and use of an access way leading from Bath Road to Allagash Road.

Topsham developer Jim Howard’s company, Priority Real Estate LLC, has an agreement with the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority to buy the property. Howard is expected to then sell that property to C.N. Brown.

The project is contingent on approval from the Maine’s Department of Transportation and Department of Environmental Protection.

“The plan has been developed in accordance with Common Develop- ment Plan approved by the planning board in July of 2014,” according to Doxsee.

That plan was adopted to guide development in areas near the entrance of Brunswick Landing.

The gas station is part of Priority’s overall planned $20 million development of eight buildings and 10 additional lots on 19 acres near the former base’s main entrance.

Other structures and businesses conceptualized there include a banquet hall/convention center, offices, professional building, restaurant and a bank.

Meanwhile, real estate development and transactions are continuing within the former base as well. In November, MRRA, which oversees Brunswick Landing, sold Building 54. That location is home to window coverings company RollEase, which opened a research, testing and development facility there this year.

The Connecticut-based company just announced it acquired Australian-based Acmeda, “and will merge their operations to form the largest independent engineered component manufacturer and distributor in the alternative window coverings industry,” according to a RollEase statement.

“This merger gives us a much greater global footprint.

For the Innovation Center located here in Brunswick, Maine, it means more design work across a greater number of product categories and the opportunity to work directly with more customers across the globe,” said Greg Farr, RollEase senior vice president, in a statement. “This also means we will be expanding our staff slightly to focus on new products we will be bringing in from Acmeda to distribute in the U.S., as well as some co-design work for energy management centered on the window.”

American Bureau of Shipping also leases space at Building 54, and there are about 35 employees between the two companies.

The sale also includes about 12 acres of land as well as Building 639, which is unoccupied.

The property was sold to Cardente Real Estate of Portland for $1.486 million, according to MRRA Executive Director Steve Levesque.

Also at Brunswick Landing, Blue Dog Daycare opened last month at the former SeaBee Complex on 41 Acadia St. The business offers “a place where dogs come to play, exercise, socialize and learn … for dogs whose owners are away during the day, or for dogs who need extra activity and social interaction,” according to Blue Dog’s website.

The plan

C.N. BROWN WANTS to build a 5,100-square-foot convenience store that includes a drive-thru Dunkin’ Donuts, with an eight-pump island, and an additional diesel pumping station.

The gas station/convenience store will be built on 1.62 acres of new impervious surface on a wooded, 2.67- acre site. There will be 23 parking spaces.

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