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Westbrook Quarry To Be The Site of 750-Unit Apartment Complex

A proposal for a 750-unit apartment complex in Westbrook is drawing attention in the area's real estate community.

The complex would be sited on an old quarry, and the plan is to keep some of that resource intact while developing retail and hospitality space.

“They have over 100 acres and they are really thinking really clearly about the project,” said Lynn Tillotson, president of the area promotional group Visit Portland. “They want to talk to people and find out from the residents what we want, what we need, and they're really doing a good job with keeping it mixed use."

Some in the local real estate community have said they hope that if the project wins local permits, it would be phased in at a rate that would not upend the local market.

Calls to the Massachusetts-based developer, Waterstone Properties group, were not immediately returned.

A Columbia University graduate, Fred began his journalism career as a print reporter in Vermont, then came to Maine Public in 2001 as its political reporter, as well as serving as a host for a variety of Maine Public Radio and Maine Public Television programs. Fred later went on to become news director for New England Public Radio in Western Massachusetts and worked as a freelancer for National Public Radio and a number of regional public radio stations, including WBUR in Boston and NHPR in New Hampshire.