THOMASTON, Maine — The planning board will consider later this month a proposal for an 11,000-square-foot commercial building that would house Aspen Dental and other tenants.
The July 21 meeting is to review a request on behalf of Greeley Associates to allow a previously approved building to be 11,000 square feet instead of 10,000 square feet, as was noted in the original plan submitted to develop the Wal-Mart supercenter campus.
Thomaston Code Enforcement Officer William Wasson said the developer plans to construct the building that would face Route 1 between the entrance to the shopping center and Dorman’s Dairy Dream. Access to the new building would be along the road to Wal-Mart.
One tenant already has signed on to be in the building — Aspen Dental — according to Wasson. Aspen would occupy 3,500 square feet in the new structure.
Aspen Dental has 535 offices across the United States and plans to expand to 600 in 2016, according to the company’s website.
A telephone message left with Aspen Dental on Thursday morning was not immediately returned.
The remainder of the building would be divided into three units, one being larger than the other two, the code officer said.
The owner of the development is Greely Associates, whose principal manager is Scott Shapiro of Paia, Hawaii, according to records filed with the corporation division of the Maine Secretary of State.
The 150,000-square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter opened in October 2013. That was followed by a Tractor Supply store, which opened in its own free-standing building in the same Greely Associates development.