OXFORD – A sketch plan for the Oxford Hills region’s largest shopping center, dominated by a Home Depot store, will be presented to the Planning Board on Thursday.

The plans show that while Home Depot will dominate the 53-acre Route 26 project, the developers intend to attract at least two large retailers, 10,000 and 20,000 square feet in size, and a restaurant.

Thursday’s meeting opens at 7 p.m. in Oxford Town Hall.

The plans show a 160,000-square-foot Home Depot store, including a 28,000-square-foot garden center, on the rear of the old drive-in property. In front, where the drive-in once stood, will be a parking lot for 450 cars.

The main access to the shopping center will follow an existing access road beside the vacant Oxford True Value hardware building, which will be torn down. In its place would be a planned 5,770-square-foot restaurant with parking for 45 cars.

Behind the restaurant would be another parking lot, for 212 cars, that would serve the retail shops. Along with the larger spaces, there are plans for three other stores of 3,500, 4,000 and 6,000 square feet each.

All in all, the project calls for about 176,000 square feet of retail space, a 5,770-square-foot restaurant, and about 700 parking spaces.

The developer, W/S Development, has not said which retailers may lease space there. The development company is the largest shopping center developer in Maine and works with about 100 national retailers.

The sketch plan has been submitted by Gorrill-Palmer Consulting Engineers Inc. of Gray on behalf of W/S Development. The project will also require approval from the Department of Environmental Protection, under its Site Location of Development Act.

Gorrill-Palmer said in a summary of the project to the board that a Phase One Archeological Survey has been completed on the site, and “no significant findings were reported.”

The Maine Historic Preservation Committee is currently reviewing the report. To the rear of the property is the Little Androscoggin River, and archaeologists found a prehistoric Indian site during construction of the nearby Wal-Mart Supercenter in the 1990s.