JAY – Jay Development Corp. directors voted Wednesday to ask voters to raise $25,000 in April for engineering and design work to lay out six lots for an industrial park behind the Jay Plaza.
The board also voted to accept Main-Land Development Consultants Inc.’s bid to do the work pending funding at the town meeting.
The Livermore Falls company was the lower of the two proposals received.
The 34 acres of town land is in a Pine Tree Zone that the state established as an incentive for eligible business areas including manufacturing and services.
Voters already gave approval to the town to buy a strip of land from the state to cross the former railroad bed now used as a recreational trail to access the town’s land.
Franklin County already has one business in the Pine Tree Zone, New England Wire Products in Kingfield, Alison Hagerstrom, executive director of Greater Franklin Development Corp., said.
ScoreHealth Inc., a health care software company that was certified as a Pine Tree Zone business in Wilton in 2004, has suspended operations, Hagerstrom said, after Selectman Rick Simoneau asked how many businesses were in the zone in Franklin County.
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