POLAND — Developers hope to break ground on the town’s first industrial park this summer. It’s owned by Thompson Rolec Enterprises LLC and the Lewiston company plans to move into one of the initial seven lots next year.

“We started off just looking for a piece of land for ourselves,” Dan Doyle, general manager of operations for Thompson, said. “We liked where it was and we liked the zoning and it kind of made sense.”

Jim Coffin, one owner of E.S. Coffin Engineering & Surveying, said he planned to resubmit a stormwater management permit this week to the Department of Environmental Protection for the project on Lewiston Junction Road. The nearly-28-acre site, former farmland, already has town approval for road and subdivision permits. With DEP approval in hand, Coffin said work can begin on the 2,200-foot paved road with a cul-de-sac.

Doyle said that work encompasses phase 1 of the new Poland Business Park. When it’s built out in three phases on 100 acres he anticipates between 20 and 30 lots. The property borders 1,500 feet of rail and has easy turnpike access.

Thompson has operated behind the Aroostook Fence Co. on Lisbon Street in Lewiston since 1986. It specializes in sales and service for rock crushers and screening equipment with work all over New England. Doyle said the new location would open in 2013.

“We will be bigger, (but) I don’t know how many jobs we’ll add,” he said.

The company employs 12 people now.

“They are looking to build a first-class industrial park,” said John Cleveland, Poland’s community and economic development consultant.
Development borders the Auburn Industrial Park and augments activity already going on around the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport, he said.
“We’re very pleased for Poland but it’s also good for the region,” Cleveland said.
 
For the area it means jobs, for Poland added value to its tax rolls.
 
Coffin said the project has been in the works since 2010. “It’s a very nice area, the soils are great out there.”
 
kskelton@sunjournal.com
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