WILTON — The Board of Selectpersons extended the deadline Tuesday for those interested in buying and developing the Wilton Tannery property to May 1.

The board voted to send a request for proposals for the sale and development in November. No response, not even any calls with questions about the property, were received by the Jan. 2 deadline, Town Manager Rhonda Irish told the board.

Requests were sent to everyone who expressed interest in the property during the cleanup phase and others, she said. It was also advertised in the New England Real Estate Journal.

There is one corporation still interested in the property but the deadline around the holidays did not work for them, Selectperson Tiffany Maiuri said.

“Our time frame didn’t meet their time frame,” she said. She moved to extend the deadline to April 1.

Irish suggested extending it to May 1 to allow people who may want to see the property after snow melted.

The board agreed. Board of Selectpersons Chairman Scott Taylor and selectpersons Maiuri and John Black voted for the extension.

The town accepted the 15-acre property in 2010 for $74,600 in unpaid taxes.

Wilton received a $200,000 federal EPA grant in 2012 and a total of $187,000 from the Maine DEP and the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development to clean up the site for future economic development.

The cleanup was completed in August.

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