Courtesy / Hoyle, Tanner & Associates
A sketch showing the proposed design for the south side of the mixed-use building on Dennett Road. The building would include 64 apartments and 3,000 square feet of retail space.
June 24, 2020
Plans for massive $59M Kittery apartment complex go for final town approval
Courtesy / Hoyle, Tanner & Associates
A July 2019 aerial rendering of the proposed 303-unit multi-use residential complex in Kittery. The Maine Turnpike is shown at the right.
By William Hall
A proposal to build a $59 million, nine-building mixed-use complex with over 300 apartments in Kittery could receive a green light from the town’s planning board Thursday.
The development, which would be sited on 23 acres of undeveloped land at 76 Dennett Road, just off Exit 1 of the Maine Turnpike, has been in the works for over a year. The plan received preliminary approval last September.
Since then, developer Aztec LLC of Kennebunk and land owners William J. Cullen and Sail Away LLC have tweaked the plan and are now seeking final approval from the board.
If approved, construction could begin next spring and be complete in mid-2022, Project Manager Shawn M. Tobey of Portsmouth, N.H.-based Hoyle, Tanner & Associates told Mainebiz Wednesday.
The complex would include 303 studio, one- and two-bedroom market-rate apartments in three residential buildings, each four stories high. Plans also call for five covered parking structures and a 5,350-square-foot building with resident amenities. One of the apartment buildings, facing Dennett Road, would contain 3,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space — probably a fast casual restaurant and a variety store, according to planning documents.
A new roadway and access to turnpike on-ramps are also planned. The site, currently comprising three separate parcels of land, is in a Mixed Use-Neighborhood land zone bordering the turnpike to the south.
If approved and built as planned, the 76 Dennett Road complex could help Kittery address a growing need for housing, said Tobey. The town is already home to hundreds of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard’s 7,300 civilian employees. People who work there or in downtown Portsmouth are increasingly finding themselves priced out by rents and forced to live farther north.
“There’s a big crunch in Kittery to look for new housing,” Tobey said. “Putting 300 apartments near the turnpike will definitely help.”
The planning board is scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. Thursday in Kittery Town Hall, 200 Rogers Road.
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