Brunswick to buy land for $4 million, preventing controversial housing development

TIMES RECORD • November 22, 2022

Brunswick will spend $4 million to buy 283 acres from a developer that hoped to build a large-scale housing project. The land deal would kill the project, assuaging fears of locals concerned the development would harm the already-weakened health of Maquoit Bay. The deal will be finalized next month, after the Town Council unanimously backed the purchase in a vote Monday evening. “Whether you’ve come at it from an environmental angle, a housing angle or a little bit of both,” Councilor Dan Ankeles told meeting attendees, “I am thankful that we’re about to come together as a community and choose not to be passive observers of an unsustainable process.”