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Developer, Town Still Scrapping Over 1,800-Acre Parcel

PLYMOUTH, MA-A.D. Makepeace, a Wareham-based development company, tells GlobeSt.com that it is working with the town to come up with a plan for its 1,800 acres here. The company has met with fierce opposition from conservation groups.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on January 17, 2002

PLYMOUTH, MA-In light of the fierce opposition from conservation groups over its intention to develop its 1,800-acre parcel here, A.D. Makepeace tells GlobeSt.com that it is working with the town to come up with a plan that everyone can live with.

Company spokesperson Kevin O’Reilly says that Makepeace has met with Plymouth’s planning board to talk about concepts, but he says the Cranberry Country Coalition, the group formed to oppose Makepeace’s development plans for the 6,000 acres it owns here and in Wareham and Carver, “doesn’t want to hear about concepts. It’s interesting that they are opposed to a project that hasn’t been presented. They want us to give them the land.”

O’Reilly is referring to an offer made to Makepeace by a group of federal and state conservation groups to purchase a large portion of its property in this area. O’Reilly says that because of the “form and substance and timing and amount,” the offer was rejected. The amount of the offer was not disclosed. “They think a strong PR push by the conservation groups will force Makepeace back to the table to accept the offer that was rejected,” he says. “They keep saying there was a second offer. If a new offer came up, we would look at it. But there was no second offer.”

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