Wiscasset Town Planner Jamel Torres is trying to help make prospective businesses aware of what’s on the market in town.

Torres, who started as planner in December 2014, has put together an inventory of 19 lots for sale with buildings on Main, Churchill, Fort Hill and Water streets and Gardiner and Bath roads; three undeveloped lots for sale on Bath and Old Ferry roads; and space for lease at 510 and 681 Bath Road.

The inventory includes a map, thanks to a partnership with Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission community development specialist Zach Mosher, Torres states in a July 13 report to Town Manager Marian Anderson.

“My hope is that this marketing campaign will help attract new businesses to the town of Wiscasset and increase the town’s tax base,” Torres writes.

The inventory gives properties’ addresses and map and lot numbers, zoning, prices, past uses, acreage, and the real estate agents’ names, phone numbers and email addresses.

In an interview July 20, Torres said he got the idea for an inventory when someone interested in starting a business asked him what locations were available in town. “It kind of hit me that there wasn’t a document I could just go to.”

Fellow members of the Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce board provided feedback as he developed the inventory.

Coastal Enterprises’ (CEI) three downtown buildings on Water Street are on the inventory. They remain on the market as the nonprofit prepares to move to Brunswick. The only town-owned lot on the list is the 327-acre piece on Old Ferry Road being eyed for zoning as a planned development district.

The market has been slow since CEI’s Water Street properties went up for sale around the end of 2014, CEI construction analyst Tom Donahue said July 20.

“So the town helping out commercial properties is a wonderful thing,” Donahue said.

Donahue added his praise for Torres’ efforts as planner. “It’s good to have that energy and for him to take that initiative, he seems to be an active planner and that’s good for the town of Wiscasset.”

The inventory is on the Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission’s website at www.lcrpc.org, and on the Planning and Development Department’s page of the town website at www.wiscasset.org.

Torres plans to update the inventory monthly, adding new listings that have come on the market, removing properties that have sold, and putting in any price changes.

Torres based the list on Wiscasset commercial listings at www.mainelistings.com. Any seller interested in getting their commercial property added to the town’s inventory may contact Torres at 207 882-8200, ext. 106, or townplanner@wiscasset.org.