That project has recently begun. The Classic car dealership at Depot Road announced plans to move and will be replaced by yet-unnamed retailers. Rite Aid took an option on land now occupied by Key Bank and an Exxon gas station at Bucknam Road, across from where MaineHealth opened a medical office complex. Motorists cruising past this half-mile of commercial clutter may find it hard to conceive of this area as a village square. But scattered across a 72-acre rectangle on the west side of Route 1 is a fire station, four baseball fields, tennis courts, a library and skating rink.
Elementary schools are nearby.
They are just hard to notice from the highway. In an artist's rendering of Falmouth Village Center, walkways link Wal-Mart and Rite Aid to community buildings and recreation facilities. They're just not assembled. That's what we're working on now. To stitch it all together, Falmouth wants Wal-Mart, Rite Aid and other new businesses to design buildings on a human scale.