BAR HARBOR, Maine — In a town looking for ways to make new housing, almost 180-acres is for sale with five existing housing lots and potential for more.
The property off the Crooked Road is owned by Christopher Bettencourt and Denise Carey Bettencourt. It was called the Brigadoon Subdivision when the town approved the five housing lots in 2024.
According to its listing, the 179.2-acre property is one of the largest parcels available in Bar Harbor. The next largest is 9.37 waterfront acres on Belle Grande Drive, listed for $924,500.
Some of the lots within the parcel couldn’t be offered for sale until the road into the site is built, and part of one lot couldn’t be built on or crossed and will likely remain undeveloped.
“We have to work with the site and with Mother Nature and this has come together well,” landscape architect and project representative Perry Moore said in 2024.
At the time, the property had a proposed road where now multiple trees have fallen down in winter storms.
With portions of the site within 5-kilometers of the habitat of an endangered species of bat, the Bettencourts rethought the project to avoid wetland alterations.
Because of the bats and other considerations, the original subdivision plan was scaled back in 2024 from its initial 14-lot sketch plan.
The parcel has about 1,493 feet of frontage on Crooked Road. There has been extensive pre-development work at the site.
According to the April 23 listing by Lamacchia Realty, Inc., “Its proximity to conserved lands further enhances a sense of seclusion amidst the island’s natural beauty.”
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