BRUNSWICK

Brunswick Landing soon will have five new tenants — the first wave of what’s expected to be a steady influx of new development and business at the former Navy base.

The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority board met this morning during a special business meeting to discuss and sign leases and property purchase-andsale agreements for the newcomers.

The flurry of activity was expected, according to Steve Levesque, MRRA’s executive director. Its release was dependent on approval of a subdivision plan — passed last week by the Planning Board — defining the boundaries of the property’s individual lots.

Today’s group of pacts is only the beginning of “a backlog” of requests that total more than $14 million in potential revenue, Levesque said. Approved agreements include:

— Village Green Ventures LLC, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based startup which hopes to site a bacteria-driven power generation facility near the runways. Its land lease application was amended to increase the lot size to 4.25 acres, at 25 cents per square foot. Village Green Ventures intends to build its own physical plant to harness methane gas produced by bacterial decomposition, and use it to generate electricity and heat for itself, as well as other Brunswick Landing tenants.

— Midcoast Veterans Council, a local non-profit headed by Roger Dumont, received approval to establish a veterans’ help center. The center first will live in a temporary location, in a former living quarters at 60 Forrestal Drive, for about two years while the U.S. Navy finishes environmental remediation on its original plot. MRRA will hold the $100,000 mortgage on the building, with the veterans service responsible for other ownership costs plus a 1.8 percent interest fee to MRRA too satisfy Internal Revenue Service regulations.

— Priority Group, a Topsham developer, agreed to purchase three acres and two buildings — for a total of about 36,000 square feet of floor space — for $1.1 million.

James Howard, Priority Group’s president, said it would own the property at the northwest corner of Burbank Avenue and Pegasus Street and, once renovated into educational and administrative space, serve as long-term landlord for its tenant.

Renovations likely will begin within 60 days and its tenant would move in by August 1, Howard added.

— Seeds of Independence, a nonprofit counseling and life-coaching orgnization that works with troubled teenagers, agreed to pay $510,000 for what eventually will be a centralized campus.

— Board members approved a 20-year, $250,000 loan through the Maine Rural Development Authority for MRRA itself, which will act as landlord for an incoming information technology company’s call center in Building 250, an existing hangar on Orion Street.

The incoming tenant, Savi Systems LLC, will support between 80 and 100 new jobs, Levesque said.

With Savi Systems installed above, Building 250 would be among the former base’s busiest structures: the bottom floor is slated to be a hightech business incubator, linked with Maine Technology Institute across the street on Venture Avenue.

As collateral for the loan, MRRA agreed to put up the Maine Technological Institute building.

jtleonard@timesrecord.com