WESTBROOK – Westbrook will soon be welcoming its first Goodwill retail store, when the nonprofit thrift store moves into the former Coastal Fitness building on Larrabee Road.

At a Planning Board meeting Tuesday, Curt Neufeld, a civil engineer with Brunswick-based firm, Sitelines, outlined the Goodwill project. He said Goodwill Industries of Northern New England, which operates 27 retail stores, would renovate the interior and exterior of the Coastal Fitness gym.

The 13,000-square-foot building, at 200 Larrabee Road, will receive site improvements such as new lighting and landscaping. Neufeld said the project would occur in two phases, with an eventual 4,000-square-foot building extension taking place toward the street side of the property.

The board approved the Goodwill site plan. The Westbrook location will be added to multiple retail stores in the Greater Portland region, including a large distribution center in neighboring Gorham. Coastal Fitness’s only location is now in Kittery. A call to Randy Finamore, Goodwill retail president, was not returned by the American Journal’s deadline Wednesday.

In other Planning Board action, the board voted unanimously in support of a site plan and subdivision for the proposed condominium complex at the site of the former Prides Corner Elementary School.

The project, a 46-unit, 23-condominium complex, has been a long time coming for both the developer, Vincent Maietta, and abutting neighbors in the vicinity of Pride Street.

Following a failed plan last year from Maietta’s company V&E Enterprises, which called for 98 units in three large buildings on the site, Stephen Goodrich, CEO of the Portland-based credit card processor, PowerPay, purchased the property in February. Maietta is a partner in the current development and has been representing Goodrich at public meetings.

At a public hearing prior to the vote, a few residents thanked Maietta and civil engineer Shawn Frank, of Sebago Technics, for their months of work on the plan. In response to requests from both the public and Planning Board members, the plan now includes a monument to the former school, which will be built with bricks from the school building.

Frank also said the condo complex will be dubbed “Winslow Green” condominiums, after the Winslow family that once lived on the land.

Maietta said he hopes construction will begin this fall and winter, but the board granted him a five-year construction window.

Goodwill Industries of Northern New England plans improvements to the former Coastal Fitness building on Larrabee Road to house its first Westbrook retail store.