Sebago Brewing Co. has unexpectedly tabled its request for a contract zone to allow the firm to build a new headquarters at Mosher’s Corner in Gorham.

Gorham Planner Tom Poirier announced the company’s decision during Monday’s meeting of the town’s Planning Board, which was set to discuss the plan.

“The location didn’t fit our needs but we are still looking for a location in the area,” Kai Adams, co-founder of Sebago Brewing, said in an email to the American Journal Tuesday. “The town of Gorham has been very accommodating and helpful with the process and we hope to identify a location before the end of the year.”

Its headquarters is now in Gorham Industrial Park.

“We are very hopeful that Sebago Brewing will locate their new planned headquarters in Gorham,” David Galbraith, Gorham’s zoning administrator, said Wednesday. “They have been, and continue to be, a great Gorham business and we hope they decide to remain in town. It is also my understanding that they are still looking at a number of properties in town.”

Besides its headquarters, Sebago Brewing has a restaurant on Elm Street in Gorham, as well as locations in Portland, Scarborough and Kennebunk.

The firm appeared to be on a fast track for contract zone approval for a new headquarters. It was on a Planning Board agenda for a workshop and regular meeting on Monday. At the behest of the company, the Planning Board voted 6-0 to indefinitely table the contract zone request.

The proposal was also on the Town Council agenda Tuesday. Town Manager David Cole said the matter was contingent on Planning Board action and should be tabled. The panel tabled the request until the Planning Board makes a recommendation.

The firm had told town councilors about its plans for Mosher’s Corner on Sept. 1. Sebago Brewing Co. has been headquartered in Gorham Industrial Park for 10 years. But, Adams said last month it had outgrown the facility and was proposing to build at Mosher’s Corner, the intersection of Main Street (Route 25) and Mosher Road (Route 237), two heavily used commuter routes.

Its plans for a 30,000-square-foot facility across from Martins’s Point Health Care had included new corporate offices, a production facility, warehouse, restaurant and kitchens, along with a function area and a tasting room. The site is served by public water, sewer and natural gas.

The site is zoned for office commercial but would not allow a production facility. So, the proposed facility would require Town Council approval for a contract zone,

The Town Council had sent the request to the Planning Board for its recommendation. Sebago Brewing was to be reviewed by planners on Sept. 14, but a lengthy agenda pushed it to Oct. 5.

Galbraith said both the town and Tom Ellsworth, director of Gorham Economic Development Corp., are in contact with Sebago.

“The Town Council wants to keep them in town,” Galbraith said Wednesday.

In other Planning Board action on Monday:

• Susan Duchaine of Design Dwellings Inc. received approval for a new garage at her corporate headquarters at 166 Narragansett St. The board approved the project 4-1 (Melinda Shain opposed, Rachel Sunnell absent, and new member Lee Pratt recused).

When asked following the vote when she wanted to start construction, Duchaine said with a laugh, “Tomorrow.”

• The University of Southern Maine, after submitting updated plans, got the green light to renovate its softball field on the Gorham campus. The project includes constructing a 350-seat grandstand, press box, concession building and new dugouts.

• Casco Federal Credit Union, which is seeking permission to construct a new building and drive-through at 393 Ossipee Trail, will have to return next month for final approval. The board asked for updated plans. The credit union branch is now at 397 Ossipee Trail.

• Shaw Brothers Construction Inc., headquarted at 341 Mosher Road, wants to expand and planners heard details about the company’s plans from co-owner Danny Shaw. The company is asking to expand its operation to other undeveloped lots it owns adjacent to its headquarters site.

“Basically, we have run out of room,” said Shaw,

Shaw said there are three rental houses now on the lots, which are zoned industrial.

Sebago Brewing is headquartered here in the Gorham Industrial Park. Staff photos by Robert LowellSusan Duchaine of Design Dwellings Inc., on left, and  Narragansett Street abutter Eileen Kalikow review Duchaine’s plans for a new garage that Gorham planners approved Monday. In the background is the project’s engineer?,? Andrew Morrell of BH2M.