A second developer has stepped forward with a plan to redevelop the former National Grid site in North Warren. The Warren Town Council is expected to discuss his plan, and another proposed last year by Brady Sullivan, developers of the Tourister property, next Tuesday evening.

Giovanni Cicione, a Barrington attorney who helped develop Trafford Restaurant on Water Street, submitted his unsolicited proposal on February 14. In it, he proposes developing a small pub or restaurant in the brick “gas house” on the town-owned waterfront site, and perhaps building a small micro-brewery and office space in an as-yet unbuilt structure that would sit on an old concrete foundation there.

The development would be privately funded at a cost of $1.7 million, “although if I have learned anything over the years it is that those estimates can quickly escalate,” he wrote in his unsolicited proposal to the town. In return for a 50-year lease with a purchase option after “perhaps” 10 years, he suggested a monthly rent to the town of $1,000 ($12,000 per year).

His plan is similar to one submitted last December by New Hampshire-based developers Brady Sullivan, though Warren Town Planner Bob Rulli wrote in a note to the council last week that the Brady Sullivan plan offers the town more flexibility over parking and design issues.

Brady Sullivan’s plan is to lease the property for 99 years, compensating the town at $6,035 per year. In return, the firm would self-fund and restore the entire 1.38-acre property. Included would be the restoration of the gas house for use by a future commercial tenant. Like Mr. Cicione’s plan, a new building, also for future use by a commercial tenant, would be built on the concrete foundation; and a parking plan that connects the site to the existing mill parking lot would create “an efficient site circulation pattern and connection to Main Street … in order to create a site that feels and functions as one.”

Both plans would include expanding the walking path behind the Tourister site to the north, and providing public access and amenities as required by the town.

Though Mr. Rulli noted that both plans offer “modest lease payments (to the town) given the amount of private funds required to develop the site,” he wrote that it is too early to negotiate lease terms. He suggested that the next step would be to enter into a Memorandom of Understanding (MOI) with the town’s preferred partner.

“This would keep the project moving forward while providing the developer and the Town with agreed upon conditions and timelines leading to a long-term lease arrangement and a potential purchase option,” he wrote in his memo to the council.

The Town of Warren purchased the former National Grid property last year for $450,000.