Mark and Chrissy Pierson don’t want to spend retirement watching television. They are very active and want to keep it that way, the couple said in an interview June 25 at the harvest house at Clark’s Point Homes, the development he co-owns with Scott Lalumiere.

For the development’s open house that afternoon, Chrissy Pierson prepared a table of fixings for visitors to make their own sundaes. She just retired from 27 years teaching kindergarten at Durham Community School. Her husband has been working as long in research and development at Idexx Laboratories in Westbrook. He plans to retire next spring. Clark’s Point Homes will be their retirement jobs, he said.

On June 26, planning board members took turns signing the updated plans they approved in May. In November 2016, the board approved four lots’ development on the approximately 200-acre subdvision. This spring’s OK was for four single-family homes. A decade-old, approved plan under the prior owners had called for a condominium with four units and another with three.

“Our marketing showed that the cluster houses weren’t in demand. I’m sorry, but this is Maine” and those were not what people were looking for, Pierson said at the open house. “It’s possible that we’re going to do some mixed, we don’t know yet. We’ll let the market drive this game.”

In recent months, interest in the development has been tremendous, he said.

He also spoke about the progress on building two model homes amid changing weather conditions. “At the end of February, there was no snow on the ground and we said, ‘All right – we’re going to start to go, here.’ And then March came in and crushed us, just crushed us,” he added, laughing. “So it took longer than it should have, but we’re starting to pick up steam.”

Selectman Katharine Martin-Savage visited one of the model homes and the harvest house with daughter Stephanie Hergenroeder. Martin-Savage knew the development already from the subdivision’s start a decade ago and wanted to welcome the new owners.

She is friends with longtime homeowners at the subdivision, Dan and Zoe Bigley and has taken part in gatherings at the harvest house. From the pond to the tennis courts, the subdivision had a good start and is looking beautiful under its new owners, Martin-Savage said June 30. “I’m pleased, and I wish them well,” she said.