Nearly all the reaction Vincent Thibeault has read and heard about his and wife Sally Thibeault’s plans for an entertainment complex has been positive.

“It’s very promising,” he said May 13 about public response to the news that the couple wants to put a complex with bowling and other activities on a 40-acre, Gardiner Road, Wiscasset site.

An exception to the early excitement has been the reaction from Anthony Vitti, owner of a property that abuts the land the Thibeaults have a purchase-and-sale agreement on. Vitti opposes preliminary plans for the complex’s driveway to run near his home.

Vitti said he plans to fight it, possibly by raising environmental issues, he said in interview on his land May 12; if the driveway goes there, he’ll sell his property, he said.

“I love it here, my fiancée loves it here. It’s away from everything,” he said. “I thought I would stay here for the rest of my life.”

Vitti bought his home about five years ago, fixed it up and rearranged his work schedule as a professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston so that he could live in Wiscasset. He figured if the land nearby was ever developed, it would be for a house, not a nearly 30,000 square-foot business drawing traffic down a driveway next to his property, he said.

If he had known something like that could go there, he would have bought the parcel to make sure it didn’t, Vitti said. In fact, when he read about the project on the Wiscasset Newspaper’s website, he contacted the real estate agent to try to buy the land, and was told he couldn’t because it was already under contract.

He had been about to put another $30,000 to $40,000 into his property to refinish the home’s logs, put on a new deck and do work on the driveway. After learning about the complex, he canceled those plans.

No one is more pro-business and pro-capitalism than he is, Vitti said. It would be good to have more jobs in town, he said. He would rather the complex go elsewhere in town or even on Gardiner Road, but it’s really the driveway and its traffic, not the complex, that he is taking issue with, he said.

Showing a reporter around his three-acre lot and its tall old evergreens near the property line, Vitti said he didn’t want to lose the enjoyment he and fiancée Pam Logan get from having the deer, owls and other birds, and other wildlife around the property. He said he was also concerned about the foot and motor vehicle traffic along the driveway to the complex.

He finds litter and larger junk dumped near his driveway on Gardiner Road. Having traffic on another side of his property would add to that problem and impact the quiet, wooded setting, he said.

“I’ll fight it. I’ll lawyer up if I have to.”

In a telephone interview May 13, Vincent Thibeault responded to Vitti’s concerns. Any development, whether a new house or a business of any kind, disturbs the wildlife, Thibeault said. “I’m not happy to displace any critters.” His family likes seeing wildlife, also, around their home on Indian Road, he said.

“You can’t not develop in the town, simply due to the wildlife concerns,” Thibeault said. Only about 13 acres of the 40 acres they are buying is usable, he added. “We’re not looking to clear-cut 40 acres.”

As for the driveway to the complex, Thibeault said a contractor will have to help determine its exact placement, but that he and his wife want to keep a buffer of trees on either side of it. ”Our goal is to have minimal impact on the neighbors,” he said.

Thibeault said he appreciates Vitti’s concerns, but that Gardiner Road, which is also Route 27, is one of Wiscasset’s few main roads and can be expected to attract businesses.

Thibeault cited what he called the project’s many positives for the town and the region. It will shorten the distance families have to travel for entertainment; add to the tax base and create jobs, he said.

In the wintertime, Thibeault expects the complex to employ about two dozen people, and in the summertime, about three dozen, he said. The projection does not include potential additional hires that could follow with the couple’s long-term plan to add outdoor entertainment options, Thibeault said.

Thibeault hopes to secure a loan through a Coastal Enterprise (CEI) program. He and his wife have held off on incorporating the business, V & S Factory, until they know whether a 50-50, his and her ownership, or some other percentage breakdown could best qualify their project for funding.

At this point, they hope to have their second meeting with the Wiscasset Planning Board at the board’s second meeting in June, Thibeault said.

Vitti plans to attend all future planning board meetings on the project.

“I’ll be there,” he said.