A drive-through coffee shop, hair salon, men’s formal wear store and home-health care center are among the shops set to open next summer in a retail plaza planned for the site of the former Newick’s Seafood Restaurant in South Portland.

That was the message that T&T Development brought to city officials and residents last week at a special South Portland Planning Board meeting held at the 3-acre site off a busy section of Broadway, near the fire station.

T&T Development of Portland is scheduled to come before the planning board Tuesday for a formal site plan review. The meeting will be at 7 p.m. in South Portland City Hall.

Plans call for two one-story buildings and a parking lot on two acres. The buildings would be 7,000 square feet and 15,000 square feet.

Last week’s site walk at 740 Broadway was organized to let residents ask questions and learn firsthand about the project, city officials said. The site is now vacant, with the Newick’s building recently torn down and rubble cleared away. The restaurant closed in May after 31 years in business.

Speaking over the din of rush-hour traffic, developer Jim Talbot said four chains have signed leases to move into the plaza and he is negotiating with several others.

He identified the companies with leases as Maine-based Freaky Bean Coffee Shop, Tuxedos for Less, Supercuts and Gentiva Health Services, which delivers a variety of home-based services to clients across the U.S.

Talbot, who also is the site owner, handed out a list that identified companies T&T is negotiating with to open at the new plaza.

They are Sam’s Italian Restaurant, Walkabout shoe store, Kennel Shop pet supplies and Associated Media Services, a sound studio.

But Talbot’s presentation failed to impress several residents who live behind the site and on nearby residential streets off Broadway.

Rosemarie DeAngelis, who lives on Buttonwood Road, told the developer that the two-building plaza should be closer to Broadway, with the parking lot behind it. DeAngelis, a former city councilor, said the change would make the project more attractive and encourage people to walk and ride bicycles, rather than drive vehicles on Broadway, a congested thoroughfare.

“You’ll create more of a walking environment,” said DeAngelis. “People can take a cart and walk to the grocery store instead of jumping in their cars. I ride and walk as much as I can. You have the opportunity to set a precedent in this neighborhood.”

But Paulette Fenderson Erb of Bennett Street objected to that suggestion, because her home is behind the site. She said it would be too close to a parking lot that was situated in back of the buildings, instead of off Broadway.

“I live across the marsh,” she said, pointing to a wooded area bordering the site. “I already hear enough traffic. Putting the parking lot behind the buildings would only make things worse,” Fenderson Erb said.

Other residents raised questions about lighting, store hours, landscaping and whether vehicles exiting the drive-through coffee shop would impede traffic on Broadway. Michael Eastman questioned whether cars would be able to turn left onto Broadway from the site without creating a traffic jam.

Lynn Angell, who lives on Bennett Street, said she, too, was concerned about the traffic a drive-through coffee shop would create. She also urged the developer to leave existing trees on the site.

Part of the former Newick’s site had a packed dirt parking lot and several trees lined the rows where vehicles parked.

Shay Bellas, who sits on the South Portland Conservation Commission, asked the developer to consider adding a retention pond near the parking lot to ensure that water runoff would not pollute the marsh and nearby Anthoine Creek.

She suggested the developer add benches and a walkway near the marsh and creek. But other residents said they worried a walkway would encourage loitering and make the area unsafe.

“Our goal is to leave as many trees as possible to provide green space,” designer Tasha Hurtubise said later.

“If we were to install a retention pond, many of the trees would have to be cut down – thus defeating our goal,” said Hurtubise, who works with T&T Development. Instead, she said, a so-called “downstream defender” has been designed to clean and filter the water overflow into Anthoine Creek. “This is a more environmental-friendly situation,” she said.

Tom Blake, president of the South Portland Land Trust, said the developer is meeting city ordinances and “doesn’t have to do anything more.”

But Blake said he had personally hoped the building plans would include more landscaping, better use of natural lighting and perhaps a common area to encourage people to walk outside.

At the Sept. 27 site walk, Blake asked Talbot to agree to meet again with neighbors before the planning board meeting. The developer said he would.

But Hurtubise said Monday that T&T Development had yet to hear from neighbors to schedule a meeting.

Blake said there does not seem to be momentum by neighbors for another meeting before the Tuesday site plan review.

Talbot noted his company’s strong track record building office and retail projects in Maine.

Hurtubise later described T&T Development as “strictly a southern Maine development company.” Talbot is a partner in T&T Development with his brother. The company has done several small office projects in South Portland and two retail projects in Westbrook.

T&T renovated the small shopping area where Freaky Bean and Full Court Press, a copy shop, operate on Main Street in Westbrook. The company also redeveloped the former Warren Furniture building, another Main Street location. Portland Pie Co. now runs a pizza business there.

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