WESTBROOK – The building that was once home to a short-lived Westbrook strip club is part of a new proposal designed to develop a large parcel of industrial property off Warren Avenue.

A copy of the proposal, submitted to the city last month, indicates the property’s owner, Selden Von Herten, wants to turn his 20.5-acre parcel into a commercial and industrial condominium site.

The proposal describes the site, named Fairlaine 500 Industrial Drive Commercial Condominium, as having 13 units “and associated common areas.” The proposal also promises “improved stormwater management facilities and landscaping throughout the site.”

City officials said the proposal is somewhat unusual. Instead of taking an empty piece of property, dividing it and then seeking tenants, Von Herten’s proposal will, in addition to creating new empty unit lots, draw lot lines around businesses that are already on the property. There are already eight buildings on the property, including the warehouse building at 84 Warren Ave., which was the home of Dreamers Cabaret. The club opened for a day in September 2010 before the city shut it down.

For more than a year, the club and its owner, Larry Ferrante, battled with the city, both in and out of court, for the right to reopen until Von Herten sued in November 2011 to prematurely terminate the club’s lease. At the time, Von Herten said, the club, which remained closed, had suffered from various problems for months, including a lack of functioning alarms or sprinkler systems after the utilities were turned off. Von Herten said the last straw was the club’s insurance lapsing.

By early December, Dreamers had moved out of the building completely. About a month later, the club lost its legal battle with the city in court, and there has been no indication that Ferrante intends to fight the ruling.

After the club closed, Von Herten said he hoped to rent out the property to another business, preferably not a strip club.

The new proposal, according to City Administrator Jerre Bryant, involves creating some new lots for sale or rent, but also allows existing businesses on the property to have lots of their own.

“You’re basically subdividing a partially developed site,” Bryant said.

The proposal would, if approved, create four new, undeveloped units. One of those units is already spoken for, by Hissong Ready Mix & Aggregates, a company based in Eliot and Kennebunk that produces concrete, gravel, sand, and other construction products.

In order for Von Herten to proceed, the proposal first needs approval from the Planning Board. Bryant said the project will come before the board sometime in February. Bryant said he did not anticipate any major objections from the city, calling the proposal “obviously a development project that we strongly endorse.”

But the unusual nature of the proposal means some details will need to be ironed out first, Bryant said.

“It’s not super-super challenging, but there are some unique things that we’re not used to dealing with,” he said.

Von Herten declined comment this week until after the project gets Planning Board approval. Von Herten has hired Westbrook-based St. Germain Collins to produce the proposal, but no one from that company was available for comment.