NORWICH – Mum’s the word where Stephen E. Stark, the one-time resort and event center developer, is concerned. Though he continues to pay taxes on about 500 acres in the Town of Norwich that he acquired between 2003-2006 for the planned Alteren resort, the Rochester-area businessman said he didn’t want to reveal his future plans for the land.

“I don’t want to say anything at this point,” he said Wednesday.

In fact, the final word from Stark came last June when he conceded that the threat of a proposed power line through his $62 million hillside dream would potentially devastate it. The Norwich High School graduate said at the time that his project was consuming 100 percent of his heart, but only 5 percent of his time.