The city's Planning Commission has approved development plans for a Ruby Tuesday restaurant on nine tenths acre at the southeast corner of Uptown Square.

Uptown is the Barnes & Noble shopping center under construction at Ga. Highway 85 and Pine Trail Road, across from Fayette Pavilion shopping center.

Fayetteville's dining options are about to increase again.

The restaurant will serve an eclectic menu of meats, seafood, vegetables and salads.

A company official said the restaurant chain hopes to start construction as soon as engineers can produce working drawings and a building permit can be obtained.

Plans are to have the restaurant open by the end of this year.

The Planning Commission also approved a revised site plan for Fayette Community Hospital, allowing the hospital to build a parking lot instead of a new wing as original development plans called for.

Right now, parking is a bigger problem than bed space, said hospital director Darrell Cutts.

— Dave Hamrick

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