Fayetteville will lose its Kmart by early fall.

In a press release from the discount chain's corporate office in Michigan, officials said 66 stores around the country would be closed. The Fayetteville store at 240 Banks Crossing, along with a store in Stone Mountain, are the only two in metro Atlanta being shut down. Company officials said the stores were marginally profitable, but not profitable enough to justify the capital investment needed to expand them.

Local Kmart management referred all calls to the corporate office, which did not return calls by press time.

The Fayetteville Planning and Zoning Commission voted Tuesday night to table developer Bob Rolader's for the proposed Deer annexation and rezoning request Pointe developmentHighway 54 and Lester on the western end of the city, off Ga. and Huiet roads. Rolader wants 873 acres annexed into Fayetteville, with 454 homes proposed and 43 percent open space. He has offered to donate two lakes to the city for water and a 215-acre parcel for permanent open space. The city will continue to study the proposal in the coming weeks.

Plans for a Hooters restaurant in Fayetteville are on hold indefinitely. The development plan for the proposed restaurant on Ga. Highway 314 at Banks Road was tabled with almost no discussion, in response to a prior written request from Hooters management, due to conflicts with the overall development of the Fayetteville Retail Center, a JDN Development Corp. project that includes the Applebee's restaurant and Eckerd drug store next to the proposed Hooters site.

According to city staff, required improvements to Banks Road have not been completed and the city does not yet have a signed development agreement concerning the overall site.

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