4 industrial park projects also get go-ahead

A plan to build a 145-unit senior apartment community in south Peachtree City has been resurrected.

Peachtree Park Village will be built at the intersection of Crosstown Road and Peachtree Parkway, just across from Regions Bank. The new plan has been tweaked somewhat compared to the last version of the plan that was approved in October 2002.

For starters, Almquist Hansen, LLC has deleted an entrance off Village Park Drive, though a small one will still be built for emergency vehicle access only, Norm Hansen told the Peachtree City Planning Commission Monday night.

Also, the service area including dumpsters has been relocated further away from existing homes in the Village Park subdivision, Hansen said. Hansen also plans to built a cart path along Crosstown Drive and Peachtree Parkway, extending across Village Park drive, in a bid to help keep pedestrians from cutting through Village Park, which has been a sore spot with residents there.

The company will also maintain the entrance to Village Park Drive because the first part of the road just off the parkway is actually on the retirement community’s 10.9-acre parcel, Hansen said.

The company is also willing to install a turn lane along Crosstown to assist traffic to the site, Hansen said.

Peachtree Park Village will focus on persons in the neighborhood of 75 years old who still want to live independently, Hansen said. The complex will provide transportation for residents, and there will be a basement parking area for those who wish to have golf carts to get around, he said.

“It will be a cross between a luxury apartment and a first class hotel,” Hansen said.

In addition to a cafeteria, the complex will also have staff on hand to assess potential emergencies before 911 is called, cutting down on the number of emergency calls compared to what the age group normally reports, Hansen said.

The facility does not offer assisted living nor any medical service of any type, Hansen added.

The company hopes to break ground on construction in the spring, Hansen said.

The commission approved the new concept plan unanimously.

The commission also reviewed the concept plan for the PetSmart store that will be located next to the Best Buy in the McIntosh Village shopping center off Ga. Highway 54 West. There is no need for extra parking spaces as the building will use parking already in place for Best Buy.

Commissioners asked the developer to work on softening up the entrance more with landscaping; that task will be handled later in the landscape plan for the site. The commission unanimously approved the PetSmart concept plan.

In other business, the planning commission approved concept plans for several ventures in the industrial park including:

• The Peachtree 74 business center, which will feature 33,000 square feet of office and warehouse space. The site is located on Ga. Highway 74 south across from the city’s baseball and soccer complex;

• The Southern Instruments office-warehouse, which will have a 21,000 square foot building at the corner of Dividend Drive and Dividend Court;

• A new building for Aventure Aviation, another office-warehouse project that will be built off International Drive. The building will be 15,000 square feet in size;

• A new building for Omni Consulting, an office project that will consist of a 14,000 square foot building off International Drive.

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