Planners to review shopping center for 54 West

Thu, 12/07/2006 - 4:35pm
By: John Munford

A plan to build a shopping center on the south side of Ga. Highway 54 West will be discussed Monday night in a workshop meeting of the Peachtree City Planning Commission.

The preliminary plan submitted to the city by Flexxon Operating calls for a series of seven retail buildings totaling 81,000 square feet just off the highway between Line Creek Drive and MacDuff Parkway. The Shoppes at the Village Piazza would be on either side of an undeveloped tract owned by the city that is also directly off the south side of the highway. Flexxon is proposing to build an access road across the city’s parcel to connect the two developments.

Some of the shops will be located on the property now occupied by the Days Inn. The largest building on the proposal is just under 23,000 square feet.

The developer has asked the city to consider a land swap for that parcel, but at a recent meeting a Flexxon representative urged the city that it intended to move forward quickly with its plans regardless of the result of the land swap proposal.

The plan shows two additional curb cuts off the highway beyond those existing for Line Creek Drive and MacDuff Parkway. One would be in-between Line Creek and MacDuff and the other would be further west than MacDuff.

Also on the commission’s agenda for the action item portion of the meeting is the landscape plan for the newly-annexed Starr’s Mill Professional Center on Ga. Highway 74 south. The commission also will consider plans for two businesses in the city’s industrial park.

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Submitted by ptcloyal on Fri, 12/08/2006 - 11:42am.

What about the undeveloped sites around town? Buckhead Brewery and behind! I didn't move here to live like I'm in Alpharetta! Where is the "home town feel" going to? City staff/folks can do better than this! This must be the reason many businesses are for sale or closed up on that side of town........"over development"!

So much "commercialization" and not finishing what has alread been started!

They need to re-focus and re-stratigize the development plan.

Submitted by dollaradayandfound on Fri, 12/08/2006 - 11:50am.

You see there is money to be made in developing buildings on valuable land. The cost of interest on a vacant building is less than the property value increases. Something like 7-8% value up, (or more)and maybe 5-6% interest.
Of course if you have the cash to build them, using your money on 4% interest, you can nearly double your income, 7-8%, with an empty building. Depreciation also helps with the profit.

Submitted by iisahotmomma on Fri, 12/08/2006 - 6:38am.

Stop, stop, stop! Make all this building stop! ENOUGH!

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