In about a year, Peachtree City residents will have a 12-screen movie theater in their backyard, just across the county line in Coweta.

The Great Escape theater will be joined by a Sam’s Club that will also be open around the same time at Fischer’s Crossing, which will be about 1 million square feet ... just over two-thirds the size of the Fayette Pavilion.

Shopping center/movie theater at Fischer's Crossing under construction
The shopping center will be located at the corner of Ga. Highway 34 and Fischer Road, just across the highway from the Hot Spot gas station, said Scott Seymour of Fischer Crossings Development.

Also signed up for the development is CVS drugstore, and other tenants are being lined up, Seymour said. There’s over a half-mile of frontage along the highway, and although the stores will consist of national retail chains, there will be a “lifestyle” center in the middle of the property with restaurants and boutique shops, he added.

“All of the buildings will have an old feel to them,” Seymour said of the architectural plan for the center.

Work is scheduled to begin next week on part of Fischer Road, which will be lowered by about 10 feet. Homes previously on the site have already been demolished, Seymour said.