More than five years after the family that owns The Varsity announced it would sell the property for redevelopment, and almost three years after the landmark restaurant closed, plans have been filed with Athens-Clarke County. And yes, the magnolias will be saved.
The plans call for two buildings-one at the corner of West Broad and Chase streets featuring a grocery store on the second floor with parking on the main level underneath, and a second on the Milledge Avenue side with retail and restaurant space on the ground floor and residential units above, wrapped around a second parking structure. Bruce Lonnee, assistant director of the ACC Planning Department, was quick to note that the plans include a protective fence around the 100-plus-year-old magnolia trees along Milledge Avenue.
Read MoreA new preliminary development plan for a wooded piece of property on Newberry Road less than a mile west of Interstate 75 has been submitted to Alachua County.
The Newberry Village Traditional Neighborhood Development has been proposed on the north side of Newberry Road directly east of Fort Clarke Boulevard and would have direct access to the Newberry Square shopping area via Northwest 76th Boulevard.
Read MoreA project that would bring apartments and a grocery store to an undeveloped area just north of Downtown Atlanta has inched closer to reality
Read MoreRumors are flying about major chains coming to the area south of Lexington and at least one of them is true.
Wawa, the convenience store station that’s so much more than gas, is planning on building a location at 3013 Lexington Rd. in Nicholasville, also known as U.S. 27. At an April 24 meeting, the planning commission approved plans for a Wawa convenience store at the corner of Lexington Road and Vince Road, near Catnip Hill Road and just down the road from the popular Brannon Crossing shopping center.
Read MoreLuxury apartments, a "lifestyle grocery," as well as buildings for restaurants and retail shops are beginning to sprout at One Riverside - an estimated $182 million mixed-use development on the Northbank of the St. Johns River in downtown Jacksonville.
Read MoreThe Downtown Investment Authority board is mulling a 1-year extension for CEO Lori Boyer and amending One Riverside's performance schedule.
Read MoreA mixed-use project in Old Fourth Ward has succeeded in scoring a tax incentive that one of metro Atlanta’s most controversial developers is calling make-or-break.
Read MoreA Fulton County agency will consider granting more than $5 million in tax breaks for a luxury residential and retail project near the Eastside Beltline trail, one of the hottest neighborhoods in the city
Read MoreThe Florida-based grocer is eyeing space at a mixed-use project planned by Fuqua Development and Northwood Ravin.
Read MoreKura Sushi USA Inc., a technology-enabled restaurant serving cuisine via a revolving sushi service model, opened this weekend at Exchange at Gwinnett, a nearly 70,000-square-foot grocery-anchored property, in Buford, Georgia. It marks the Peach State's second Kura and the brand's 46th location in the United States.
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