Teams are working on the southwest corner of Troy Road and Governors’ Parkway on the Downtown Orchard assignment this spring.
Meijer asked to move forward with his site plan for the Orchard centre at Glen Carbon, a structure and progression assembly on Tuesday.
The Michigan-based supermarket chain has stepped up to upgrade Menards as the project’s flagship after the hardware chain terminated its acquisition agreement with the town earlier this month.
The committee approved the measure, 3-0. La town’s director of structure and development, Stacy Jose, on vacation.
“Menards was unable to close the assets with the existing developer, the Staenberg Group,” said village manager Jamie Bowden. “The developer proceeded to move Meijer forward. “
In addition to moving wood, garden furniture, lawn and garden, and oven filters to the grocery store, Meijer requested a 24-hour operation, which lately offers no other grocery store in the village or surrounding townships. about 160,000 square feet, nearly 50,000 less than Menards at 209,000 square feet.
In addition to asking to stay open all the time, Meijer will ask for more parking spaces, as well as licenses or rentals for the sale of alcohol, pharmacy service in the car, exhibition/sale, a pickup program with 8 parking spaces and a lawn center. Bowden said Meijer plans to upload a convenience store and fuel station to the site, but that’s not yet definitive.
Mike Flickinger, who is part of Meijer’s real estate, presented the committee with a preview and review of the company at Tuesday’s meeting.
Meijers plans to sell general merchandise, lawn and lawn supplies, food and alcoholic beverages, and a pharmacy in the new store and rent an average of about 250 workers in 3 shifts. The store would consist of 60% groceries and 40% retail items.
Flickinger said a pillar of the company gives back to their communities. He said at least six percent of his annual earnings are donated to charities. The company has internal spouse systems that are charged to this donation in return.
Sustainability is another pillar of the company. He said Meijer has been identified by its fleet of blank diesel fuel vehicles, carbon emissions reduction and cooling program. At the company’s pharmacy, he said there were loose prenatals and loose antibiotics.
The workshop requested 541 parking spaces, 8 more than necessary, 20 spaces available under the ADA, also 8 more than necessary, plus two motorcycle parking lots. Three derogations are requested: one for 3 monumental signs, one of which is off-site; one for the global domain of the sign; and one for 32. 5-foot-tall parking street lamps. Meijer notes that the construction’s h8 would be between 18 and 36 feet versus the forty-five-foot h8 requested by Menards.
Flickinger and Tim Lowe, Staenberg’s vice president of leasing and development, said it takes 12 months to build and open a Meijer, but it’s too early at this point to communicate a big opening date.
Some Menards changes would possibly come with two connections to the nearby Madison County Transit Goshen Trail, as opposed to a single Menards connection, as well as a common area, adding bike racks, internal sidewalk connections, and tables for hikers and bikers. The smaller footprint presented through Meijer and more green space make that possible, Lowe said.
Lowe, Bowden and others in the party hallway are aware of the arrival of more tenants than Chick-fil-A. The names of potential tenants were mentioned at the meeting.
“I think we’re going to have a very qualitative variety of restaurants and users outside the plot on this project,” Lowe said. “Meijer is helping with that. Meijer has advanced a bit in the game. Most of the other people need to be there because it’s on Troy Road and everyone needs to be on Troy Road, but I think the fact that Meijer is here has replaced the dynamic a bit.
“As we know, two have been announced. One is Chick-fil-A as the first candidate. We have a great mix of 3 or 4 quality restaurants to sit with maybe some other quick casuals, and then some fancy ones. “fast food. All the smart names, all the national brands and everything that is not in this market today. »
This plan has not been very well reviewed by the departments of structure and zoning or public works, as usual, as it is only a conceptual plan. All plans and documents are only reviewed very well after approval through structure and progression and official plans have been submitted through the developer. During this review process, the submitted plans would possibly not comply with all the village codes and possibly more requests for variation would be made.
The next steps in the procedure are for Meijer representatives and the developer to redo plans and zoning with an initial site plan with all variations. If the plans and zoning are approved, the entire council will vote on the final site plan later this summer. .