HERE WE GO!
New fast-food restaurant, other businesses coming on N. Charles G. Seivers
This plot at 2218 N. Charles G. Seivers Blvd. will be the site of a new shopping center that will house four businesses, including a fast-food restaurant, according to the developers. (photo:G. Chambers Williams III )
The first development will be called the Clinton Shopping Center, at 2218 N. Seivers between Wendy’s and the site of the soon-to-be new Sonic Drive-In restaurant. The site is less than a mile from Interstate 75, Exit 122.
Four businesses will locate there in a 7,000-square-foot building that will include a fast-food restaurant with a drive-through window on one end, and three other spaces that have been leased to retail and service businesses, according to Peter Medlyn of Oliver Smith Realty in Clinton.
“It will be a mixture of businesses,” Medlyn said. “We can’t announce yet who the tenants are, but it’s all leased. We had some potential tenants who were looking, so we purchased the property. It’s a great market over there.”
The 1.2-acre site was owned until recently by LKM Properties, the land holding company for Weigel’s convenience stores. Clinton City Manager Roger Houck said that Weigel’s had plans earlier to put a second Clinton store on that site, but gave up on the idea when the Tennessee Department of Transportation declined Weigel’s’ request for a cut through the median on Seivers Boulevard so traffic could access the store from both sides of the highway.
Developer for the new project is John Davenport of Davenport Construction Co. in Jellico, Medlyn said.
No plans have yet been submitted for approval by the Clinton Planning Commission, but Medlyn said the developers are looking at presenting the proposed project during the September meeting of the commission.
Besides the building, the center will have 81 parking spaces, according to the listing of the project on the website oliversmithrealty.com.
Construction is expected to begin in the fall, with completion scheduled for next spring, Medlyn said.
About a half-mile west on Seivers, another retail development is planned.
Although it has not yet been approved by the Planning Commission, the developers of that site have already submitted preliminary plans to the city.
Those plans show a 24,200-square-foot building surrounded by 91 parking spaces, on a 2.78-acre site between People’s Bank and the former location of Anderson County’s Glen Alpine Convenience Center (waste-collection) site.
No further information was immediately available about who would be developing the site or who the tenant might be. Anderson County property records show the property is owned by I-75 Industrial Group-Series 3, LLC., with a LaFollette address.
Other new developments are either under construction or planned for that area of North Seivers Boulevard.
The Courier News previously reported that a DQ Grill & Chill restaurant is planned for the vacant lot between Walgreens and the Hollingsworth Center/Junior Achievement building. That project still has not been presented to the Planning Commission for final approval.
Additionally, a new Starbucks coffee shop and wine/liquor package store will locate in a building already under construction just west of the center that houses Buddy’s bar-b-q, Farm Bureau and a Tennova Primary Care clinic.
And the new Sonic, which has already been announced, will be built on a lot just east of Buddy’s. Plans for that project have not been submitted to the city yet, and no building permit has been issued.