A developer is looking to bring a new neighborhood to south Augusta.
CG Sibley Mill LLC, the partnership comprised of real estate developers Crossgate Partners and Cape Augusta, has requested a rezoning to bring its redevelopment of the historic property of its namesake underway.
A concept plan and a letter of intent by DDG Development LLC submitted to Augusta’s planning department disclose a proposed residential subdivision along five tracts, totaling approximately 62 acres, including 2355 and 2421 Windsor Spring Road.
The plan shows a proposed 234 home lots: 115 townhomes, some 24-feet wide, and 119 detached single-family units, with a minimum 50-foot width. The subdivision will have two entries—a primary entrance from Windsor Spring Road at its signalized intersection with Rosier Road, with new turn lanes, and additional access via an extension of Lucie Street. The letter acknowledges that a traffic study would be needed to determine adjustments to the signal timing and the intersection.
DDG intends to subdivide one of the tracts nearest the intersection, currently zoned General Business (B-2), into two separate tracts. One of them, referred to in the letter and plans as “Tract A,” would be combined with 4.5 acres of the three remaining tracts, totaling some 59 acres, and that smaller portion of land would be rezoned to One-family Residential (R-1A).
The second subdivided tract, called “Tract B,” would also be combined with other portions of the land, totaling 3.51 acres, and would maintain its B-2 zoning. According to the letter, the applicant intends to sell this portion of the property to Dollar General for development.
CG Sibley Mill has petitioned, on behalf of the Canal Authority, to rezone some 13 acres of the Sibley Mill property—1705, 1717 and 1721 Goodrich Street—from Light Industrial (LI) to B-2. The company’s concept plan shows more than 200 one, two and three-bedroom apartments across five buildings, more than 45,000 square feet of office space across three buildings, a brew pub in the northeast part of the property near Riverwatch Parkway and some 1,000 square feet of “general commercial” space.
The request comes nearly two months after the Canal Authority entered a contract with CG Sibley Mill to sell the property, which itself came after months of litigation between the Authority and Cape Augusta.
Both items are on the agenda for the Augusta Planning Commission’s meeting on Nov. 4.
Skyler Q. Andrews is a staff reporter covering business for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com.
