Atlanta-based Thrive Senior Living is planning to expand its retirement community off Furys Ferry Road in Martinez, and have submitted a plan revision request to Columbia County Planning to accommodate it.
In 2015, the Board of Commissioners rezoned a 40-acre parcel on Indigo Hall Drive to S-1 Special for the purpose of developing the senior retirement facility.
The county has since approved three major zoning revisions on the property. In 2017, the Charleston-based landowners at the time, under the company name 313 Furys Ferry Road LLC, successfully petitioned an update to the plan that included a shift in uses and the addition of a medical office.
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In 2021, the county approved a request by current owner DREP Indigo Hall Augusta LLC, also based in Charleston, to eliminate lot lines on a portion of the land at 2200 Indigo Hall Drive to make way for senior cottages.
Most recently, in 2022, the county granted a request by Tennessee company Winterpast Capital Partners to allow changes to the density and building height of proposed senior apartments.
Amid these revisions, Thrive purchased one of the parcels and developed Thrive at Augusta on the property, opening in the summer of 2019. Earlier this month, Thrive requested to revise the zoning conditions for three tracts along the property—2200, 2000 and 2221 Indigo Hall Dr.—totaling some 10 acres.
Current zoning allows for a four-story, 180-unit building, independent living cottages and medical office on the subject parcels.
Thrive instead plans to build a three-story complex with 92 residential units, and “approximately” 63 one-, two- and three-story cottages.
The narrative document accompanying the revision application states that in 2021 “a potential buyer designed a project and contracted to purchase the land,” but dropped out of the contract “because of issues unrelated to zoning” early last year.
The Columbia County Planning Commission is scheduled to consider the request in its meeting on May 2.
Skyler Q. Andrews is a staff reporter for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com.
