A new retail space may be on the horizon for a corner in south Augusta.
Watson Properties has requested to rezone two tracts totaling about an acre on 1901 Olive Road and 2300 Milledgeville Road, at the southwest corner of the intersection of Olive and Milledgeville roads and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
The property management company aims to change the parcels from R-1A Residential and B-2 Business zoning to B-2 only.
Two structures are already on the Milledgeville Road property, decades-old fast food restaurant buildings over 600 square feet each. A letter of intent to the Augusta Planning Department, from Bo Slaughter of the James G. Swift & Associates engineering firm, states that Watson Properties plans to add a 3,200 square foot retail building and parking space.
AMERCO Real Estate Group and Augusta Hotel Group LLC are petitioning to rezone the site of a Best Western hotel, also from R-1A One-family residential to General Business.
The three-acre property at 1062 Claussen Road, like the aforementioned Milledgeville Road and Olive Road parcels, are currently zoned both residential and business. As there are no plans to alter use on the property, the accompanying letter of intent explains, the purpose of the request is to create “zoning uniformity.”
Another rezoning request, from One-family residential to Neighborhood Business, at 3306 Old McDuffie Road, was postponed from the Augusta Planning Commission’s August agenda to its meeting in September. Its applicants plan to build a 3,800-foot convenience store with four gas pumps to run seven days a week.
The property lies south of a parcel on Barton Chapel Road, on the other side of both Milledgeville Road and Gordon Highway, where gourmet convenience store chain Parker’s Kitchen plans to develop one of its Richmond County locations.
The above items are all scheduled for the Augusta Planning Commission’s next meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 6 at 3 p.m. in the municipal building.
Skyler Q. Andrews is a staff reporter for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com.
