The Parker’s Kitchen convenient store chain is looking to make good on its plan to develop some 10 locations throughout the CSRA.
The high-end gas station is the subject of two items are on the docket for the Augusta Planning Commission’s next meeting.
Savannah-based EMC Engineering Services sent a letter, on behalf of the store’s parent company Drayton-Parker, to Augusta’s planning and zoning department requesting to rezone 3054 Washington Rd. from Neighborhood Business (B-1) to General Business (B-2). An adjacent parcel is already zoned B-2.
According to EMC’s letter, Drayton-Parker plans to use both parcels, at the intersection of Washington Road and Tremont Way, as the location for one of its fuel stations. This would entail demolishing the “existing structure”—currently a Burger King—and building the convenience store and its parking.
Engineering firm Kimley-Horn sent a letter to the planning department requesting to rezone two undeveloped parcels, also from B-1 to B-2 to build one of the gas stations: 2311 Windsor Spring Rd. and the adjacent 3221 Richmond Hill Rd., totaling nearly five acres at the intersection of the two roads.
Both letters were sent to the planning department on Aug. 21.
Several new locations of the motorist stop are proposed or underway in Columbia County as well. The first Augusta location opened in June of this year.
The Augusta Planning Commission is scheduled to consider both rezoning requests during its meeting on Nov. 4.
Skyler Q. Andrews is a staff reporter covering business for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com.
