New restaurants and retail planned near Harris Teeter property along Fort Mill Parkway
More restaurants may be on the way in a busy, growing part of Fort Mill.
The owner and potential buyer of more than 5 acres at the eastern corner of Fort Mill Parkway and Holbrook Road applied to annex and rezone the property to put restaurants and retail there. Submitted plans show a more than 8,700-square-foot retail plaza, a 7,500-square-foot drive-thru restaurant and a 7,200-square-foot “high turnover,” sit-down restaurant.
The property is between Holbrook and Haire roads, off the town bypass. The current owner, who’s owned the property for decades, has more than 10 acres in two parcels that back up to a pond. The property is across from almost 45 acres of land Harris Teeter bought in 2015 for a new grocery store shopping center.
Traffic study offers details
A traffic study completed by the firm Kimley-Horn and Associates says the project would be built by 2028 with an entrance off Holbrook aligned with the Public Storage driveway. A Fort Mill Parkway access point would align with a future North Dobys Bridge commercial development.
The developer also would put in right and left turn lanes off the parkway plus turn and through lanes southbound on North Dobys Bridge. An 8-food shared use path along the parkway and Holbrook would be included, too.
A site plan included in the traffic study shows a slightly different layout for the more than 23,000 square feet of commercial space. It shows two buildings as fast food restaurants with dual drive-thrus — one at 5,000 and the other at 2,500 square feet. The strip shopping center there is broken into two buildings that each list retail and a restaurant — at about 16,000 combined square feet.
The traffic study also shows new business across the parkway. Three single-story commercial buildings are shown with one entrance off North Dobys Bridge and the other aligned with the site up for consideration now.
The town planning commission voted 4-2 in favor of the Holbrook Road commercial site plan Tuesday night.
Annexation and rezoning requests go to the town planning commission for recommendation, but Fort Mill Town Council makes the final call. There’s a tentative Oct. 9 date for a public hearing and initial decision on the plan. Council would have to pass that reading and one more, at an undetermined date, to complete the annexation.
Other potential developments around Fort Mill Parkway
The study lists three major approved projects that aren’t started yet — and may or may not ultimately happen — but are allowed and could be completed by the 2028 buildout.
▪ The Harris Teeter shopping center, known as Catawba Ridge Market, is approved for a 74,000-square-foot grocery store, more than 41,000 square feet of retail, a 30,000-square-foot medical office, a gas station with 14 pumps, a more than 7,000-square-foot fast food restaurant and 92 townhomes.
▪ The Crossroads development in the North Dobys Bridge and Williams Road corridor is approved for a 50,000-square-foot supermarket, 48,000 square feet of office space, 14,000 square feet of retail, a bank, drive-thru restaurant, dental office and 460 senior homes or apartments.
▪ The North Dobys Bridge Road commercial project is approved for a 9,600-square-foot shopping center, two restaurants and a medical or dental office.
The traffic study also notes the Arden Mill project, which is more than halfway complete, and should be fully complete by 2028. Approved plans include 99 homes, 10,000 square feet of office, 4,000 square feet of retail, a restaurant, daycare and medical building.
Development along Fort Mill Parkway has been flurried since the town bypass from Spratt Street to Springfield Parkway opened in 2016. The stretch of Fort Mill Parkway from Spratt to Holbrook opened two years prior.
Five new schools have opened along or just off that bypass. New restaurants, retail, gas stations and more dot the area. There’s the massive Elizabeth neighborhood under development now with more than 1,300 homes and townhomes, plus apartments a large areas for commercial development.
These two businesses will be the latest additions beside Elizabeth property in Fort Mill
