From 'za to z's: Sleep Number on Aiken's Whiskey Road moving forward
Jul. 21—What once was a Pizza Hut will soon become a Sleep Number mattress store.
Demolition began this week on the building located at 1905 Whiskey Road. Once demolished, a Sleep Number mattress store will be built in its place.
Sleep Number is a Minnesota-based company that sells beds under its own brand name as well as the Comfortaire brand. The company has manufacturing and distribution centers in Irmo and Utah. It has around 650 retail stores.
A construction timeline is unknown.
The Aiken City Council voted unanimously Dec. 12 to approve a request to rezone the property and to approve a concept plan calling for the mattress store to be constructed on the site.
Zachary Grogan of Greenville-based Magnolia Property Group made the request.
He asked for and the council rezoned the property from general business to planned commercial.
The concept plan calls for the demolition of the Pizza Hut building and its replacement by a one-story framed building that's around 18 feet, six inches tall and 70 feet long and 43 feet wide.
The plan also calls for the development of 23 parking spaces — the city's zoning ordinance mandates a minimum of 15 for 3,000-square-feet buildings — and the use of 49.6% of the land for open space.
Existing entrances from Whiskey Road and the Village at Whiskey shopping center would remain.
The Pizza Hut on the site closed in early 2021 after the franchisor, NPC International, declared bankruptcy in July 2020.
