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Liquor is retail and if done right can be really nice. If done wrong, can be really bad. Based on plans I've seen, this will be done right. A very expensive attractive building. Plus, they appear to be developing a shopping center, not just a stand alone store. Further, Tontitown is a tiny town with limited budget for a big planning staff. Unless someone wanted to pro bono a bunch of planning work, it will likely develop as is for the foreseeable future.

There will be some bleed from Fayetteville, no doubt. Don't see too much pull from Rogers. Survival of the fittest...

It will be a liquor store. Not the Phillips family

Appears to be the same group that has a restaurant in Hot Springs. As you said, this is very similar to Grubs. Good luck to them...

Still think it goes on the fairgrounds...

Assuming you are talking about 56th street, and it is going to be improved at Don Tyson to include a roundabout, hence the stop sign currently.

Industrial warehouse bldg

NWA Business Journal just posted via twitter that a Walmart Neighborhood Market was announced at Don Tyson Interchange with I-49, to open fall of 2015

My understanding of the developer is that he has a SIGNIFICANT net worth and experience developing very successful multiuse properties. This has a real chance.

the land adjacent to the Pilot was purchased by the franchisee for Popeye's Chicken. Assume that is what is under construction. The Valero was purchased by an investor group. Appears they are trying to sell or develop for profit.

Planet Fitness next to Rubbermaid...

The site that Collier purchased isn't large enough to do anything box wise and still get parking he wants. Expect ground floor restaurants and boutiques, if he does anything. Paying nearly $50 per sf for dirt is going to make it very difficult to do anything that isn't 5-6 stories tall and with the step backs we now have, the developer is really squeezed on the site. You need mass on the ground floor to compensate for the loss of square footage going vertical. If he wants self contained parking, it further diminishes the rentable area. This one is going to take some creativity, flexibility from city and Sharkey, some time, and some serious $$$ Of course, all this is assuming that he cares about a return on investment and not just in adding parking to the area to support the drug store. Seems like a huge price to pay for that though.

The land in question does not abut the interstate and is the easternmost portion of the Marinoni farm. A separate property owner owns the frontage. I think the cottage development is about the only thing that can pay the price wanted for the property and add the density that will bring the commercial uses to the area. There isn't enough big box/theater/shops/restaurants to fill a development covering the entire site so there will have to be some RMF component for the property to be appropriately developed.

So they get a nice $2,000,000 gravel parking lot next to their house. Good for them.

The fairgrounds is the most logical. It will not be next to the neighborhood market.

Behind the former Met Bank Building and west of the new Kimberly Clark building

That is going away and folding into the overall site plan. True...

MedExpress

My sources say it isn't Specialized...

It is another shopping center

Not enough parking... Likely...

Because of the price expected by the family for the land, retail was out of the question. There may eventually be retail on the SWC of the intersection with I-540, particularly if this development proceeds, due to added density and improved traffic breaks on Wedington.

Retail typically follows population by a year or two. Takes time for the density and traffic studies to set in. There has been early growth along MLK with Starbucks, Panda, Whataburger and Dunkin.

To each their own. I'm glad to see longtime vacant land fill in with new development.

Tazikis isn't supposed to be traditional greek. Heck, they even spell Tazikis (tzatziki) incorrectly. It is simply a take on Greek cooking concepts and flavors. Given the amount of food they sell, I'd say they are doing ok. Azul isn't great, but it is another option expanding our trade area. My point wasn't to start a restaurant review forum, but to show that new growth is almost always something to be happy about as opposed to the OP's "meh" attitude towards the development.