The Algood Planning Commission is studying the site plan for a new restaurant off West Main Street near Highway 111.
City Administrator Keith Morrison said the restaurant remains an unknown, but the property developer works with different national retailers. Morrison said the plan is to combine two adjacent lots and construct one building that will be split between two companies.
“It’ll be kind of a chain, national chain that would be looking there,” Morrison said. “It’ll be a little strip mall-type area with two divisions for two different national retailers. They do this all over the country, buying properties and leasing them out.”
Morrison said the planning commission is also studying the site plan for a new amphitheater at Hope Church. Morrison said the retail facility and amphitheater site plans should both be considered and voted on during the planning commission’s February meeting.
Morrison said that expansion will benefit the church’s outreach efforts while also providing new opportunities for the city.
“Hope Church will be a great outreach for the community, it will offer up some additional things we can do, maybe some programs in conjunction with the church, and they’ll do some things,” Morrison said.
Morrison said the retail development will aid the city by bringing in more sales tax revenue and other businesses.
“These are decisions of private developers that are coming to us and offering things that they would like to do,” Morrison said. “Which happens a lot, so it’s not necessarily anything we’ve done, it’s just that we’ve had these groups reach out and offer these proposals and they have to go to the planning commission for approval.”