Construction: Santa Rosa rejects Lowe’s, Vallejo OKs one;
Posted By Jeff Quackenbush, Business Journal Staff Reporter On September 14, 2009 @ 2:15 am In Construction, Industry News | No Comments
Meanwhile, on July 21 the Vallejo Planning Division approved a proposed Lowe’s store on the site of a former Mazda and Hyundai dealership in the auto row near Interstate 80. Lowe’s switched plans from building a store in the Napa Junction development in neighboring American Canyon in 2006.
No comments were submitted in the 60-day period, according to Vallejo senior economic development analyst Annette Taylor.
An environmental-impact report had been conducted for the area previously, so only a mitigated negative declaration of environmental impacts was required and zoning was consistent with the use, so the planning division could approve the application.
A deal between the Mooresville, N.C.-based retailer and Vallejo property owner Ken Ross of Team Superstores was pending at press time.
Other retailers are active in Vallejo, despite the city’s being in bankruptcy protection, according to Ms. Taylor.
Automotive parts retailer AutoZone just inked a 15-year ground lease for a little more than a half-acre of land at 3020 Sonoma Blvd. The Memphis-based retailer has been looking to relocate its Vallejo store from 730 Admiral Callaghan Lane to a new prototypical building at this site for a few years, and now the company has applied for building permits for a 7,800-square-foot store. The retailer has eight other North Bay stores. Jon Stansbury of Terranomics represented AutoZone in the lease with owner Joe Khayat.
Also Bed Bath & Beyond is occupying a shuttered Linens n’ Things store in Gateway Plaza.
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