- April 23, 2024
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About 14 acres is now being cleared on West Granada Boulevard.
The pile of trees just east of Dustin’s Bar-B-Q on West Granada Boulevard should be the site of several restaurants and shops this time next year.
There will be a Chipotle Mexican Grill, Panera Bread with a drive through, Pie Five Pizza, Petco Animal Supplies, AT&T store, Mattress Firm and Aspen Dental.
The site is being cleared by The Ferber Group, of Ponte Vedra Beach, which purchased 14.5 acres for $1.4 million from a local investor group known as West Granada LLC. The company plans to construct a 31,240-square-foot retail center with three separate buildings.
For wetland conservation, 7.72 acres of the land is being kept in a natural state.
The buildings are 100% rented out, according to spokeswoman Teresa Grashof. Construction will start as soon as the land is cleared and the buildings will be turned over to the tenants next May or June.
“It will probably take the businesses a few months to finish out their properties and get ready to open,” she said.
Grashof explained the attraction of the location for retailers by saying there was a pull toward the west in Ormond Beach.
“That’s where you have the big box stores and I-95,” she said. “That’s where retailers want to be.’
There will a landscaped buffer between the new retail center and the neighborhood next door, Chelsea Place. Steve Spraker, senior planner for the city, said there will be neighborhood meetings with city staff and company representatives when the project is 50% completed and also when it is 90% completed to give residents a chance to review the project. There was a neighborhood meeting when the project was first planned.
The Ferber Group will manage the retail center after it opens. Grashof said the company has a long history of developing stand-alone properties, such as pharmacies, and for the past few years have built and managed multi-retail establishments.
“We’ve been a developer in Florida and New Jersey for many years,” she said.
The closing date of the land sale was Oct. 6. All of the tenants had signed on with a contingency that the sale would go through. The company also purchased 3.4 acres from Lowes.
