- April 18, 2024
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Palm Coast is slated to get its fifth dollar store: a new Dollar General, on Old Kings Road at the north side of the Island Walk shopping center.
The 0.73-acre vacant parcel for which the 7,500-square foot store is planned "is one the last remaining undeveloped commercial parcels in the vicinity of this retail area," according to a city planning staff report.
There are already two Dollar Generals in town — one at 500 Palm Coast Parkway SW near the intersection with Corporate Drive, and one at 11 Market Avenue in Town Center — as well as two Dollar Tree stores, one at 140 Cypress Edge Drive in City Marketplace and another at 5200 E. Highway 10, Suite 101 in the Target shopping center. But this proposed Old Kings Road dollar store would be the first in town to be built east of Interstate 95.
The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Regulation Board at its Feb. 17 meeting approved a landscape buffer variance that Dollar General said it needs in order to build the new store at 20 Old Kings Road North. The variance reduces the area's general 35-foot landscape buffer to 20 feet for the site.
Local dentist Gregory Johnston, a member of the LLC that owns the property, told the Planning Board at a September meeting that the parcel has been for sale for eight years, but would-be buyers have repeatedly pulled out, citing Palm Coast's restrictive code and setback requirements.
At that time, Johnston and his attorney, Michael Chiumento, did not say what business was considering moving onto the parcel, because they had signed a nondisclosure agreement not to. But, Johnston told planning board members at the Sept. 16 meeting, "It's a national chain. ... It would be very beneficial for the residents on this side (of Interstate 95) to have this."
Dollar General has now submitted a tier one technical site plan for the location.
