FAYETTEVILLE -- A local pharmaceutical company wants to expand. Another microbrewery is on tap. And a rezoning has been requested in an area that's seen several recent student housing projects.
Fayetteville planning commissioners are scheduled to review those items Monday as well as an access-related issue on North College Avenue where a Whole Foods Market could be built.
Meeting Information
Fayetteville Planning Commission
When: 5:30 p.m. Monday
Where: Room 219, City Administration Building, 113 W. Mountain St.
The pharmaceutical company, Bio-Tech Pharmacal, has manufactured dietary supplements southwest of Van Asche Drive and Garland Avenue -- also called Arkansas 112 -- for more than 20 years. According to Mark Leason, facility manager, the company is expanding from a 7,500-square-foot building to a 30,000-square-foot research, development and manufacturing space.
"We've run out of room," Leason said Thursday.
Jason Corral of Fayetteville last month submitted zoning and development plans for a microbrewery at 701 W. North St. The 3,000-square-foot building, just west of the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad tracks and just east of the Scull Creek trail crossing, used to be part of the old Ranco lumberyard.
Corral wants to brew beer in two-thirds of the building and have a taproom and bar in the remaining space, according to correspondence with city planners.
His company would be called Columbus House Brewery, according to an application filed earlier this month with the state's Alcoholic Beverage Control Division.
Corral declined to comment on plans Thursday.
A company called Beechwood Properties of Arkansas has asked to rezone nearly 10 acres on the west side of Beechwood Avenue south of the University House -- formerly called The Domain -- apartments. About half of the land, north of Ayrshire Electronics, is undeveloped. The other half features a parking lot.
The new zoning would allow for a range of commercial and residential uses, including offices, restaurants and more apartments.
The 654-bedroom University House apartments opened last summer. The first phase of a 1,100-bedroom complex called Idyll Village is slated to open on the east side of Beechwood Avenue in August 2015.
According to Washington County property records, Beechwood Properties, registered to Brian Porter of Louisville, Ky., bought the land from Ayrshire Electronics for $1.5 million in 2006.
Also on Monday, commissioners will review a request from a company called S.J. Collins Enterprises to have two driveways separated by less than 250 feet at 3535 N. College Ave., where a car lot has stood for years.
The Georgia-based company, which builds Whole Foods stores, has proposed aligning one of the driveways with Masonic Drive and installing a full traffic signal. The signal would be just more than 500 feet from stoplights to the north at Millsap Road. A Whole Foods spokeswoman earlier this week said the Austin, Texas-based company has no immediate plans for a Fayetteville location, despite preliminary drawings that clearly depict a Whole Foods supermarket.
NW News on 04/11/2014