More development may be coming to busy Springfield shopping corridor
March 29, 2017
An amendment could remove hotel designation from the development plan.
More retail and restaurants could be coming to one of the last remaining undeveloped lots in Springfield’s busiest shopping corridor.
Powell, Ohio-based developer North Bechtle Square I Investments — which recently developed the area north of Walmart that includes a new Hobby Lobby, Dollar Tree and IHOP — has asked city commissioners to remove the hotel designation from a planned development at a vacant 4.9-acre property at the corner of St. Paris Connector and North Bechtle Avenue.
Bechtle Avenue has seen about $6.7 million in new developments over the past few years, including a $2.7 million Dick’s Sporting Goods store, which opened last fall.