Two long-anticipated mixed-use rezoning requests are on the Spring Hill Planning Commission’s agenda for Monday night.
Discussion at the workshop session, which will determine the agenda at the voting session in two weeks, will cover plans for both the 775-acre Alexander property and the new-downtown district plans for the Tennessee Children’s Home.
Alexander Property
On Jan. 9, planners deferred voting on the rezoning of the Alexander property, requested by SoutheastVenture. The zoning is for a mixed-use live, work, play type development.
The proposed project, on property bounded by I-65, Buckner Road, Summit High School and Thompson’s Station Road, could remake the economy and landscape in northern Spring Hill by 2037, the last year of its build out.
Spring Hill defers vote on 775-acre mixed-use project along I-65
The planners said the project and its details needed more time to sink in and be looked over.
There are a number of road projects that the project if passed will need completed, and help pay for, over its 20-year horizon.
A breakdown of those projects can be found in this story:
Size of Alexander property project largely depends on I-65 interchange
Tennessee Children’s Home
Planners will also likely vote in two weeks on the long-discussed Tennessee Children’s Home property rezoning.
The developer, KSC Construction, has the 103-acre property under contract and has requested the land be rezoned to a Planned Zoning District, the same zoning requested by the Alexander property developer.
The Tennessee Children’s Home property, along U.S. 31, is the proposed site of a $250 million new mixed-use town center for the city of Spring Hill.
Plans, submitted by KCS Construction based in Columbia, include a new city hall and library, as well as approximately 320,000 square-feet of office, restaurant and retail space and up to 600 residential units to be built out over a period of 7 to 10 years.
Roughly 40 percent of the property would be maintained as city park space, including a public amphitheater around the existing lake with a focus on festivals, concerts and family activities.
The project has been in the offing for almost two years.
Originally, Insight Properties was going to broker the sale of the different parts of the project, but KCS came in and contracted to buy it all and find tenants, according to Children’s Home President Brian King.
Tennessee Children’s Home, with four locations in Tennessee, has plans to build new facilities nearby on Doc Robinson Road, according to King.
