10 New Spring Hill Restaurants

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9. Chick-fil-A

Status: Proposed

In December, Spring Hill Mayor Rick Graham announced that the developer of the Old Silo property on Main Street had presented Chick-fil-A with a letter of intent to locate a restaurant there.

The property is near the intersection of Main Street and Wilkes Lane.

The letter has not yet been signed, and both parties have gone quiet since Graham broke the news.

“It is yet to be signed, and should be signed soon,” Graham said. ” I have dealt with a lot of these in my time, and it is the real deal.”

The city has been lobbying for a Spring Hill location for some time. They even made a video to prod the Georgia-based company to open a Spring Hill location.

The developer of the property, Realty Link, began working on plans in the fall for a 20,400-square foot space with retail and three drive-thru type-restaurants.

“That project had been in the works for a while, and it was just much too many drive thrus, too much traffic, it was just way too much for that property,” Graham said. “So Kayce Williams had them re-draw and re-look at it and got them to entertain the possibility of Chick-fil-A. They were pretty insistent about coming to north Spring Hill. Outside of traffic, the thing I hear the most from citizens was about getting a Chick-Fil-A.”

The project that will ultimately develop is more likely to have two drive-thrus.

Hank Cannon, speaking for the developer in the fall, said the silo would remain intact. That may not be a practical possibility with the new development, its future remains to be seen.

“The drawing I looked at yesterday still has the silo on it,” Graham said. “But I want people to understand this: the silo has been there a long, long time and it is something that is respected by all of us, but — but — safety has to come first.”

Chick-fil-A has a location in Columbia, three in Franklin, one in Brentwood and six in Nashville.