What could the next 200 acres of Rock Hill bring? Restaurants, retail and more
The next 200 acres of Rock Hill could bring restaurants, retail and industrial growth. Some in busier areas of the city, and others in prime growth territory along I-77.
The city planning commission will meet Wednesday. That group will review several zoning requests that come with property owners looking to annex sites into the city. The planning commission makes a recommendation on annexation, but ultimately the decision falls to Rock Hill City Council.
Landover One, a company affiliated with Warren Norman Company, wants to rezone almost 8 acres on India Hook Road and Sharonwood Lane from commercial and residential use to combined commercial. The site touches both India Hook and Celanese Road, behind CVS. New plans there include office, retail and commercial construction.
Five former home lots and three unaddressed land parcels would become five buildings at a combined 30,500 square feet of space. Sharonwood, entirely within the development, would transition from a public to private street.
A submitted sketch plan for the project lists a 2,900-square-foot building facing Celanese as a restaurant with a patio. The largest building is a 15,000-square-foot construction facing India Hook, with almost half of it listed as restaurant space and the remainder for retail or office use.
On either side of that large building along India Hook is another building marked restaurant, one at 3,000 and the other at 2,000 square feet. A fifth building, internal to the project, is as 7,400 square feet of retail or office space.
Several other properties could join the city as part of prior utility service agreements that mandate annexation when properties become eligible. They include:
▪ Almost 43 acres at 3623 Lazy Hawk Road would join the city as part of a cold storage facility construction. Property for the project sold almost a year ago. Then in January, York County finalized road and other plans related to the larger 179-acre planned development on Lazy Hawk that includes the Karis Cold Storage Development site. It envisioned a 256,000-square-foot cold storage warehouse and nearly 106,000-square-foot light industrial building to open by next year.
The site up for a decision in Rock Hill fronts Lazy Hawk, which parallels I-77 near the Mt. Holly Road exit.
Another item involving almost 44 acres beside that site, west of 3623 Lazy Hawk, was part of Tuesday’s agenda but will be deferred to the planning commission’s May meeting. The same is true for almost 93 acres on Lazy Hawk and Caterpillar Drive.
▪ PFJ Southeast would bring in more than 40 acres at 2435 Mt. Holly Road, just off the I-77 northbound on ramp at the Mt. Holly exit. The truck stop, restaurant, convenience store and truck parking there now would remain, with no new development planned.
A separate piece of almost 6 acres at 2454 Mt. Holly Road is up for the same decision.
▪ About 5 acres at 2311 Ablewood Road would be annexed to allow a utility easement for future city annexations. The family farm property has I-77 frontage, but there aren’t current redevelopment plans submitted for the site.
Not all city projects involve annexation. Several involve changes to existing city property, including:
▪ A rezoning at Tech Park would allow a development along Northpark Drive. A developer can’t put a flex industrial building there now. Property involved with the potential rezoning spans more than 30 acres and includes 11 parcels, four of them developed. The site is north of Dave Lyle Boulevard, east of Quantz Street and south of a rail line.
▪ The Baker-Farrow subdivision between Farrow Drive and McConnells Highway would put five lots on almost 15 acres. The plan is up for plat review, which the planning commission handles without further decision from city council.
▪ Camp Flight Academy applied to rezone more than an acre at 803 S. Spruce Street to allow for a child daycare. Church of God Prophecy owns an existing building there that would be used for the daycare.
