FAYETTEVILLE — After conducting public hearings, collecting written comments and holding work sessions in connection to the proposal for a grocery store at 547 E. Genesee St., the Fayetteville Planning Board decided Dec. 5 to grant site plan approval for the long-pending project.
The Northwood Real Estate application calls for the conversion of the manufacturing site vacated by O’Brien & Gere and previously occupied by Accurate Die Casting into an approximately 56,000-square-foot supermarket rumored to be a Hannaford. As the plans have indicated, the redevelopment project would entail the remediation of the hazardous brownfield left by Accurate Die Casting.
The new configuration of the property would feature employee parking on the north side, spaces reserved for employees of the nearby Creative Environment Day School, eight electric charging stations, and a bicycle rack with extended covering according to the project team.
Architect Alex Gerhardt of Onyx Creative said there would be vegetative plantings, most likely boxwood shrubs, directly in front of the store and that she will see if work can be done to make certain elements like the placement of the product pickup door and its canopy more symmetrical.
