Developers of a proposed 5,000-square-foot convenience store at the main entrance to Doctors Hospital have put the project out to bid.
Contractors have until May 21 to submit proposals to help build a new Parker’s Kitchen at 3645 Wheeler Rd., where it intersects with Medical Center Drive.
The idea of putting the store at the busy intersection drew complaints from nearby residents in 2023. Sharon Kaminer presented the Augusta Commission with a petition bearing the signatures of more than 400 people who objected to the Parker’s at an intersection that already generates significant traffic from a McDonald’s restaurant and a Walgreens pharmacy.
The commission instead voted in September 2023 to rezone that address to a business classification that would allow Parker’s to build the convenience store after demolishing the current building on the site. The two-story bank with a five-lane drive-thru was built as a major Wachovia branch in 1994 and put up for sale in 2019.
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