The Henderson City-County Planning Commission unanimously approved the rezoning of two City of Henderson-owned parcels behind the Walmart shopping center to highway commercial at its Tuesday evening meeting.
City officials are planning to develop the parcels, totaling 34 acres, and hope to attract retail, restaurants and hotels there at a location that is highly visible from I-69 which passes to the south of it. They have said they will probably at some point sell the land to a developer who will then find the businesses to locate there.
There are numerous pieces to the overall vision of the development effort in that area, and Mayor Brad Staton spoke about several at the meeting, including a new entrance/exit road that would connect U.S. 41 to the parcels and what officials are terming the “Loop Road,” which is planned to connect the development with U.S. 60 at Wathen Lane in a looped fashion with much of the road paralleling I-69…