Collierville’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen has approved a conditional-use permit allowing Standard Construction to relocate its hot-mix asphalt operations to a 35-acre site in the southeastern part of town, clearing a major hurdle for a project that has stirred months of resident opposition over air quality, noise and truck traffic.
The approved site sits southeast of Progress Road and Keough Road, according to the citizenportal.ai coverage of the planning process. If built, the facility would occupy the easternmost portion of Collierville, directly across the street from Collierville Public Works, as reported by Action News 5. A Collierville town-news item put the parcel at 35.154 acres, while other accounts have rounded the figure to 35 acres — a discrepancy that has not been resolved in available town records.
Standard Construction currently runs its Collierville operations out of an existing site on Frank Road, where the company conducts gravel mining and aggregate washing, according to the Daily Memphian. The company says it plans to close that Frank Road facility once the Progress Road relocation is complete, and it does not intend to bring either gravel mining or aggregate washing to the new site.
A Consultant’s Case for Less Noise and Pollution
John McCarty, owner of McCarty Granberry Engineering and a consultant guiding Standard Construction through Collierville’s review process, told the Daily Memphian that dropping gravel mining and aggregate washing from the new site’s operations should help limit pollution and noise compared to the company’s current Frank Road footprint. That assessment has not stopped neighbors from raising alarms about what remains: a hot-mix asphalt plant itself…