Cold Spring Planning and Zoning approved a Chick-fil-A restaurant with a drive-thru at the Cold Spring Pointe development.
Cold Spring Pointe is a mixed-use development across from the city’s Meijer Shopping Center. Businesses such as Publix (and Publix Liquor store) and Five Below have already begun construction at the site and are well into it. Also already approved for the development are Wawa, Chase Bank, Hobby Lobby and Marshalls.
The planning commission unanimously approved the restaurant at a meeting on Jan. 14.
The Chick-fil-A site has a double frontage along US27 and Magnolia Lane. Access is internal to the Cold Spring Pointe complex. The project area totals 1.49 acres. The restaurant will be roughly 5,000 square feet with 70 interior seats and 16 exterior seats.
Sarah Kramer with Woolpert, the project’s civil engineer, said the Chick-fil-A is aiming for a fall opening date. She said they hope to start construction in the spring and that it will take six to eight months to complete.
“I will tell you their building plans are already in the queue,” said Campbell County Planning and Zoning Director Cindy Minter. “They’ve chosen to do an overlap with the building plans and the zoning at the same time. So, they’ve done that with the intention of accelerating the process, so they can start in the Spring.”
Kramer said that Chick-fil-A has its own internal design to ensure stacking within the site around the double drive-thru lanes, so traffic does not bleed into any other businesses on the site.
“The [traffic] cycle you’re familiar with is probably either in Florence or in Newport,” Minter said. “The Newport site was retroactively changed to a double lane. This is kind of a very different design, where the parking lot is actually on one side of the building, and then the traffic pattern goes around. Chick-fil-A changed that design to basically be better at providing safe pedestrian crossing.”