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Kroger vote to come on Monday
By Chris Roark, croark@starlocalnews.com
The final hurdle Kroger needs to clear for a store expansion and a fuel center in Flower Mound comes Monday.
The Flower Mound Town Council is expected to vote on a request for a specific use permit (SUP) for a fueling station and a site plan for $14.3 million in store improvements at its location on FM 2499 and FM 1171.
Kroger’s Gary Huddleston has outlined the plans for the store improvement. Among the many features, should the plan get approved, are: a new natural foods department, a new bakery department, an expanded deli, a new cheese/olive island, an expanded fresh sushi department, a new upscale wine area, a new pharmacy with a drive through, a new express checkout area, wider aisles and more.
He also said the sales tax revenue the town will get should jump from $164,000 a year without the improvements to $332,000 a year with the improvements.
Huddleston also said the project would provide $542,000 in street improvements, as well as two electric car charging stations.
To help support the improvements, however, Huddleston said the fuel station is necessary.
The planning and zoning commission voted to recommend the SUP and the site plan last month, which came months after it had denied the request, citing concerns about traffic flow near the fuel station.
As a result, the town council needed a supermajority vote to approve the requests, which did not happen.
Following the town council election, in which Tom Hayden became mayor and two new council members were elected, Kroger executives brought the plan back to the table.
This time, the fuel station was moved back to address traffic flow concerns. Also, Kroger representatives agreed that fuel delivery would only take place during non-peak times.
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