Wednesday night Marysville’s design review board approved a Hardee’s restaurant design similar to the one pictured above, which is located in Weaverville, North Carolina. The original design had a red motif, rather than the shown dark gray.
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Marysville residents will soon have a couple of new fast food options to explore, with Arby’s and Hardee’s both looking to come to town.
Hardee’s is looking to be the first business to move into the space in front of Kroger Marketplace on West Fifth Street.
Mike Grace, of Pavilion Development, presented the building to the Marysville Design Review Board Wednesday night. The restaurant will be at the main entrance into the Kroger development, across from the gas station. There is a large lot between the two entrances into the Kroger development.
Pavilion Development is in the process of purchasing the lot from Connolly Construction, which it will then divide into three parcels for three different businesses. Hardee’s will occupy the westernmost lot.
“We’re really excited to be coming to Marysville,” Grace said.
Some board members took issue to the initial building presented by Grace. Tim Schacht said the choice of colors on the structure was “all over the place.” He asked that the building match Kroger’s red brick.
“I think a little bit more of that brick feel in that area would be nice,” he said.
Board member Brett Garrett said the large star logos adorning the side of the building “don’t look that great.” Grace said removing them wouldn’t be a problem.
Later, Grace showed the board a Hardee’s restaurant in Weaverville, North Carolina, that replaced the original red motif with a darker gray.
The board eventually unanimously approved a building that looks more like the Weaverville location.
Board member Pete Griffin asked if the buildings along those three parcels will have some sort of visual theme, and “look like they should be there.”
Grace said his company intends to use “some common materials” between the projects, but the buildings won’t be identical.
“We’d like to have some commonality,” he said.
Earlier in the meeting, the board unanimously passed a site plan for a new Arby’s restaurant on East Fifth Street across from Tire Discounters.
Schacht expressed concern that the placement of the parking lot might be unsafe, since customers have to cross the drive-thru lane to go inside the store.
The store’s owner, Doug McGuire, said he’d come before the city’s zoning board earlier this year to ask for a variance to allow him to move the building farther back form the road. The variance, which was denied, would have allowed him to be more flexible with parking lot placement.
As it stands, the lot is too small to reconfigure.
The board also asked McGuire to consider installing an outdoor seating area, which he agreed to research.
Schacht said the patio would be a “really cool option.”
“You have a hotel that was just approved to the south,” he said. “We’re trying to get this outdoor walkability going, and that’s one of the reasons why the buildings are pushed to the street, to get that more pedestrian feel and slow traffic down.”