Developer asks Pendergrass City Council to ease Townsquare commercial square‑footage requirement

Stegall (developer, representing T9/TDON Development) asked the Pendergrass City Council at its May 13 work session to relax the Townsquare development’s commercial square‑footage requirement, saying the city did not grow at the pace projected when the development agreement and resolution were adopted. "If the city isn't going to move forward with those development needs...we would ask that we could relax the amount of square footage that we build in Townsquare," Stegall told council members.

Stegall said the development’s original agreement called for a minimum of about 44,000 square feet of commercial space, with an eventual target as high as 100,000 square feet if rooftops increased. He said developers had actively marketed Townsquare for about 3½ years but could not find a commercial builder willing to take the full 44,000. "We have actively marketed for 3.5 years our town center and I cannot find that we cannot find a commercial builder to build it for 44,000 square feet," he said.

As an alternative, Stegall proposed allowing two street‑front pads to be built with a reduced…