This article originally appeared in the Arizona Republic.
Two vacant sites near a Laveen golf course redevelopment project are planned to become restaurants, stores and a gas station.
Glasir Capital Partners, the company that is redeveloping the former Southern Ridge Golf Club at 59th and Southern avenues, applied to rezone two sites, totaling about 7 acres, on the northern corners of the golf course site.
The smaller site, on 59th and Southern, is planned for a gas station, convenience store and about 2,800 square feet of retail buildings, according to documents submitted to Phoenix. Missouri gas station brand Break Time has signed on to the development. It would be the chain’s first location in Arizona, said Adam Baugh, the zoning attorney representing the project.
The larger site, on 55th and Southern, contains two, 10,000-square-foot retail buildings and one 3,000-square-foot restaurant building.
Baugh said the sites were not part of the former golf course project. They had been among three sites that were separated from the course in 2011, designated for commercial development. The third site is on the southern side of the golf course, near 59th Avenue and Baseline Road.