Just under three years since the Statesboro Publix opened in Eagles Corner Shopping Center, a proposal is moving forward for another major supermarket chain, Kroger, to have a big store and a fueling center built less than two miles to the west around the bypass.

Southeastern Property Acquisitions LLC, based in Augusta, applied to Statesboro’s city Planning and Development Department to have 28 acres in two adjoining tracts with the addresses 6850 Cypress Lake Road and 7406 Veterans Memorial Parkway, at the intersection, rezoned from R-3 residential to MX “mixed use.” The Statesboro Planning Commission voted 7-0, after a Nov. 4 hearing, to recommend conditional approval of the zoning change. City Council will take up the question Tuesday, Nov. 18, during its 5:30 p.m. meeting.

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