RETIREMENT COMMUNITY PLANNED NEXT TO BELLE HALL

By Molly Parker , Staff Writer, Daily Journal

A Georgia developer is asking the town of Mount Pleasant for permission to build a new retirement community off Seacoast Parkway that would include 25 duplexes and a 200,000-square-foot complex with apartments.

Church Design & Construction, based in Snellville, Ga., is poised to purchase a parcel totaling nearly 46 acres west of the Belle Hall subdivision and parallel to Interstate 526.

The development would occupy about 33 acres of what is now woodlands with the continuing-care retirement community building standing as the focal point.The structure would include 120 independent-living apartments and up to 60 assisted-living and/or skilled-nursing beds, according to documents filed with the town’s planning department.

The planning commission will consider the proposal at its next meeting at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 19. The developer could not be reached for comment.

The 25 duplex cottages planned for the community “are situated to instill a sense of neighborhood at the entrance to the project and also provide a residential edge adjacent to the existing Grassy Creek subdivision,” the document states.

The Grassy Creek subdivision would be a next-door neighbor to the development and separated by a 25-foot buffer. The remaining 13 acres of the site under the plan would be dedicated to office and retail uses associated with the retirement community.