The Leaf-Chronicle from Clarksville, Tennessee • 101

rue udiiunry is, i S80 The Usf-Chronlcle, ClsrksylUe, Tenn. Pag7H City GinGOG Booming' egroups- At Governor's Square idling by in Cleveland" he said The strip-shopping center approach is how First Union is now advertising the project, he said If it proves successful, stores that open to the sidewalk, rather than into the mall area, could be built along the front of Two Rivers, making the complex a "quasi-strip-mall," he said "We're marketing it that way," he added "That is one of the reasons that were getting local representation." He predicted that the mall's empty spaces will fill quickly if the anchor stores are filled Two Rivers MaU was built in 1969. It has 223,500 square feet of store space and was renovated in 1987, including new ceilings and floors, new interior and exterior lighting, new lighted mall logo signs and an updated color scheme. built When it is. it will join the other new restaurants and the older restaurants such as Taco Bell, Burger King, Wendy's, O'Charley's, Captain D's, Long John Silver, Bonanza, Shoney's, El Palacio and The Ban-, quet Table that have made the Two Rivers area a restaurant row.

x. The Applebee's restaurant is to be -built on a vacant lot next to the Mathews Mitsubishi auto dealership, which opened in 1989. The restaurant is planned by Nashville-based Applebee's fran-shlse holder Robert Akard, who said last year the Clarksvine Applebee's would open in February. That appears unlikely, with the location still vacant. Attempts to reach Akard to determine the future of the restaurant were unsuccessful The Two Rivers MaU and its out-parcels are home to 15 tenants, including a Walgreen drugstore, Book-land Books, Zale Jewelers, Baskin Robbins, Banquet Table Buffet and Bonanza restaurant Ben's Tire and Wheel, Country Cobbler, Cut-Ups Kids' Cuts, GNC health food store, Horner Rausch optical, Jo Anne's Fabrics, Karmelkorn, KEG keys and jewelry, and Merle Norman cosmetics.

Dominion Bank also operates a branch at Two Rivers. The mall has about as many empty spaces as tenants. "Over the past (0 days I have spoken with about 20 different managment and leasing firms out of Nashville to work on a leasing agreement whereby we get local said Nixon. The search is down to four firms, he said Local representation "would get wind of store Chains looking for local expansion possibilities earlier than the Cleveland office, Nixon said "We're hopeful that we win break something in 1990. We're not sitting With the addition of 11 rt nram and the construction of the Governor's Square Plaza, "business" has been booming" at Governor's Square man, said Frank Dascen-eo, general manager.

"It was real strong in Decern-ber, and believe it or not, our January business has been good." he sail Last year saw the arrival of a jewelry store, two sportswear stores, a one-hour optical store and gift shops. Dascenzo said the mall Is 92 percent occupied, and he's look- ing for 100 percent within the next two years. The $50 million mall has been open only three years. "We're right on track as far as projections go," he said. -r Outside the enclosed mall is the beginnings of Governor's Square Plaza.

"Phar-Mor is the first anchor in our plaza," he said "Well have one other anchor store opposite of Phar-Mor. In between the two stores, we could have as few as two other stores, or as many as 10." The plaza will cover 180,000 square feet and should be completed during 1990. Dascenzo said the Cafaro Co, mall developer, has talked with several stores about taking that second anchor spot, but added he wont guess when there will be a decision. Construction on a Western By BILL HOSES Of The Leaf-Chrwide Staff Two Rivers Mail, anchorless since a rival developer opened Governor's Square mall on the city's edge in 1980, may be "re-oriented" toward strip shopping center concept, a maU management company official said The mah owner win be seeking a grocery store to occupy one of the anchor spaces, most likely the empty foot anchor space that formerly housed Parks Bene, said Dan Nixon, vice president and director of shopping center development for Two Rivers owner First Union Management Corp, of Cleveland Ohio. Sears and Parks Belk abandoned Two Rivers Man in 1980-87, moving to larger stores at Governor's Square man.

r. Nixon said First Union Management is close to choosing a Nashville-area realty firm to handle local representation of Two Rivers Man. He also revealed that two national retailers looking at Clarksville in 1989 decided not to locate here. Nixon said First Union talked with Target a national discount depart-, ment store chain, but was unable to lure the retailer to Clarksvine. "Target has not done as well in Tennessee as they had hoped, so they are not interested in the Clarksville market right now," he said.

Target has stores in Nashville. Two Rivers, at the busy intersection of Riverside Drive, Second Street and U.S. 41A, was Clarks-ville's first modern enclosed shopping man. It is in the middle of an area that came alive in 1989 with a new auto dealership and several new restaurants. The Arby's and Subway chains opened restaurants in the area.

Local McDonald's franchise holder Mabel Larson built a larger McDonald's next to the old McDonald's, then replaced the old one with a parking lot Applebee's Neighborhood Bar Grill promised a Two Rivers-area store in 1989, but it has yet to be Longive your track We offer a full line of Shell lubricants dedicated to preserving the life of your truck. SUPER DUTY Grease for extended severe service in chassis and wheel bearings. Extreme-pressure, multigrade, multi-use SPIRAX HD Gear Oil. ROTELLA Oik for the requirements of light- and moderate-duty engines. And high-performance ROTELLA TQils for hard-driving gasoline and diescl engines.

Together or alone, they'll get you farther down Newly-Built Centers Fare Well In Area IflG (SGNtGiliGo ll 648-4771 367 6138 Hwy 79 It Needmore Rd. Auto store at Governor's Square, should be finished by early March, and a Chi Chi's restaurant will be operational by June. At the opposite end of the mail property from Phar-Mor, a Toys Us store opened last faQ. Once the plaza and restaurants are completed, Dascenzo's focus may turn back toward the man itself. "We'll probably add to the mall, but it wont be until at least 1991," he said, There are plans and provisions for a possible fifth department store.

In another development late in -1989, the man lost its movie thea- ter which was operated by Rand Theaters of Little Rock, Ark. The theater was closed last fall by an order of the Tennessee Department of Revenue after government officials said the thea-' ters owners had failed to make tax payments to the state. Shortly after the closing, Dascenzo said that man officials win search for another theater to locate in that space when the legal problems between the former tennat, Rand Theaters, and the state are settled. Governor's Square mall is operated by Cafaro Co. of Youngs-town, Ohio, but was constructed jointly by Cafaro Co.

and CBL Associates of Chattanooga. Cafaro also owns and is developing Governor's Square Plaza. a strip shopping center in the burgeoning St. Bethlehem retail area has not had Hutchens success. The Austin Square shopping center, planned for along U.S.

79 North at Dunlop Lane, remains unbuilt Red construction flags dot the vacant 60-acre field where the oot center is planned possibly to include three large stores and 10 to 12 smaller stores, according to Jim Johnson of Johnson Realty, West Lafayette, Ind, leasing representative for the development's owners, Tennessee Investment Properties. Johnson said his firm is continuing to seek retailers to become tenants in Austin Square. Next door to the empty field is the new St Bethlehem branch of Dominion Bank, which opened in mid-1989. Johnson said construction engineers were working on the project's final engineering. "We're moving forward to try to get something done in the next 90 days on moving dirt," Johnson said.

"We're working out contracts with tenants." Because contracts have not been signed, he wouldn't reveal what retailers were considering locating in the center The Austin Square name comes from the region's close association with Tennessee Gov, Austin Peay, a Clarksville native, he said. "We thought that it kind of falls in line with the Governor's man." Hampton Plaza, Cunningham Place and, maybe, Austin Square add to a list of plazas, places, squares, circles and centers where Clarksville-area residents can buy most any goods. '-V Older established centers with retail and office space include: The Mart Shopping Center, Dover Road at U.S. 41A North. Madison Shopping Circle, on Madison Street adjacent to the downtown Post Office.

Plaza Shopping Center, on Pageant Lane between Madison Street and Crossland Avenue. Madison Square, on Madison Street at Hilldale. Northgate Shopping Center, on VS. 41A North at Cunningham Lane. St Bethleham Plaza, on U.S.

79 Tradewinds South, on Madison Street Clarksvine Plaza, on Riverside Drive near Cumberland Drive. Richview. Center, on Richview Road at Madison Street The Griffin Center, Dover Road at the Triangle with U.S. 41A North. xs.

a 4 By BILL HOBBS Of The Leaf-Chronicle Staff Two Clarksville shopping centers were the first developments for a fast-growing South Carolina firm that now has 24 shopping centers built or under construction in six states, including in three other Tennessee cities. Cunningham Place, on Fori-Campbell Boulevard at Cunningham Lane, and Hampton Plaza, on U.S. 79 North across from Governor's 'Square man, were the first properties developed by Hutchens Co, Inc, of Aikens, S.C, said Tom Szabo, leasing representative, Cunningham Place is 99 percent Jeased, with just one space empty, Szabo said. "That venter has done very wen for us," he i Hamilton Plaza ta KB nercent leased, he said "We would like to find an electronics store, or a furniture store, or a hardware store, or an appliance store to go in there," he said "That would give us the diversity we need at that location." The Long John Silver's seafood Restaurant chain purchased the only out-parcel at Hampton Plaza that hasn't been built on, but has since decided not to put a restaurant there, Szabo said The parcel is up lor sale now, he said I Another seafood restaurant, Red Lobster, opened in Hampton Plaza Jn January. In 1989 near Cunningham Place, a Minit Lube was Installed on a parcel ear the McDonald's restaurant, utchens Co.

also sold the parcel on the corner at the Cunningham Lane traffic light, and the new owner is tentatively planning a video store and a carry-out pizza shop, Szabo said'' "There has been some interest in the back parcel close to Wal-Mart, powever it is still available," Szabo said Hutchens Co. has grown from the two Clarksville developments to 24 in just three years. "The company has come a long way in a short period" he said This month, a Hutchens development in Ashland City celebrated the grand opening of a Food Lion gro-: fery. The company operates in McMinnvUle and Knoxville and is 'J' A 1 111. rooKing arouna uie ixasnviue juea, tie said The company also operates centers in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

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