In case it has escaped you, a new retail expansion development due to open this spring has been going up on the south side of the Lowes Home Center. This development has a town center flavor and has a southern exposure to Rawson Avenue. Unlike most of the retail developments that we have seen on 27th street, you notice that there is four sided architecture with multi-architectural elements not seen on most so called strip malls. The available square footage of the Lowes Development is approximately 11 to 14 thousand square feet of retail space.
Lowes Development last Fall
Currently it looks like the only tenant for this development is the Topper’s restaurant franchise with a pizza type fare. Based out of Madison, they serve pizzas, sandwiches, quesadillas and buffalo wings.
With the recent criticism of Paul Bouraxis's Golden Corral Restaurant development, not much has been said by local development bloggers on this recent 27th Street corridor development.
As this corner will most likely be a busy gateway to the 27th street corridor with a round-about proposed for the corner of 27th and Rawson. I think this is a well though out addition to the corridor with a quality set of design plans and I am not Wagging the Dog.
Lowes Development opening Spring of 2008
