Tropical Smoothie (the business name speaks for itself) and Jersey Mike's (a sub shop) are heading to Batavia, according to paperwork filed by Benderson Development with the Town of Batavia Planning Department.
The food chains will be part of the two buildings planned for the currently vacant former Kmart parking lot, Code Enforcement Officer Daniel Lang informed the Town of Batavia Planning Board on Tuesday night.
After the meeting, Lang said he couldn't confirm that Starbucks is also one of the planned chains for the new development. He said Benderson has yet to file any development plans that explicitly include Starbucks.
That's been the rumor, and a "coffee shop" is listed as the drive-thru occupant for one of the two planned buildings on the property, but Lang said in an interview after the meeting that he has nothing official to say that the coffee shop will be Starbucks.
Benderson is planning two buildings in the parking lot. Each will have a drive-thru and contain more than one business. Benderson has so far indicated that one building will contain the coffee shop, Tropical Smoothie, and Jersey Mike's, but no occupants have been submitted yet for any portion of the other building on the property.
"They have approval for two outbuildings in front of the Kmart," Lang said. "We only have the permitting right now, everything paperwork-wise for the building shell for the one building, and these are two of the uses going into that one building."
He told the board, "I don't have anything on the second one yet. Once I get it, I will advise you guys of what they are and we'll move forward."
There's no word yet on what might become of the hulk of the building that used to be Kmart on Lewiston Road.
