Rezoning Hearing For Highway Property Is July 2
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Jim Nabors shared plans with aldermen during the May 7 city meeting for a proposed hardware store and lumber yard that he plans to build on the Hwy. 7 Bypass. The proposed store, Nabors Home Center, will be 30,000 square feet.
– Photo by David Howell
WATER VALLEY – A public hearing on a request to rezone 5.35 acres of highway frontage on Hwy 7 from R-1 (single family residential) to highway commercial is scheduled Tuesday, July 2.
Jim Nabors told city officials the rezoning is the final step before construction can start on a 30,000 square-foot Nabors Home Center can start.
“I have purchased the Treloar property from the Treloar Family Estate,” Nabors told aldermen during the monthly city meeting on May 7. “I have cleared the land and I am ready to build. We are going to build a 10,000 square foot hardware store with a 20,000 square foot drive-thru lumber yard. Based on my other stores, we would be around 12 to 15 employees in the new store,” Nabors told city officials.
Nabors also told aldermen that he will operate the Nabors Home Center starting June 10 in the Valley Lumber Building at 608 North Main Street, adding that the purchase of the store will close on June 6.
He will operate at the Main Street location while the new store is constructed. After the move, Nabors told aldermen that he will either sell or lease the Main Street Building.
The rezoning request has already been approved by the Water Valley Planning Commission, the first step of the process that culminates with public input before aldermen make the final decision.
Nabors also shared renderings of the proposed new store during last week’s city meeting.
“You will have it in a great location, customers will be able to get in and out easily,” District 2 Alderman Freddie Folson noted about the location.
“I will ask you to really consider the rezoning of it. I can’t move forward until that is rezoned,” Nabors told aldermen as the meeting ended.
The proposed Water Valley store will mark the fifth Nabors Home Center store in north Mississippi. Jim Nabors and his wife, Millette Nabors, currently operate stores in Amory, Houston, Ackerman and Eupora.
