Smyrna Commons is not dead

I decided to make a few calls and do actual research for a story. All because of the over riding question of what the heck has happened to Smyrna Commons, and should we start using the phrase "Lake Smyrna" for what seems the only thing there now. Maybe one day we can have shallow water fishing contests with bass boats and a regatta to end the weekend.

What I found out is that it seems Smyrna Commons the shopping mall(technically The Shoppes at Smyrna Commons) is just 31 acres of the whole 80 plus acre area. This will be the "principle retail component" of the whole 'Smyrna Commons'. Smyrna Commons as this image from their website shows is just part of the whole.



Other sections such as a 1 plus acres contracted by Cherry and Associates will be a strip mall set near to Wal-Mart and there is also a contract already with a Taco Bell for another of the sites.

Norman Krone of Ballast Point Group in Florida who is the one doing "The Shoppes at Smyrna Commons" was here just 2 1/2 weeks ago meeting with Major Spivey about the future of project. He said the plans as they currently stand are for a fall opening in 2009 if all goes well.

Thus Smyrna Commons is not dead or even on life support. There are plans being made for the major component, strip malls, and food joints. All is well even if it does look like a future federally protected wetland.