Wal-green Space

Walgreen Co. plans to build a 14,560-SF drug store at 3939 Shiloh Drive in Fayetteville, where Nelson Funeral Home is currently located, but the nation’s largest pharmacy company may have to share its signage along busy College Avenue with other businesses.

Walgreens, which is scheduled to go before the Fayetteville Planning Commission on Nov. 14, asked the city about putting up a 124-SF pole sign, but the folks at a subdivision committee of the Planning Commission thought a 75-SF monument sign might be more appropriate.

“A six-foot-high monument sign does not allow the customers to see, and we are a convenience store. We are not a destination store,” Tom Gamsjaeger of Whiteco Interra Ventures LLC in Chicago, told the committee at an Oct. 3 meeting. Gamsjaeger is the Walgreen’s representative for the project.

In addition to the monument sign, the commission recommended that Walgreens share a “joint identification” sign on College Avenue with other businesses.

We’re wondering if Hooter’s will be in on that.