One Liquor Per Millennium
by February 17, 2003 12:00 am 76 views
It appears one liquor store is all that the northeast corner of Fayetteville will have after all.
Goshen Mayor Andy Bethell’s attempt to put a second liquor store near the Joyce Boulevard and Arkansas Highway 265 intersection, despite being originally approved by the Fayetteville City Council, is no longer a possibility.
Fayetteville Realtor/developer Kirk Elsass “got wind” that the land Bethell had in mind for the liquor store was actually still for sale by Littlefield Oil Co. of Fort Smith. Littlefield had given Bethell permission to take the liquor store plan before the city council.
When Elsass made Littlefield an offer for $404,000, Littlefield accepted and the two sides closed within two weeks.
That leaves 265 Liquor at the corner of Millennium Drive and Highway 265 as the only liquor store in the area. And Elsass said there will “absolutely not” be a liquor store going in on his new lot.
Elsass said he and partner John David Lindsey have plans to develop an office/retail center similar to Millennium Place on the 2-acre site, which is next to the fruit stand on the east side of Highway 265. And Elsass said he has a contract pending for the 1.75 acres that the fruit stand is on.