The Township 5 center is beginning to fill out after the Camillus Town Planning Board’s approval of site plans for five additional buildings destined for restaurants and shops.
Site plan approval is first step developers must take before work can begin on a project.
The new buildings are part of the $58 million project by the Cameron Group located off Route 5. It will have 600,000 square feet of space for stores, restaurants, a theater-bowling complex, and a 96-unit apartment complex. Work on the complex’s most anticipated retailer, the first Costco in the region, is slated to begin in May.
Some of the buildings already contain tenants, but plans for the largest, a 21,634 square-foot building, shows five sections for tenants that are yet to be named.
In addition to the large building, the board last week approved an 11,500 square-foot building that will contain a Buffalo Wild Wings, a GNC and an additional unnamed tenant.
Plans were also approved for an 11,039 square-foot building that will contain a Red Robin restaurant, Metro Mattress, Sally Beauty Supply and Mystique Nail Spa.
The Papaya Asian Kitchen and Bar is heading to a 9,107 square-foot building that also includes a Gertrude Hawks candy store and a Subway sandwich shop.
The smallest building approved is 7,250 square feet. It will contain Chat Wireless, Hair Studio One, Hoopla! frozen yogurt and Mesa Grande Taqueria. Previously, Long Horn Steakhouse had building plans approved by the Planning Board and their construction will coincide with the other four structures.
These five buildings are for the “retail and restaurant” phase of Township 5. Overall, the general effect of the buildings will incorporate a village environment. Proposed plans for each of these buildings also call for the architectural elements to be extended around the entirety of the buildings as these buildings will be visible from all angles. Also, in each building there will be multiple store fronts and the proposed plan calls for landscaping in any common area for each of the buildings.