Following a large, popular and successful Ingles Supermarket, other businesses are now looking to develop along the five-lane Boyleston Highway in Mills River.
The Mills River Planning Board has received a request from Twelve Oaks LLC for a special use permit to develop a medical institutional care facility at 183 Old Turnpike Road. The property also faces Boyleston Highway. This will not be a de-tox center, and clients of the facility will be those dealing with mental health and behavioral issues that have led to substance abuse. Town sources in Mills Rive say the 10 thousand square foot house already on the property would be used to house up to 15 patients.
Another business is proposing to develop 20.4 acres of farmland along Highway 280, across from and a bit south west of Ingles. Owned by the Moore family, that property is currently zoned for neighborhood commercial use and a change to a general business zoning classification would be needed by the proposed developer. The Town Zoning Board says there are a number of factors that make such development of that property a good idea…including its proximity to general business to the south, the large Ingles development to its north, and a five-lane thoroughfare that carries about 20,000 cars per day.
Mills River’s town Council will be considering all this at its December 10th meeting.
Another new business…a uniform rental business…has also broken ground along Boyleston Highway and Turnpike Road.
And Mills River Fire and Rescue plans to construct an all new department headquarters and main station on nearby property within the next five years.
