By Graham Sweeney
The town’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen will consider rezoning a 10.3-acre parcel near Baptist Memorial Hospital to “medical professional office.”
The property is currently zoned for “estate residential” and is located on the north side of Poplar Ave., east of Shea Road.
Board members will discuss the rezoning on Monday night during their regularly scheduled meeting. The Planning Commission has already recommended approval.
If approved, Baptist Hospital would contribute the land to National HealthCare Corporation (NHC), which is based in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
NHC plans to develop the land into a 92-unit senior care facility with 60 beds, 30 memory care beds and 18 behavioral health facility beds.
Donquetta Singleton, project planner, said that there is already a Collierville retirement residence directly to the east of the property.
The town is also home to the Langford of Collierville and the Farms at Bailey Station.
In related news:
• Board members will vote to approve the $298,416 purchase of a Model 600 Tymco Street Sweeper.
• The Board will vote to approve the purchase of a new
Rovver X camera system and trailer from Sansom Equipment Company in the amount of $178,783.78.
• The town will accept more than $13,000 in donations for the Lucius E. and Elsie C. Burch Library.
• Board members will decide whether to approve a preliminary site plan for People First Urgent Care & Tenant Space (Car Wash USA Express Subdivision, Lot 3), subject to the conditions. The agenda item was referred by the Planning Commission. The property is located at the northeast corner of W. Poplar Ave. and Fletcher Road.
