VBT Planners give final OK to building for Starbucks, Qdoba

Leases have been signed for the Starbucks and Qdoba Mexican Restaurant businesses that will be in the new building going up on the 1.98-acre site of the former Big Boy restaurant.
This was confirmed by Stephen Alexander, the developer of the Belleview Development project. He said he is still talking with businesses that may occupy the middle section of the building.
He said for while they thought it would be PureSleep. Now he said he is talking to T-Mobile and Domino’s. He said he wants to keep it down to four tenants.
So far, Starbucks will be at the north end of the building and Qdoba at the south end.
At the May 27 regular meeting of the Van Buren Township Planning Commission the commission voted unanimously to give final site plan approval to the project at 10705 Belleville Road.
Alexander said to the commission, “We had hoped to have two access points. We lobbied and then we agreed with you… We agreed with the township on the brick it wanted.”
He referred to what he said was Starbuck’s requirement to have the lane from its drive-in window go right out into Belleville Road, in addition to the lane already accessing Belleville Road. The township was firm that only one curb cut should be in that busy intersection. Also, the commission required real brick on the new building.
The former Big Boy has already been demolished.
In other business at the May 27 meeting, the commission:
• Approved the rezoning from C-1 to R-1B of 3.4 acres of vacant property on the north side of Tyler Road, across from Meijer, and to send it on to the township board for final action. The property was the first conditional rezoning for the township in July 2007 and there was an oversight by the board. The developer of a proposed medical center did not go forward and the zoning was supposed to revert to the original zoning and didn’t. It currently is zoned C-1 between two R-1B properties. Commission chairwoman Carol Thompson thanked the resident (Andrew Pavlosky) who alerted the township to the problem. The rezoning recommendation now goes to the township board for final action;
• Held a public hearing on Angry Tiger Fireworks request to sell fireworks at the Metro Parks Party Store parking lot for longer than the seven days that can be approved administratively. He will put up a 10’x10’ tent, with customers being served at the counter, not inside. The commission will vote on the request at an upcoming meeting;
• Held a public hearing on the Tim Donut U.S. Limited Inc. request to move the drive-in window on the Tim Horton’s restaurant on Rawsonville Road and to realign the drive-up lane farther to the east to free up the delivery area at the building. A vote will be taken on the request at an upcoming meeting.