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Today's News

  • EARLIER: Triple S Planning Commission: Horizon’s plan begins approval process

    The Triple S Planning Commission will hear its first arguments and possibly make a recommendation Tuesday on a plan to build an outlet mall in Simpsonville.

    The request for the 50-acre parcel comes from Horizon Group Properties, which first announced plans for The Outlet Shoppes of Louisville to be built just south of Interstate 64 at the intersection of Buck Creek and Veechdale roads last year, and it will be heard at the commission’s regular monthly meeting at Stratton Center in Shelbyville.

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  • EARLIER: Outlet mall questions get no answers

    Six people – including two speakers – who went to the Simpsonville City Commission’s meeting on Tuesday to get answers departed with little more information than they had when they arrived.

    Bill Brammell, who is on retainer for the city to sit in for vacationing City Attorney Hite Hays, basically ended the discussion before Barbara Shadley could ask her first question by explaining the ground rules for the session.

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  • EARLIER: Developers say Simpsonville ‘best’ site for mall

    About 100 concerned – and some short-tempered – residents piled into the newly renovated Simpsonville Community Gym on Monday evening to hear new details and ask pointed questions about the Outlet Shoppes of Louisville, the outlet mall Horizon Group Properties is planning to build in the city.

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  • EARLIER: First glimpse at outlet plans

    Officials of Horizon Group Properties, one of the groups planning to build an outlet mall in Simpsonville, are giving the public a peek at their plans.

    An informal meeting at 6 p.m. Monday in the Simpsonville city gym will give officials the opportunity to explain the company’s plans for the so-called Outlet Shoppes of Louisville and allow the public the opportunity to ask questions about those plans.

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  • EARLIER: Dueling outlet mall plans: 2nd outlet mall proposal pops up for Simpsonville

    The idea of an outlet mall just south of I-64 on Buck Creek Road in Simpsonville has raised a lot of questions and concerns. Now those questions could double.

    Trio Property Managing Partner Stuart Flowers said his group is under contract to sell about 83 acres south of I-64 and east of Buck Creek Road to Water Street Development, a company based in Columbus, Ohio, that has plans to build an outlet mall of between 340,000 and 500,000 square feet.

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  • EARLIER: Dueling outlet mall plans: Corps still ‘pretty far removed’ from any decision on outlet site

    As word emerged that Horizon Group Properties will have competition for an outlet mall in Simpsonville and the city’s commission moved to annex parcels adjacent to its proposed site, there has been no response from the Army Corps of Engineers about whether the project could move forward.

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  • EARLIER: Simpsonville Outlet Mall: Developers to review comments on mall plan

    The company proposing to build an outlet mall just south of Interstate 64 in Simpsonville will be given an opportunity by the Army Corps of Engineers to respond to letters of comment it received about the project.

    The Army Corps logged 45 letters of comment during the posted public notice for the 60-acre site, and Horizon Group Properties of Muskegon, Mich., may take until the end of July or longer to review them.

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  • EARLIER: Simpsonville Outlet Mall: Residents seek public hearing

    The Army Corps of Engineers 1-month open public notice for a 60-acre site just south of Interstate 64 in Simpsonville closed Thursday under a cloud of secrecy from officials and a batch of requests from residents in that area.

    The property, located at the intersection of Buck Creek and Veechdale roads at the end of Exit 28 off of Interstate 64, is the proposed site of a 9-building, 355,000 square foot outlet mall facility owned by Horizon Group Properties.

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  • EARLIER: Planned outlet mall starts approval bid

    Developers of a proposed outlet mall south of Interstate 64 in Simpsonville have requested permits with the Army Corps of Engineers to get their project moving.

    For more than a year now, Horizon Group Properties, a development company with offices in Chicago and Muskegon, Mich.,has been inquiring about and planning for a 60-acre parcel just west the BP station at Exit 28 off of I-64 and south of Buck Creek Road.

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  • Datebook: June 19, 2013

    This week
    Shelby County Fair
    The Shelby County Fair will continue through Saturday at the Shelby County Fairgrounds.
    Cambo the clown at library
    Cambo the Clown, a professional clown, will visit the Shelby County Public Library at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. today. He will have magic tricks, juggling, laughing and balloon animals. For more information, contact 633-3803.
    Turtle power at park

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