All around Marion, people may have noticed some construction work happening. As part of this, the new T-Mobile building on U.S. 70 West is almost ready to open and the new Burger King next to ZIPS Car Wash is moving rapidly toward completion.
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What’s being built? Construction happening all around Marion
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Back in April, The McDowell News first reported about the new T-Mobile building planned for the vacant lot on U.S. 70 West next to the Verizon store and across the road from Big Lots and McDonald’s. Since then, the work to build this new structure has steadily take place and it is now nearing completion. Spencer Elliott, the city’s chief building and fire official, said just recently to The McDowell News that the new T-Mobile store is in the final stages of construction.
Back in May, The McDowell News first reported about the new Burger King building. It is now under construction on West Henderson Street next to the ZIPS Car Wash and the Ingle’s supermarket. When it is completed, the new structure will replace the existing Burger King located nearby and allow Ingle’s to improve and expand the parking lot. Spencer Elliott, the city’s chief building and fire official, said this new Burger King will feature the new design for the chain’s restaurants.
On the left side of Sugar Hill Road, two large professional office buildings are under construction. Great Smiles Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics is behind this project. It currently has seven pediatric dentists and orthodontists who work at five locations in Asheville, Sylva and Waynesville. Marion will be the newest location and is scheduled to start seeing patients in March 2024.
Spencer Elliott, the city’s chief building official, said the two office buildings on Sugar Hill Road have been permitted and one of them will have a dentist office while the other will have an orthodontist office. Both of them will have secondary unfinished space for future development, he added.
This construction project on Rutherford Road, located across from K.G.’s Quikstop, will have mini storage buildings and related office space and is being built by Dan Fiore Construction.
Further south on Sugar Hill Road, heavy equipment operators are busy moving dirt at the empty lot next to Dunkin’ Donuts. Spencer Elliott, the city’s chief building official, said it is too soon to say what will happen there. He has not yet issued any permits for construction at that location.
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