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No Comments [ Add Comment ]North Ogden experiencing flurry of new retail stores
By Rachel J. TrotterNORTH OGD
EN -- More and more places to shop are starting to dot Washington Boulevard and its subsidiaries in North Ogden.
Groundbreaking will occur soon for the new Walgreens pharmacy on the corner of 2550 North and Washington Boulevard. The new strip mall behind the 7-Eleven on Washington Boulevard is now filled, with a hair salon, malt shop, exercise place and title company soon to be opening there.
"We have lots of irons in the fire but nothing finalized," said City Administrator Rich Nelson.
The city is working closely with developers in the Country Boy commercial development at about 1800 North and Washington on the west side. Officials also are working with the Paul and Julie Farr family with the rest of the land north of where Walgreen's will be.
That land still has to be annexed into the city. When it is, the city will help fund a traffic study that it hopes will allow for the Utah Department of Transportation to add more access points to the area. Right now there is not access to the property.
The city council has discussed buying a portion of Washington from the state so the city can add extra access, but that would be a last resort, Nelson said.
"Our preferred approach would be to work together," Nelson said of UDOT.
Each area of Washington Boulevard is slowly turning into commercial property.
"It has always been in the city's master plan for that area to be commercial or high-density housing," Nelson said.
Officials have opted to not take an aggressive approach with residents, but to just let development occur as developers want to go commercial.
"It's a matter of when developers come in and want their property to be zoned that way," Nelson said.
The city would like to see a couple of big-box stores in those large acreage spaces, but Nelson is uncertain if that will happen.
"It could happen, we just don't know," he said. He is optimistic about the future and thinks the area will continue to develop in commercial ways.
"The city is procommercial development along the Washington corridor," Nelson said.
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