Dirt work begins for a proposed retail center south of McDonald’s Restaurant in Wellington
Road graders were shown moving dirt earlier this week west of Wellington Wal-Mart.
by Tracy McCue, Sumner Newscow — The dirt work you are seeing south of McDonalds and west of Wellington SuperCenter appears to be a development that was originally proposed four years.
TAPP Development, based in Edmond, Okla., is in the process of building a strip-mall type retail center on the 5.8 acre lot behind McDonalds.
What could go into that development and a list of stores has yet to be announced.
TAPP Development received a building permit to the city of Wellington on Wednesday. They have been doing dirt work at the complex since Monday.
Sumner Newscow had contacted the corporate office this afternoon, but has so far not received a return phone call.
TAPP had originally bought the property west of Wellington with McDonalds owning the north section.
In late 2011, TAPP Development had announced that it was building four specialty stores which could possibly include a restaurant with a drive thru on the 5.8 acre lot. Whether that is in the plans now is not known publicly.
Originally, the construction was to start in December, 2011 but it fell through for whatever reason.
In a Sumner Newscow interview that was published in Nov. 3, 2011, Tim Clarke of Tapp Development Corp stated the company typically develops property with Walmart Super Centers as anchor and outer retails around them. The plans in 2011, was the new Wellington outlet would be considered a “shadow†retail center.
