In a press release from the

discount chain's corporate office in Michigan, officials

said 66 stores around the country would be closed. The

Fayetteville store at 240 Banks Crossing, along with a

store in Stone Mountain, are the only two in metro

Atlanta being shut down. Company officials said the

stores were marginally profitable, but not profitable

enough to justify the capital investment needed to expand

them.

Local Kmart management

referred all calls to the corporate office, which did not

return calls by press time.

The Fayetteville Planning

and Zoning Commission voted Tuesday night to table

developer Bob Rolader's for the proposed Deer

annexation and rezoning request Pointe development Highway

54 and Lester on the western end of the city, off Ga. and

Huiet roads. Rolader wants 873 acres annexed into

Fayetteville, with 454 homes proposed and 43 percent open

space. He has offered to donate two lakes to the city for

water and a 215-acre parcel for permanent open space. The

city will continue to study the proposal in the coming

weeks.

Plans for a Hooters

restaurant in Fayetteville are on hold indefinitely.

The development plan for the proposed restaurant on Ga.

Highway 314 at Banks Road was tabled with almost no

discussion, in response to a prior written request from

Hooters management, due to conflicts with the overall

development of the Fayetteville Retail Center, a JDN

Development Corp. project that includes the Applebee's

restaurant and Eckerd drug store next to the proposed

Hooters site.

According to city staff,

required improvements to Banks Road have not been

completed and the city does not yet have a signed

development agreement concerning the overall site.