The Target Corporation has approved the final round of architectural changes to its store coming to the Kedron Village retail center, according to a letter from Target to City Attorney Ted Meeker.

The changes were required by the Peachtree City Council after a contentious exchange earlier this month between council and a representative of the developer for the project, Faison Enterprises.

In his letter to Meeker, Target Corporation Senior Regional Real Estate Manager Chris A. Case said the company wants to make sure it can proceed with seeking permits and no further action is required by the City Council for the project to proceed.

Adding the two awnings to the front and the extra display window on the side is "agreeable to Target," Case wrote.

Target's approval means the City Council's conditional approval of the store's architecture likely will stand.

The 124,000 sq. ft. store will be located in the Kedron Village retail center in north Peachtree City. The architecture for the site includes a pergola, a unique three-dimensional arbor that will feature live vegetation.

City officials got the revised site plan for the Target store Monday, said City Planner David Rast. Assuming that all of the city council's few remaining concerns were met, the final site plan could be officially approved by Friday, Jan. 7, by city staff and either the mayor or the mayor pro tem, Rast said.

Normally, the plans are signed off by city staff and a member of the planning commission which oversaw the project, but in this case, the site plan was in the hands of the city council. The planning commission, in October of last year, originally denied another version of the plans for Target.

Rast estimated it might be early Spring before any pre-construction activity can start on the site. The developer still needs to secure the development permits and finalize a few other outstanding issues, Rast noted. And the property must officially change hands, he added.

Officials for developer Faison Enterprises have said Target will own its site and will not be leasing the property.

Faison and Peachtree City Holdings, LLC, the owner of the property, sued the city over failure to approve development plans for the store, but a settlement agreement was reached in which the city agreed to approve the plans in a timely fashion or take the matter