The rundown tennis courts and mildew-filled YMCA pool on Shallowford Road could soon be replaced with a 34,000-square-foot retail space and four proposed one-story office buildings.
Bassam Issa, of ANT Group, hopes to purchase the 5-acre tract of land listed for $800,000 that is hedged between some apartment complexes, condos, businesses such as Home Depot, and the nearby YMCA Hamilton branch.
Issa said he will put a grocery store in the back of the 5-acre tract, and he’s already talking to two potential stores. The front of the property is slated to be office space.
“I’d like to see the renderings and verify that there are no apartments,” Joe Schultz, president of the Village of Ashwood Homeowners Association, said during a recent public meeting attended by nearly 20 area residents.
Surrounding property owners don’t want another apartment complex near them because they say it will increase traffic. Some 86 families occupy the Village of Ashwood near the proposed commercial development.