Retail Therapy: What will new year bring to Skibo Road?

The new year should bring some new businesses to Skibo Road.

But what will they be? For the most part, that remains to be seen.

There's lots of activity at different locations along the busy commercial corridor, including the continuing makeover of Marketfair Mall and clearing work at three sites along the road.

Marketfair Mall reps haven't announced who's slated to join Carmike Cinemas, Gander Mountain and HH Gregg in the shopping center once its redevelopment is complete. But a few of the future tenants have indicated their plans to come. They include hardwood flooring retailer Lumber Liquidators, the sandwich shop chain Which Wich, and Planet Fitness.

South of Marketfair, the land between Verizon Wireless and Casual Jack's restaurant has been cleared. Charlotte-based Providence Group has been marketing the site for months as a future shopping center. A flier at Providence Group's website shows a plan for a strip center with eight units containing nearly 19,000 square feet with some named tenants - McAlister's Deli, Wing Stop, Mission BBQ, Total Nutrition, MOD Pizza and World of Beer. But are they coming there for sure? All are mum for now on the subject although McAlister's Deli has said it definitely plans to open a store in Fayetteville.

A little bit farther down the road, just past Cliffdale Road, the 48-acre site that used to be home to the Leisure Living mobile home park is now empty and awaiting its new fate. The land was rezoned commercial last spring and its owners have said a shopping center is planned. Warehouse club Costco has been said to be looking at the site but nothing's confirmed.

Down near Skibo's intersection with Raeford Road, behind the Hardee's, is another cleared patch of land destined for shopping. Owner Jurgen Stanley said it will be a small strip center with five units in about 6,500 square feet total. He said one tenant will be a mail-delivery business and another a sandwich shop. The other three tenants are still being lined up.

Stanley expects the center to be up and running by late spring.

Elsewhere in town, what's going to happen with the former Wynnsong cinema space at the Boone Trail shopping center?

Something.

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Retail Therapy: What will new year bring to Skibo Road?