Land is being sculpted by heavy equipment in the Ceres Gateway Center for two big projects – the Tractor Supply and the four-story Woodspring Inn & Suites hotel.
In March the Ceres Planning Commission on Monday approved the 21,702-square-foot Tractor Supply, garden center, outdoor display and forage shed. A total of 89 parking spaces are proposed along with landscaping.
Tractor Supply sells clothing and apparel, pet supplies, work boots and shoes, and farm and ranch supplies such as ag fencing and gates, sprayers, tanks and pumps, tractor parts, livestock handling equipment, and ATV and UTV attachments. It does not, however, sell tractors.
“It has a regional commercial design so we’re expecting that this store will draw people from not only our city but the surrounding community and it will be a good addition to also our sales tax base,” said Hoem.
Grading and underground utilities will be the first order of business before the Woodspring Inn & Suites begins rising up. The four-story-high extended stay hotel building of 50,800 square feet will consist of 122 rooms and laundry facilities. It will occupy a 2.16-acre parcel in the new shopping center at the southwest corner of Mitchell and Services roads.
The Ceres Gateway Center, located south of Service Road between Mitchell Road and Highway 99, has been developed with an In-N-Out Burger, Starbucks, Chipotle, Ono Hawaiian BBQ and Quick Quack Car Wash.
Also under construction is a Popeye’s Chicken restaurant along Mitchell Road between Starbucks and the In-N-Out Burger. There is no word if the chain plans to keep its existing restaurant in Ceres at 1400 Hatch Road.
In September 2022 the commission also approved a 4,549-square-foot 76 gas station and a convenience store building with a drive-thru operation to likely support a fast-food restaurant to be located within the secondary tenant space. The project will be just south of Starbucks at the entrance of the center on Mitchell Road.
“We don’t know which use will be in there but it will be a commercial use, probably some kind of food chain because they’ve got in their plans a drive-thru and the drive-thru will serve that secondary tenant space,” said Community Development Director Christopher Hoem.
