The other shoe is about to fall.

With work well under way on the big mixed development project 220 Riverside, another residential/retail project right next door is getting closer to approval and construction.

Though the 11-acre, $53 million project doesn’t have a name yet, the pieces are coming together: The front half, along Riverside Avenue, will be 53,000 square feet of retail and restaurants, anchored by a grocery store. Behind that will be an apartment complex with 310 units.

Right now, ash is being removed from the site bounded by Riverside Avenue and Jackson, Park and Leila streets while developers put the final touches to their plans.

A new design for the Riverside Park residential development Downtown was granted conceptual approval Thursday, a design dubbed by one member of the approving board as a "huge improvement."

The Downtown Development Review Board, part of the City Office of Economic Development, granted conceptual approval April 5, 2012, for a "carriage house" design for the project, but the design submitted Thursday lacks such a feature. The new design represents a different site plan and design for the three- and four-story buildings in the Downtown development.

The design moves the buildings to the property lines along the street and increased the number of units from 283 to 310.

Natural foods grocers are hungry to open new stores around Atlanta.

N.C.-based Earth Fare Inc. is scouting sites for its first metro stores. Arizona-based Sprouts Farmers Markets LLC is likely to open several stores as it pushes into Georgia. And already-familiar concepts including The Fresh Market and Whole Foods Market continue to grow slowly, adding one store at a time.

"I think the wave of grocery is going in this fresh, organic direction," said Amy Fingerhut, a commercial real estate broker in CBRE Inc.'s Atlanta Retail Services Group.

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A new plan for the old University Hospital complex at 9th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard includes more housing and likely a King Soopers.

7NEWS confirmed with King Soopers spokeswoman Kelli McGannon that the grocery chain is finalizing negotiations to build a standard King Soopers to be the anchor of the 9th and Colorado development.

"We are continuing to work with them. We are in negotiations with this project. Our interest continues in this site. We are continuing to work with the city and its partners to create a redevelopment of this property that would serve this unique Denver neighborhood," said McGannon.

According to Denver City Council President Mary Beth Susman, the new plan calls for King Soopers, a senior living facility and a hotel, along with peripheral retail.

Jeff Fuqua is set to join Michael Bull on his nationally syndicated weekly talk radio show to discuss the U.S. retail market. Fuqua Development invites you to tune in to The Commercial Real Estate Show by clicking the link below.

The show is set to air in the local Atlanta area on Biz1190 WAFS this Saturday, January 24, 2013 at 10 a.m. ET.

The Jacksonville City Council approved four bills Tuesday night, including the Pope & Land development in Riverside and a bill that streamlines the city's economic development process.

The Pope & Land bill authorized the Riverside Park development. The city will spend $1.8 million to improve the infrastracture near the project and would authorize $5 million in Recapture Enhanced Value (Rev) Grants.

The development is on an 11-acre site that Pope & Land Enterprises Inc. of Atlanta acquired from a bank in late 2011. According to the proposal, Atlanta-based Lincoln Property Co. would build a $37 million, 300-apartment community that would front Park Street and be bordered by Magnolia, Leila and Jackson streets.

Today Fuqua Development and their capital partner, The Lionstone Group, working with Mayor Michael B. Hancock and the University of Colorado, confirmed they are in negotiations with King Soopers for the anchor retail location of a revised development plan for the former CU Health Sciences Center site at East 9 th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard.

"The city and our partners have worked tirelessly for nearly a decade to create a development at 9 th and Colorado that the neighbors - and the entire city - can be proud of," Mayor Michael B. Hancock said. "Although negotiations are ongoing, I am excited at the prospect of one of Denver's best-known and respected retailers stepping forward to work with us in fulfilling our vision for this area."

Kroger Co. is negotiating for one of its grocery stores to anchor the redevelopment of the old University of Colorado Hospital at East Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard - replacing Walmart, which pulled out last month amid outcry from the neighborhood.

What kind of store, whether it is a King Soopers or a more upscale brand from the Kroger chain, is still being discussed, said Janice Sinden, chief of staff for Denver Mayor Michael Hancock.

Sinden said one option being explored is a Fresh Fare store - one of Kroger's new-style stores that have upscale meats and seafood, gourmet cheeses and natural and organic foods, as well as chef-prepared meals to take home, besides the usual array of grocery items.

If you've driven by the intersection of Peachtree Parkway and Peachtree Corners Circle, the blue and white sign announcing a new development on that corner has probably caught your eye.

The sign announces that a new "speciality retail development" called "Peachtree Corners Place" is planned for the corner across the street from Dreamland restaurant.

An Atlanta-based company, Fuqua Development, has its eye on the property. Patch spoke briefly with Jeff Fuqua, spokesman for the company who said the company was in the early planning stages.