- January 10, 2025
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Image from County Commission meeting documents
The Palm Coast City Council has approved a pre-annexation agreement for a 30-acre property slated to become a shopping center featuring a BJ’s Wholesale Club with its own gas station.
The shopping center — called Cornerstone at Seminole Woods — sits on the corner of State Road 100 and Seminole Woods, next to a Race Trac gas station and near the Flagler Executive Airport.
The intersection has drawn traffic complaints in the past.
Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin asked city staff at a Feb. 7 meeting to prepare an assessment of the traffic consequences of the development before the council agrees to annex.
“I’m not asking for a traffic study, I’m asking for staff’s opinion,” Alfin said.
The land is now in the county government’s jurisdiction, and the developers are moving through the county’s review and approval process.
Palm Coast Planning Director Ray Tyner said the county and the developers are working through potential impacts in the site plan approval process.
The BJ’s will be the largest retail store in Cornerstone, filling the main 102,004-square-foot lot. Five smaller storefronts will line S.R. 100, according to the development plans.
The Flagler County Planning and Development Board and the Board of County Commissioners reviewed and approved initial development, signage, landscaping, lighting and parking space plans in September 2022.
The pre-annexation agreement that the council approved will let the development use city water before the annexation, Senior Planner Jose Papa said.
Once the property ownership is transferred from current owners Flagler Pines Properties and Flagler Airport Industrial to BJ’s and Seminole Woods Investments, the new owners will file an annexation petition for the city.
The council can then consider that request, Papa said, after BJ’s and Seminole Woods Investments request a water service connection from the city.
The pre-agreement is not a binding agreement to annex, City Attorney Neysa Borkert said.
That water use is also dependent on the council approving a utility agreement with BJ’s and Seminole Woods Investments. Jay Livingston, representing both applicants, said that they had received the utility agreement that morning for signing.
“It’s in the process of being signed and returned,” Livingston said.
