Berlin, Dollar General Ink Deal For Property Sale, New Store

BERLIN – A developer is expected to abandon plans to build a Dollar General at a controversial location near Atlantic General Hospital after agreeing to purchase a new site from the town.

On Monday, the Berlin Town Council voted 3-0 to allow Mayor Gee Williams to sign a contract with Oxford Chase Development, the company that has been working to build a Dollar General in Berlin, for the sale of 1.67 acres near the intersection of Bay Street and Route 113. The property was part of the roughly five acres the town purchased for $828,000 in 2010.

“I think this helps accelerate the development of that neighborhood for the benefit of the entire community,” Williams said.

Oxford Chase Development will pay the town $296,378 for the parcel. The adjacent land — what’s left of the town’s original five-acre purchase — will eventually be the site of a new police station and water tower. Though there were at one time plans to put a community center on the site as well, Williams said the town now intended to use land on Flower Street — which would be acquired as part of the former Tyson plant purchase — for that purpose.

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