Sunbury Center: What’s Planned for the Granville and Sunbury Meadows Corner
October 1, 2026
October 1, 2026
Drive west on Granville Street past the square and you'll hit a fenced lot with a rendering sign bolted to a temporary post. The sign shows three buildings, a rooftop bar, and a logo for something called Sunbury Center. Right now the site is 4.64 acres of graded dirt with a retention pond cut into the south end. Nothing above ground has started.
The difference between the rendering and the current site reflects the project's present stage of development.
On July 15, 2026, Sunbury City Council unanimously approved a project from Local Provision LLC for the corner of Sunbury Meadows Drive and West Granville Street, just west of downtown and about 1,000 feet from Sunbury Square. The approval covers a three-building, 34,000-square-foot commercial district on land that was rezoned to a Planned Commercial District back in 2023. Three years between rezoning and a construction green light is the kind of timeline that doesn't show up on a rendering, but it's the actual pace of how this site has moved so far.
The site plan calls for two access points, one connecting to West Granville Street on the east side and another on Sunbury Meadows Drive to the west, plus 194 parking spaces spread across the property. Architect Tim Lai designed the project.
Of the three buildings, only one has a defined shape right now. Building A sits on the south side of the lot near the retention pond, runs about 11,000 square feet, and is split into three tenant spaces. Local Provision has told the city it hopes to fill that space with a restaurant or brewery that has an outdoor deck, along with a wine shop and a breakfast-and-lunch spot.
Hopes to fill is the accurate phrase here. No council record from the July 15 meeting names a signed tenant for Building A. What's confirmed is the building's footprint, its location on the parcel, and the category of business the developer is targeting for each of its three spaces.
Local Provision's website carries a roster of well-known Central Ohio food and beverage names, including Nocterra Brewing, Wolf's Ridge, Columbus Brewing, Scramblers, First Watch, Another Broken Egg Cafe, Cameron Mitchell, Firebirds, J. Alexander's, Chipotle, Jersey Mike's, Hot Chicken Takeover, Agape Mediterranean, and J Gilbert's.
The same site carries a second list, the one the developer gave to reporters covering the July 15 vote: a high-end restaurant, a fast-casual eatery, a salon, a bakery, an ice cream shop, a barbershop, an urgent care center, a bank, and a boutique. Those are categories, not names.
Both lists come from the same source. Neither one has been confirmed by a signed lease as of this writing, and the July 15 council meeting produced no announcement of an actual tenant for any of the three buildings. The named-brand list functions the way these lists usually function on commercial leasing sites: as a picture of the kind of tenant the developer is marketing the space toward, aimed at other prospective businesses browsing available square footage, not a guarantee of who's actually signing.
The Chipotle name appears on the project's leasing page as a prospective tenant, not a confirmed lease.
Buildings B and C haven't gotten as far as Building A in the public record. Council gave no timeline for either one at the July 15 meeting. The company's own website says it expects Building A to be complete in 2028, with construction on Buildings B and C beginning only after that. Local Provision's site currently lists Building A as now leasing, which is a marketing status, not a construction status. Signing tenants can happen well before ground is broken.
So the practical read for anyone watching this lot: expect years, not months, before any storefront here has a working door. The first building on the site that's furthest along in the process is still two years from completion by the developer's own estimate, and the other two buildings haven't been scheduled at all.
Sunbury Center isn't the only thing under construction near downtown right now, and the surrounding activity is worth knowing if you're trying to picture what this stretch of Granville Street will feel like once buildings start going up.
On the square itself, the city's planning and zoning commission approved a replacement building in June 2026 for the lot where Atlas Insurance stood before its roof collapsed under snow load on February 4, 2026. The new structure, presented by owners Kelley and Brad Hall, will be a two-story mixed-use building with the owners' mortgage and insurance businesses on the ground floor, a future commercial tenant space facing the square on the second floor, and two stacked two-bedroom apartments at the rear. Mayor Joe St. John told council on July 1 that he expects the building to be a good addition to the square. That's a separate project on a separate timeline from Sunbury Center, on the opposite side of downtown.
A few miles east, the Sunbury Parkway and Interstate 71 interchange is also under construction, a $31.9 million project involving Delaware County, the City of Sunbury, and Berkshire and Berlin Townships. Beams for the new bridge over I-71 went up in April 2026, set at night to avoid rush-hour traffic, and the project will eventually extend Wilson Road and connect to Africa Road. That road work matters here because it's part of how traffic will eventually reach this stretch of Granville Street from the interstate, even though it isn't part of the Sunbury Center project itself.
None of these pieces are on the same schedule. The road work has a construction phase already underway. The square infill project has a design and a use but no construction start reported yet. Sunbury Center has an approved site plan, one building with specified dimensions, and a leasing page that lists Building A as now leasing.
The rendering sign at Granville and Sunbury Meadows shows the proposed project. The available approval and leasing information describe its current status. What's confirmed today is a footprint, a parking count, an architect, and a category list for what Building A hopes to hold. What isn't confirmed is a single named tenant, a completion date any sooner than 2028, or any schedule at all for the other two buildings on the lot.
If a specific restaurant name matters to you, the way to know it's real is a lease announcement or a building permit for tenant improvement work, not a logo on a leasing website.
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