A Wilmington resident has submitted preliminary site plans to the city for a 9,350-square-foot brewery and restaurant on land at the corner of Oleander Drive and Greenville Avenue.

If approved by city officials, Wrightsville Beach Brewery would be located on part of four parcels at 6201 and 6205 Oleander Drive and 12 and 24 Greenville Ave., which total about 1.34 acres, site plans say.

“We’ve received excellent feedback from the city, and we look forward to the hearing before TRC [the city’s Technical Review Committee] to get this project moving,” said brewery developer Peter Watkins, who has been homebrewing for several years and who has experience with the local real estate and development industries through his family’s business.

Watkins also previously managed restaurants in the Washington, D.C., area.

A first review of the brewery plans is included on the TRC's agenda for 8:30 a.m. Oct. 15. The meeting will be held in the technology conference room on the fourth floor at 305 Chestnut St. in downtown Wilmington. 

Watkins said the site at Oleander Drive and Greenville Avenue, which is currently owned by Seagate Village LLC and under contract with Watkins, includes four live oak trees that he plans to preserve.

“We’re literally not going to cut a single live oak” for the brewery project if it gets the green light from the city panel, Watkins said.

He said Charlie Cazier, principal of Intracoastal Engineering, which created the brewery’s site plans, “understood that saving those trees is important to me and was talented enough to come up with a plan that would give us the ability to pull that off.”

Also on the TRC's agenda next week are first reviews for a new 7,381-square-foot AutoZone auto parts store at 3913 Oleander Drive and a 7,000-square-foot addition to an existing 9,900-square-foot retail and office structure at 2525 S. 17th St., where the Reeds Jewelers Inc. corporate office is located.