Parrish may be on track for a Tractor Supply Co. store at Fort Hamer Crossings
Fast-growing, amenity-starved Parrish may be getting a Tractor Supply Company store, where customers can buy just about anything — except tractors.
The planned store would be in the Fort Hamer Crossings shopping center, 5751 Fort Hamer Road, which is being developed by The Ferber Company, according to paperwork filed with Manatee County Building Services.
The Ferber Company also has retail space to lease near Bradenton’s Costco store on the northeast corner of Interstate 75 and State Road 64.
Tractor Supply styles itself as the largest rural lifestyle retailer in the United States, serving recreational farmers, ranchers and those who enjoy the rural lifestyle.
“Tractor Supply offers an extensive mix of products necessary to care for home, land, pets and animals with a focus on product localization, exclusive brands and legendary customer service for the Out Here lifestyle,” the company website says.
Tractor Supply is on track to have net sales exceeding $14 billion at more than 2,100 Tractor Supply stores, the Brentwood, Tenn.,-based company reported in its third quarter 2022 financial results.
The Parrish store would be the second in Manatee County. A Tractor Supply has been open in Bradenton at 4404 State Road E. for more than a decade. The company could not be reached for comment.
Plans for the Fort Hamer Crossings Center were originally submitted to Manatee County government in 2017. Among some of the potential uses mentioned at that time were a grocery store and sit-down restaurant, neither of which have been realized to date.
The Fort Hamer Crossings property is owned by William and Katherine Marsh of Montrose, Mich., according to the Manatee County Property Appraiser web site.
Parrish and the North River area has become a growth hot spot with thousands of new homes being built there.
A 2019 study by the Mellgren Planning Group, a Fort Lauderdale-based urban planning firm, commissioned by the Manatee County Commission, revealed that residents wanted more retail offerings.
More places to shop and more restaurants to have a sit down meal were high on this list.
Residents also wanted more public spaces and programming to bring those spaces to life, such as arts and crafts fairs, antiques fairs, swap meets and farmers markets built around the historic train station, Parrish Village Main Street, Parrish Village Central Park.
More than 20,000 new homes are forecast to be built in the near future, helping attract plans for two Parrish hospitals, the village’s first.
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