Plans for CVS Pharmacy to move from its current Corinth Square location onto the parcel where the abandoned Tippin’s building currently sits are back.

Assistant Prairie Village city administrator Dennis Enslinger told the city council on Monday he anticipates the company will submit an application by Friday seeking to redevelopment the former Tippin’s site into a new CVS location.

Should the redevelopment come to pass, it would fulfill part of Corinth Square owner LANE4’s obligations under the Community Improvement District passed by the city council last fall.

CVS has approached the city for permission to build on the site in the past, when Corinth Square was owned by Highwoods Properties, but the plans faltered after negative feedback from the planning commission, city council and public.

Some of the skepticism that a “big box” pharmacy at the intersection of Somerset Drive and Mission Road would be a good aesthetic fit for Corinth Square clearly remains. Resident Charles Schollenberger, who spoke out against the CIDs last fall, told the council last night that he hoped the city would work to ensure any development on the site fit in with the “quaint” nature of the shopping center.

“I think it’s bad public policy to allow a big box store to come into a traditionally designed center,” Schollenberger said. “Current CVS buildings in the area, like the one at Ranchmart, would be an abomination on that site.”

Councilwoman Laura Wassmer told Schollenberger she and several other council members shared his concerns, and had been giving feedback to both LANE4 and CVS about what type of building would be appropriate on the site. Mayor Ron Shaffer reminded Schollenberger that no one had seen CVS’s proposal yet.

Enslinger said the public would have two opportunities to share their thoughts on the project proposal and design: at a neighborhood meeting tentatively scheduled for May 18 at 6 p.m. at city hall; and at the June 7 planning commission meeting, to be held at 7 p.m. at city hall.