By JIM BUTLER
Two more annexation petitions have been submitted for tracts in Alexandria’s booming Versailles Boulevard corridor.
The requests will be received by the City Council next Tuesday and held over for consideration.
Versailles is the high-traffic link between Coliseum Boulevard and Jackson Street.
Passersby have watched clearing since late October on property being prepared for development.
Ahrens Interest LLC seeks Single Family Moderate Density designation for about 49 acres.
Junior Investments LLC is asking General Commercial use for not quite six acres that was formerly part of the Ahrens tract.
Parish records show Ahrens, through Daniel Ahrens, purchasing all the acreage in question in October.
Ahrens bought about 24 acres immediately south of the Diversion Canal and two acres across Versailles for $450,000 from Camille Daspit Lacy, Marilyn Quantz Pias Merritt and Renee Daspit Knapp Gremillion.
Ahrens Interest then purchased about 30 acres adjoining the first tract from Flynn Development Corp. Sale price was $1.1 million.
On October 20, Ahrens sold a 5.67-acres piece carved from the 30 acres to Junior Investments LLC, represented by Taylor Ward and Jameson Finn, for $1.42 million, records show.
The council is expected to accept Coca Cola’s petition submitted earlier to take in acreage along John Allison Drive.