SPANISH FORT, Ala. — Board of adjustment members met Aug. 7 to discuss additional signage requested by developers of the Spanish Fort Town Center, Cypress Equities.

The board granted variance for the additional sign and each will now work on the legal documents, according to Rebecca Gaines, who sat in for City Attorney David Conner.

“We will finalize the terms of the restrictive covenants then once that is done they will receive a building permit to construct the sign,” Conner said.

The proposed location of the new sign will sit 900 feet east of the current sign, city officials said. The development has 6,000 square feet of frontage along Interstate 10.

The 266-acre center already has one monument sign facing Interstate 10; developers are requesting another sign to feature other tenants who don’t have frontage along the interstate.

The second multiple listing sign will look like the one already standing, however, it will exclude Bass Pro Shops and other businesses already listed on the current sign, according to the city’s building official, Bruce Renkert.

Hotels are also planned for the center, however, they won’t a sign since they will be visible from the interstate, Renkert said.

“The purpose is picking up all of the interior tenants,” Wayne Hooten of Cypress Equities, said. “There’s a tremendous amount of traffic on the interior.”

Four possible automobile dealerships, including Terry Thompson Chevrolet, are expected to come to the center. In this case, each of the auto dealerships can have one pylon sign — that is, one on a single, free-standing pole.

“A car dealership by nature is going to have these big signs,” Gaines said.

“The second sign is needed,” board of adjustment member Bernard Davis, said. “Once we open this mall up we need to get people in there.”

Other planned businesses for the center include, J.C. Penney, Kohl’s, Circuit City, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Toys “R” Us and La-Z-Boy.

Additional businesses are interested in signing leases for the Town Center but are concerned about signage and want to wait before signing a lease, city officials said during a special work session in July.

City officials also expressed concerns of having an abundance of signs along the interstate.

“We don’t want to make Spanish Fort another Airport Boulevard (in Mobile),” Mayor Joe Bonner said during the work session. “This is a big investment for everybody.”