A new plan has emerged to bring retail development to the northwest corner of Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive.

Southwind Capital on Friday afternoon filed two rezoning requests and a preliminary development plan to build a 190,265-square-foot retail building on the site.

The plan filed at city hall did not mention a possible tenant for the building, and Bill Newsome of Southwind Capital said the Lawrence developer was not ready to discuss possible tenants.

The plan shows the building would be occupied by a single retail user, and would include an outdoor garden center area.

The rezoning requests call for rezoning 1.30 acres from planned office district to planned commercial district and 1.65 acres from planned residential district to planned commercial district. Both rezonings would be needed to accommodate the retail building.

Lawrence city commissioners approved a development plan for the corner in October that would have allowed for a 133,000-square-foot building plus two smaller commercial buildings of 15,000 and 7,000 square feet.

Newsome said the development company was seeking changes to the approved plan to allow the main retail building to increase in size by approximately 30,000 square feet. The new plans eliminate the two smaller buildings.

Under the new plan, the total amount of commercial space in the development would grow to about 21 acres from about 18 acres. The remaining 30 acres still would be used as office and residential space.

As part of the original approval, the developers agreed to a condition that the area not be used for a department store that would compete with downtown. Developers are not asking for that condition to be removed as part of the new plan.

The proposal must be approved by the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission and the city commission. The plan is tentatively on the planners’ Aug. 28 agenda.

City commissioners have rejected development plans for that corner twice previously, citing concerns about the amount of commercial development proposed.

Commissioners first rejected a plan that called for 52 acres of commercial development and then rejected a scaled-back plan that called for 26 acres of commercial development.