A retail strip center anchored by at least one national chain restaurant could pop up along East Clay Street in a year’s time, an investor in the property said Monday.

A Subway sandwich location is planned on about 1.2 acres in front of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District headquarters, said Ketan Desai of Jackson-based KVS Enterprises Inc.

The firm owns the Subway location on Pemberton Square Boulevard.

The site is where Maxwell’s Restaurant operated for four decades until its closing in September 2005.

A revised deed transferring that part of the former restaurant’s property was filed in Warren County land records last week.

A Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers restaurant, in the works for three years since the Maxwell’s building was razed, is still planned next door, though it will be handled by a separate set of developers, Desai said.

Development of the hollow near the “four-way” intersection of Mississippi 27, U.S. 80 and 61 and East Clay Street would be a bracket on a commercial strip of East Clay well-traveled by customers of McAlister’s Deli across the street and Beechwood Restaurant & Lounge to the east.

Maxwell’s closed following the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the business’s food supply, owner Virginia Monsour said at the time.