Oak Harbor may be getting a new shopping center on the south end of the city.

S.E. Grainger Develop-ment Group LLC of Bellevue submitted an application to the city to develop the vacant area between Whidbey Island Bank and 7-Eleven on the busy stretch of Highway 20.

The development would be named Whidbey Island Place.

According to the application, the development would include three wood-framed retail buildings totaling 11,750 square feet on the east half of the lot. The company submitted applications for conditional use permits to put in two drive-through windows.

On the west half of the lot would be a metal framed grocery store building, totaling 20,000 square feet.

The development will help “provide a healthy mix of retail services for the Oak Harbor and the greater Whidbey Island area,” the application states.

The application doesn’t indicate what businesses might be part of the center.

“The finished product will be a Class A neighborhood shopping center project with a combination of national, regional and local tenants,” it states.

The development group reported that the center will employ 80 people and will have 145 parking spaces.

The center will generate an estimated 2,804 “average daily traffic,” the application says.

A traffic study and level of service analysis will be required as part of the development process, city documents indicate.

The property is owned by Carl Freund of Oak Harbor.

The website for S.E. Grainger Development Group describes it as a “full service real estate investment, development, consulting firm.”