The Dixon City Council has approved a special use for one of the new businesses the city plans to add to its growing commercial development site near Interstate 88.

That use status, granted to Tropical Smoothie Cafe franchisee Salem Najjar of Michigan, is a special use required for restaurants that operate a drive-thru like this restaurant will. It’s one of several businesses included in a multi-tenant building being constructed at the intersection of Keul Road and South Galena Avenue in Dixon, according to city records.

The council approved a redevelopment agreement for the 9,000-square-foot building Sept. 15. It will house Tropical Smoothie, an OSF OnCall urgent care office and other businesses that have yet to be announced, according to the agreement.

It’s the latest to be announced in Dixon’s 3-year-old, 27-acre Gateway project. The city expects the entire project to create more than 600 jobs and $1 million a year in new tax revenue once it’s completed.

So far it’s opened a Chipotle, Jersey Mike’s, Casey’s gas station, T-Mobile, Wynn Nail Spa, a cannabis dispensary, a child care center operated by the Dixon Family YMCA and Water Castle Car Wash. A Fairfield Inn by Marriott and a McDonald’s are on the way as well.