Three new fast food restaurants – including possibly Manteca’s fifth McDonald’s – could be built on the northwest corner of the Airport Way and 120 Bypass interchange.

An application to review the previously approved third phase of the Stadium Retail Center is currently being processed.

The third phase has been approved for a 140,013-square-foot Lowe’s Home Improvement Center in 2008 just as the foreclosure crisis hit. Developers completed more than $400,000 worth of environmental studies tailored specifically to Lowe’s. Plans for the store have been put on hold.

There was also 28,000 square feet of additional retail space approved in the development. Kitchell Development in 2008 had tentatively secured Walgreens as one of the tenants for a free-standing 10,000-square-foot building. The store – which would be the second Walgreen’s in Manteca – was also sidetracked due to the economy.

The area immediately north of the 120 Bypass and Airport Way interchange is expected to have a significant amount of construction as the economy improves.

A 71-room Microtel Inn & Suites has been approved along Airport Way north of Daniels Street. The developer is in the process of trying to secure construction funding.

Manteca has inked a deal with the Board of Supervisors to develop a South County government center on city-owned land at Milo Candini Dive and Daniels Street.

Developers also have shopped the northeast corner of Daniels Street and the Airport Way intersection to several supermarkets.

Great Wolf Resorts and McWhinney Development are also negotiating with the city to build a four-story, 400-to 600-room resort hotel with accompanying75,000-square-foot indoor water park plus a conference center on 30 acres of city owned land immediately west of Costco.