Lowe’s has applied to the city to build a store on the Seventh Day Adventist property near Wendy Drive and Grand Vista Drive just north of the 101 Freeway where a Costco store might have gone.

Restaurants and a retail store could also be built at the site and, if a zoning change request is allowed, possibly a junior department store or a nightclub with dancing.

The center could add about 100 jobs to the area, economic development director Gary Wartik said.

Although the restaurants being considered haven’t been announced, he said, more fine dining in the Newbury Park area, along with a nightclub, could be a good addition to the city.

“A nightclub could do well. We have nothing like it in the area,” Wartik said.

The additional businesses could help the Lowe’s development bring more tax dollars to the city. According to estimates, Costco, a wholesale club store, would have brought hundreds of thousands of dollars more in net taxes for the city than Lowe’s, Wartik said.

Because there’s no store like it in Thousand Oaks, Costco would have brought customers from other cities here to spend their money. But Lowe’s will draw customers from other Thousand Oaks building supply and hardware stores such as Home Depot and OSH, Wartik said.

Home Depot is practically across the street from where Lowe’s wants to build.

“Lowe’s is more consumeroriented and Home Depot is more contractor-oriented,” Wartik said.

OSH, also consumer-oriented, is about 10 miles away on Avenida de Los Arboles, east of the 23 Freeway.

It’s possible some of Camarillo’s 66,000 residents would drive up the grade 5 miles to shop at Lowe’s.

There’s a Lowe’s in Ventura, but that’s 15 miles from Camarillo, Wartik said.

Costco’s proposal and that of Lowe’s share some features, said community development deputy director Mark Towne.

The size of the two would be about the same, with the expected height being around 30 feet. The Lowe’s building application is for 121,000 square feet with a 31,000-square-foot garden area. Costco had two driveways proposed, Lowe’s is asking for four driveways and 645 parking stalls, Towne said.

If Lowe’s gets the City Council to approve the plan amendment and zone change for part of the site from its current C-2 zoning to C-3, it wouldn’t be allowed to sell boats or cars or build a gas station, as it would no longer be zoned “highway, arterial.” But it would have “community shopping center” zoning that allows for activities such as a junior department store or a nightclub with dancing, Towne said.

Most of the site is already C-3 and changing the zoning to be entirely C-3 would also “clean it up” and make it more uniform, Towne said.

“It’s a concern to have a Lowe’s in Thousand Oaks, but we pride ourselves at trying to be better at customer service,” said William Freeman, the manager of the Do-it Center on T.O. Boulevard.