AMES, IOWA — The Opus Group has added two tenants to The Foundry in Ames. Starbucks Coffee and Barefoot Campus Outfitter both signed leases for ground-floor space at the 53-unit student housing complex. Slated to open in fall 2015, Starbucks will occupy 2,000 square feet and Barefoot Campus Outfitter will occupy 3,500 square feet. The developer broke ground on The Foundry last fall. Slated to open this August, the project’s residential space is 100 percent pre-leased with 1,900 square feet of retail space still available. Chris Thomason and Steve Scott of NAI Optimum represented Opus in both transactions. Boh Kurylo of The Lerner Company represented Starbucks and Ryan Davenport of Scott Brown Commercial represented Barefoot Campus Outfitter in the deal.
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