EAST PEORIA, ILL. — Chicken Salad Chick has opened today at The Levee District in East Peoria. The restaurant, which specializes in homemade chicken salad, occupies 2,718 square feet between Jersey Mike’s Subs and Xfinity. The first 100 guests on opening day will receive one large serving of chicken salad per month for an entire year. The restaurant will open at limited capacity with social distancing measures in place for COVID-19. This will be the farthest north restaurant of Chicken Salad Chick’s 157 locations. Chicken Salad Chick currently operates in 17 states and is rapidly expanding with both franchise and company locations. Owned and managed by Cullinan Properties Ltd., The Levee District encompasses 650,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, as well as office, hotel and civic components.
TOMBALL, TEXAS — MSP Drilex Inc., a technology and service provider for the oil and gas industry, has signed an 11,375-square-foot industrial lease at 21227 Hufsmith-Kohrville Road in the northern Houston suburb of Tomball. According to LoopNet Inc., the property was built in 2015 on 1.1 acres and includes 2,700 square feet of office space. Mike Spears and Patrick Wolford of Lee & Associates represented the landlord, Epic International, in the lease negotiations. Payton Indermuehle with Keen Realty Group LLC represented the tenant.
KEARNY, N.J. — Terreno Realty, a California-based REIT, has signed an undisclosed e-commerce user to a 211,000-square-foot industrial lease at one of its facilities in Kearny, approximately 12 miles west of New York City. The lease term is 10 years. A wholesale drug distributor previously occupied the property. Additional terms of the deal were not disclosed.
FOREST PARK, GA. — Robinson Weeks Partners has signed two industrial tenants to occupy a total of 184,670 square feet within Building 400 at Gillem Logistics Center in the south Atlanta suburb of Forest Park. Cleveland-based North Coast Logistics will occupy 107,675 square feet beginning in October. Jacob Westfall of CBRE represented North Coast Logistics in its lease transaction. Orlando-based farming company Kalera Inc. will lease 76,995 square feet at the property, which is situated 12 miles south of downtown Atlanta within five miles of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Kalera produces non-GMO vegtables and will be able to double its operations, allowing the facility to produce 11 million heads of lettuce per year. Derek Riggleman and Trip Ackerman of Lee & Associates represented Kalera in its transaction. John Gaskin internally represented Robinson Weeks Partners in both negotiations.
MCHENRY, ILL. — Superior Felt & Filtration (SFF) has signed a 75,000-square-foot industrial lease at 1359 Ridgeview Drive in McHenry, about 50 miles northwest of Chicago. McHenry-based SFF has experienced rapid growth due to the production of personal protection equipment for coronavirus. Owned by Midwest Industrial Funds (MIF), the 218,064-square-foot building is a former Motorola production site. It features a clear height of 28 feet. MIF plans to renovate the office space and add more air conditioning capacity. Dan Benassi, Dan Jones and Sam Deihs of Entre Commercial Realty represented SFF in the lease transaction.
TAMPA, FLA. — Royal Pets Market & Resort has signed a lease with Bromley Cos. at Midtown Tampa. The 8,000-square-foot space will be the flagship location for the company, which offers veterinary care, an indoor dog daycare and a pet spa. The space will be situated on the ground floor of Novel Midtown Tampa, which is expected to open later this year. Royal Pets Market joins other announced retail tenants such as Joffrey’s Coffee, True Food Kitchen and Whole Foods Market. Bromley Cos., Casto, Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estate and Crescent Communities are developing Midtown Tampa, which will feature more than 200,000 square feet of retail, restaurant, entertainment and outdoor space; 750,000 square feet of office space; Novel Midtown Tampa; and two boutique hotels.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Infrastructure design firm HNTB Corp. has signed an office lease at Frost Tower, a 314,879-square-foot building in downtown Fort Worth. The property was completed in 2018 and offers a full-service restaurant, conference and event center, elevated outdoor patio areas and wine lockers. Seth Koschak and Cullen Donohue of Stream Realty Partners represented the landlord, Anthracite Realty Partners, in the lease negotiations. Sven Sykes, Brad Balke, Daniel Rudd and Billy Vahrenkamp of Colliers International represented the tenant
DALLAS — NAI Robert Lynn has negotiated a 26,418-square-foot office sublease for Texas-based Veritex Community Bank at 12750 Merit Drive, a newly renovated building in North Dallas. Veritex Bank is expanding its footprint in Dallas, and the new space will accommodate about 150 of the company’s 700 total employees. Amenities at the property include a conference center, fitness center, tenant lounges and a deli. Kent Smith of NAI Robert Lynn and Dan Boyles of NAI Partners’ Houston office represented Veritex Bank in the lease negotiations. The name and representative of the original tenant and landlord were not disclosed.
CHICAGO — Health Care Service Corp. (HCSC), the parent company of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois, has signed a 103,533-square-foot office lease at Mural Park in Chicago. Located at 920 W. Cullerton St., the two-building office project is now 63 percent leased. Mural Park is a redevelopment of two historic 100,000-square-foot industrial loft buildings in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood. It was completed in January 2019. HCSC will fully occupy one of the buildings and join existing tenants Puratos Group, Noble Forward, Relay Chicago and Back of the Yards Coffee. Jeff Dowdell and Katie Steele of Transwestern Real Estate Services represented the landlord, Condor Partners, in the lease transaction with HCSC. Sean Reynolds, Meredith O’Connor, Matthew Carolan and Amy Berg of JLL represented HCSC.
BENSENVILLE, ILL. — H. Betti Industries Inc. (HBI) has signed a 41,168-square-foot industrial lease at 350 N. York Road in Bensenville near O’Hare International Airport. HBI distributes amusement, vending and audio-visual equipment, including parts and services for video games, pinball machines, jukeboxes, pool tables and currency changers. Beginning in August, the company will consolidate two of its existing operations — a 25,000-square-foot distribution center in Bensenville and a smaller satellite location in Wood Dale — at the new location. Owned by Prologis, 350 N. York Road features a clear height of 32 feet, 10 loading docks and office and showroom space. John D’Orazio of Colliers International represented HBI in the lease.