RAYTOWN, MO. — Block & Company Realtors has brokered the sale of a 1.28-acre pad site located at the southeast corner of 75th Street and Raytown Road in Raytown, a suburb of Kansas City. Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers acquired the site for an undisclosed price. The buyer plans to construct a restaurant on the site, with completion scheduled for early 2017. David Block and Phil Peck of Block & Company Realtors negotiated the transaction. The name of the seller was not released.
SOUTH PORTLAND, MAINE — David Lengyel, owner and chief caretaker of Willows Pizza, has leased the former SoPo Bar and Grill space at 740 Broadway in South Portland. SoPo Bar and Grill, which had been in operation since 2014, suddenly closed last week. Lengyel plans to relocate Willows Pizza from 1422 Broadway to the new 8,800-square-foot location and will be opening for business in November. Additionally, Lengyel plans to re-hire as many former SoPo employees as possible and expand the restaurant’s menu to include SoPo’s standard fare, including steaks and burgers. Cole Smith of CBRE | The Boulos Company brokered the transaction.
MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Wingstop is set to open a new 1,745-square-foot restaurant at The Shops at Eagle Point in McKinney. Britton Lankford of Bright Realty represented the tenant in the transaction, and Vy Le of Quine & Associates represented the undisclosed landlord. Walmart shadow anchors the shopping center, which is also home to tenants including Subway, Mooyah, SportClips Haircuts and Kelly-Moore Paints. An opening for the restaurant has yet to be announced.
SKOKIE, OAK BROOK AND HYDE PARK, ILL. — Nando’s Peri-Peri is opening three locations this fall in Chicagoland. The restaurants in Skokie, Oak Brook and Hyde Park will be the company’s ninth, tenth and eleventh locations in the Chicago area. The South African-Portuguese restaurant operates locations in 23 nations from Australia to Zimbabwe.
KATY, TEXAS — The first round of retailers will open Oct. 28 in the 89-acre Grand Morton Town Center, including a 125,531-square-foot Kroger Marketplace. The NewQuest Properties project, being developed in phases, ultimately will bring 600,459 square feet of retail, restaurants and medical offices to the neighborhood. Opening in tandem with Kroger Marketplace will be Ideal Dental, Supercuts, T-Mobile and Today’s Vision, totaling 7,700 square feet. Rebecca Le and Josh Friedlander of Houston-based NewQuest will handle leasing. Grand Morton Town Center includes more than three-quarters of a mile of frontage along Grand Parkway. About 60 percent of the project is pre-leased, leased or under negotiation for a lease. The project also includes 16 pad sites, four of which will be occupied by McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Chick-fil-A and Whataburger.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Transwestern has brokered the sale of Presidio North, a retail development site in Tarrant County. Las Vegas-based Diversified Real Estate Group sold the property for an undisclosed price to a locally owned development partnership controlled by the De La Vega Group. Transwestern’s Steve Williamson represented both parties in the transaction. Presidio North, located at the southwest corner of I-35 West and Heritage Trace Parkway, consists of 90 acres in north Fort Worth. Transwestern will provide marketing and leasing services for the mixed-use project, which will be renamed The Citadel. De La Vega plans to develop 500,000 square feet of retail, restaurant, hotel and entertainment space at the site.
LEE’S SUMMIT, MO. — Parrot Properties, in partnership with Block & Co., has received approval for its $225 million Village at View High development in Lee’s Summit from the city’s planning commission. The mixed-use project will feature multifamily space, 250,000 square feet of retail space and more than 100,000 square feet of office and medical space, as well as a proposed senior living facility. To be developed in three phrases, the project will feature 23 acres of land for 300 luxury apartments, 13 acres for a gated-community of senior living villas, townhomes and apartments, and 35 acres for retail, restaurant and office development. The project team includes Engineering Solutions, TransSystems, Hirst and Associates Architects, Bushyhead, and Humphrey, Farrington & McClain PC.
KATY, TEXAS — Trademark Property Co. has entered into an agreement with Westside Ventures to develop an 82-acre mixed-use development at the northwest corner of I-10 and Mason Road in Katy. Planning will continue in the coming months for the initial 60-acre phase, which will include retail, restaurant, residential, hotel and office space. The site, which is part of a larger 107-acre tract owned by Westside Ventures, will be developed in phases over several years. Phasing and a construction timeline will be scheduled following planning.
WHITEHALL, PA. — PH Retail, an affiliate of a Post Brothers, has completed the sale of a restaurant property, located at 2610 MacArthur Road in Whitehall, for an undisclosed price. The 4,815-square-foot property is occupied by Chick-fil-A under a triple-net lease. The name of the buyer was not released. PH Retail originally acquired the property in February 2015 after it had fallen into disrepair following the departure of a prior restaurant. The company led the demolition of the existing structure and secured approvals for the development of the new freestanding Chick-fil-A building.
ALLEN, TEXAS — Capital Pacific has represented the seller of an El Pollo Loco located at 386 E. Stacy Road in Allen. The property was sold for $3.2 million to an all-cash investor from California utilizing a 1031 tax-deferred exchange. The El Pollo Loco is on a 20-year net lease with rent increases every five years.