DALLAS — Chef John Coleman will open a restaurant and food kiosk in the new Klyde Warren Park, a 5.2-acre deck park built above Woodall Rodgers Freeway next to downtown and uptown Dallas. Savor, the restaurant, will be a gastropub featuring a custom mixology program. Bill Johnson of Atlanta-based Johnson Studios is designing the restaurant's interior. Savor will debut as a food truck until the restaurant is delivered in mid-2013. Relish, a permanent kiosk, will be a companion to Savor.
TEMPLE — Dragon Realty LLC has purchased a 9,786-square-foot freestanding restaurant building, located at 2113 SW HK Dodgen Loop in Temple. Tom Paredes and Taylor Roberts of the John T. Evans Co. represented the seller, Golden Corral, in the transaction.
ARLINGTON — Digg's Taco Shop and Smiling Moose Deli have leased space at the College Park development on The University of Texas at Arlington's campus. The new eateries will be the second location for both restaurants in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Other tenants at College Park include MAVS Sports Grill, Pho Xpress, Pie Five Pizza Co., GRIP Mediterranean Grill and Coolberry Frozen Yogurt. Digg's Taco Shop has leased 2,906 square feet and Smiling Moose Deli has leased 2,120 square feet. Frank Bullock and Jack Burgher of SRS Real Estate Partners represented the owner in both lease transactions. Cory McCord of Retail Plazas represented Digg's and Jennifer Frank of Princeton Partners represented Smiling Moose Deli.
WALLISVILLE — Pizza Properties, Inc. has opened a 12,000-square-foot Peter Piper Pizza restaurant, the first of 25 Peter Piper Pizza restaurants planned for the Houston market in the next several years. The new restaurant is located at 6223 E. Sam Houston Parkway North on Beltway 8. Additional sites for new Peter Piper Pizza restaurants are currently under construction in Victoria, Corpus Christi and Waco.
FORT WORTH — Chef Jon Bonnell of Bonnell's Fine Texas Cuisine will open Waters, Bonnell's Fine Coastal Cuisine, a 7,775-square-foot upscale restaurant, in the West 7th mixed-use development in Fort Worth. The property will be located at 2901 Crockett St., and the opening is slated for February 2013. Rodger Chieffalo of Chiefallo Realty, along with Frank Bullock and Carey Shagets of SRS Real Estate Partners, represented the landlord, Cypress Equities, in the lease transaction. Attorney Jack Larson represented the tenant.
ALLEN — San Antonio-based Taco Cabana has opened a new location at 810 W. Stacy Road in Allen. Sprinkle & Co. Architects handled the restaurant's redesign. There are currently more than 156 Taco Cabanas operating in three states.
HOUSTON — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a 2,520-square-foot retail property net-leased to Whataburger, located at 17234 NW Freeway in Houston. Whataburger has operated the site, which is an outparcel of the 200,000-square-foot Northwest Village, for 24 years. Vincent Knipp of Marcus & Millichap's Fort Worth office represented the seller, a Colorado-based limited liability company, in the transaction. The buyer was a California-based partnership.
WYLIE — Rosa's Cafe and Tortilla Factory has broken ground on a 7,000-square-foot restaurant, located in the Woodbridge Crossing development in Wylie. The restaurant will be Rosa's Cafe's 30th location. The new Rosa's Cafe is part of a new wave of retailers coming to Woodbridge Crossing, including Ross Dress for Less, Rack Room Shoes and Rue 21. Direct Development owns Woodbridge Crossing and Super Target and Kohl's anchor it.
RICHARDSON — Murphy-based A&S Ellington Properties has recently purchased a 1.29-acre tract of land at the northwest corner of Campbell Road and Lake Park Boulevard in Richardson for the development of a Chicken Express restaurant. Rick Ikeler and Brad Gibbs of SRSRE Partners represented the buyer in the transaction. Daniel Harris of Henry S. Miller Brokerage's Dallas/Fort Worth office represented the seller, H-H Retail. The buyer plans to break ground on the new Chicken Express this summer and deliver it by December 2012.
SPRING — Fuddruckers has opened a 3,700-square-foot restaurant, located at 7724 Louetta Road in Spring. Fuddruckers now has 54 stores in Texas. Luby's Inc. is operating the new restaurant, which will feature a produce bar and the Coca-Cola Freestyle system.
