HOUSTON — Tootsies has announced that it will relocate its Houston store to the 34,000-square-foot anchor space at West Ave, a seven-story multi-use residential project located at the intersection of Westheimer and Kirby in Houston. Build-out for the space will begin in the summer, and Gensler will serve as the architect of record. Tootsies will join Zaika, Eddie V's, Cru and Rome in the 190,000-square-foot retail and restaurant component of the project. Above the two levels of retail space, West Ave will also contain 389 luxury apartment units. Approximately 40 percent of the retail space is lease and 70 percent of the residential space, which opened last February, is leased. The project's first retail openings will begin in May. The owners of West Ave are Gables Residential and Northwestern Mutual.
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