The company, based in Austin, has about 170,000 sf in two buildings at the Expo Business Park in the southeast submarket. With the Buda space, Calendar Club is closing a facility in Rotterdam, NY, near Schenectady, that had been part of an acquisition, Bob Harvey, vice president of operations, tells GlobeSt.com.
Casey Borgers and Jerry Heare, industrial specialists with NAI/Commercial Industrial Properties Co. in Austin, represented the building owner, Fred Eppright. Andy Pastor of Endeavor Real Estate Group LLC negotiated for the Calendar Club.
Calendar Club operates seasonal stores selling calendars and games in malls around the country. Its Christmas Corner business will be housed in the Buda building.
Harvey says the company needed the space too quickly to consider building a new facility at the Expo Business Park. "We needed something that was quickly available to capture the returns of the stores–the unsold merchandise and the displays," he says. "That was one of the key driving issues."
The Buda building started as an indoor shrimp farm. The last tenant was a box company.
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