Retail Brokers Hustle 55,400 SF in Nine Deals

MJDesigns is eyeing an August occupancy of 31,000 sf near the Parks at Arlington mall. The retailer will share a big box used for storage after Target moved into its SuperTarget store that rose in front of the now surplus space. Hancock Fabrics will share the shuttered Target.

Key to the decision was the location near the mall, which is bringing in sales of $418 per sf. "That's an excellent number in today's environment," says Terry Syler of Dallas' Weitzman Group. He and Steve Lieberman represented the tenant, which will be opening its 11th DFW location in the site leased from Commercial Net Lease Realty.

Staubach Co.'s Brian Murphy and Greg Bracchi closed a 6,000-sf pact for Car Toys Inc. in its ongoing expansion in the metroplex. The latest signing puts the retailer into a center being developed by RJS Marine Inc. at the southeast corner of Brinker Road and Loop 288 in Denton. The center opens in March 2003.

The Staubach team represents Car Toys. Mark Hajdu of Henry S. Miller Commercial in Dallas handled talks for the building owner.

Chicago Pizza & Brewery Inc. signed leases in Addison and the Houston suburb of Webster in line with a 10-store Texas expansion to open four to six locations this year and the balance in 2003. The 7,300-sf Addison location is in a center along Beltline Road. The Webster restaurant is 10,000 sf and it's along Bay Area Boulevard. The restaurants will open in five to eight months.

Dallas' Forest View shopping center gets a 1,028-sf lease from Looks of Dallas. Hajdu and Ryan Hamilton, also with Henry S. Miller Commercial, represented the hair salon and building owner, Billion Enterprises II Ltd. The same building owner also got Kaffa Coffee into 1,071 sf at 8989 Forest Lane in a pact worked out by Hajdu.

Hamilton and Vaughn Miller closed a new location for Half Price Laptops in the Valley View Market in North Dallas. The retailer took 1,250 sf from building owner Midway LBJ Partners Ltd.

Henry S. Miller's Michelle Hudson and Linda Ward finalized a 3,872-sf lease for ABCO Salon Services at Cityview at 6101 SW Loop 820 in Fort Worth. Meanwhile in the town of Lancaster, Jess Thornhill Enterprises will slide into 2,014 sf in a tenant and building owner deal structured by Hajdu for the Idlewild Shopping Center at 3215 W. Pleasant Run Rd. The space will function as a game room and restaurant.

In Arlington, Wings to Go leased 1,866 sf in Stanton Plaza at 4261 W. Green Oaks Blvd. Collin Berg and Peter Kosley, brokers with Henry S. Miller Commercial, represented the building owner, Stanton Plaza Shopping Center Partners Ltd.