Mel Bratman, the area developer for the fast-growing chain, tells GlobeSt.com that he just signed a five-year lease, with a five-year option, for 1,740 sf of inline space in Pavillion North at 2517 Campbell Road in North Dallas. He says interviews will begin in the coming days for the finish-out crew to ready the site for training and an April 24 seminar for QuikDrop prospects.
"I feel very satisfied with the location," Bratman says. "It's a high-profile location." And, he gets a place on the marquee with the signing negotiated by Tonya Haygood with the Christon Co. in Dallas and the local property owner's broker, Mike Cagle with the John Bowles Co., also from Dallas.
The 138,630-sf Pavillion North has about 36,000 sf sitting empty, but talks reportedly are underway to backfill 14,309 sf vacated by a Sony service store. Inline space in the class B center ranges from $14 per sf to $15 per sf triple net.
Bratman's plan is to have the Pavillion North store open two months as a training site before leasing additional locations in the 35-store rollout that he's gaming out for Collin, Dallas, Denton and Tarrant counties. Bratman and partner, Debbie Long, are the area developers in North Texas for the Carson City, NV-based QuikDrop International, one of a handful of eBay drop-off operators looking to set up nationwide networks. Just last week, QuikDrop got the go-ahead to open a block of stores in Florida.
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