Retail

ESCONDIDO, CA-A San Diego-based construction management and consulting firm has completed a project for a golf improvement center here. The golf facilities market has been especially strong, with golf manufacturing and practice facilities proving to be particularly popular among developers.

TAVARES, FL-The six-story, $129 million, 450,000-sf Florida Hospital Waterman, going up in a city of 9,000 permanent residents 30 miles northwest of Downtown Orlando, is doubling land prices and forcing entrepreneurs to look hard for new developable land.

BOSTON-Modern Continental Enterprises removes Trammell Crow Co. from its position as exclusive leasing agent for Independence Wharf, the 335,000-sf office building located on Atlantic Avenue in the financial district, and gives the contract to Cushman & Wakefield.

SAN DIEGO-99 Cent Only Stores leased 16,200 sf of retail space in Clairemont Town Square for 10 years. 7-Eleven signed a 20-year lease for 28,444 sf in the Valhalla Village Retail Center in El Cajon.

DENVER-Brewery Bar II, a popular eatery at the edge of Downtown Denver, is opening a second location in the Entertainment District in the recently created city of Lone Tree. Wynkoop Brewing Co. is opening the first "brew-pub" in the Capitol Hill neighborhood east of the Central Business District.

SEATTLE-Starbucks Coffee International has inked a deal with Marinopoulos Brothers, a retail, commercial and industrial group in Greece, to open specialty coffee shops in Athens and throughout the country. The first store is scheduled to open in Athens this fall.