But as Lee broker Duncan Lemmon explains, Kahala also is lookingfor a host of other types of locations for its restaurants,including some new types of venues that it hasn't enteredpreviously. The North L.A. office in Sherman Oaks will work withLee's 23 offices nationwide, explains Lemmon, who is a Lee retailspecialist and a 20-year industry vet.

"We have been named to cover all the ground that isn't in malls:neighborhood centers and other types of retail developments,mixed-use developments, office buildings and other locationsexclusive of malls, hospitals and airports," Lemmon says. Alongwith the many traditional types of locations, Kahala will belooking "creative solutions and opportunities for conceptlocations," he adds, explaining that the phrase "means that we areopen to put concepts into locations where the demand is there butthe location is different from any of the traditional locationsthat we've identified. We don't have any specific examples at thistime, which is why we're leaving it open and calling it creativesolutions. We are trying to think beyond what has already beendone."