Retail wrap: Planet Fitness, Chicken Salad Chick, F45 open new Houston spaces

2022-09-24 00:57:10 By : Ms. Yao Yao

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Planet Fitness will open health club at 6102 Scott St. in early September.

The Market, a Kroger-anchored lifestyle center at Spring Stuebner Road and Holzwarth Road in City Place, welcomes Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa as a tenant.

Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa joins the roster of tenants at The Market, a Kroger-anchored lifestyle center at Spring Stuebner Road and Holzwarth Road in City Place. The center is a joint venture of Regency Centers and CDC Houston.

F45 will open a fitness studio at Gulf Coast Commercial Group’s Baybrook Passage Shopping Center in Webster in early 2023.

Gulf Coast Commercial Group is adding new tenants, including F45 fitness, to Baybrook Passage Shopping Center at 19425 Gulf Freeway in Webster.

Planet Fitness, one of the largest franchisors of fitness centers in the U.S., will open health club at 6102 Scott St. in September.

Planet Fitness will open health club at 6102 Scott St. in early September.

Island Grill opened its 979 Bunker Hill Road location in 2015. The company recently renewed its lease with MetroNational. Cushman & Wakefield represented Island Grill in the renewal.

Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa opened a 2,556-square-foot spa at 2168 Spring Stuebner Road in The Market at City Place in Spring. The location is operated by franchisee and Spring resident Larry Salguero. The Market, a 170,000-square foot, Kroger-anchored lifestyle center near the Grand Parkway and Interstate 45, is a joint venture by Regency Centers and CDC Houston. AlphaMax Realty represented the tenant. Swift Holdings was the general contractor.

F45, an Australian-born fitness brand centered around 45-minute workouts, leased 2,359 square feet in Baybrook Passage Shopping Center at 19435 W. Bay Area Blvd. in Webster for its 14th location in the Houston area. Brian Ashby and Sidney Dixon of CBRE represented the tenant. The center’s owner and operator, Houston-based Gulf Coast Commercial Group, was represented in-house by Danny Miller, along with Elise Weatherall of Wulfe & Co. Opening is slated for early 2023.

Houston Fitness Partners, a Planet Fitness franchisee operating more than 30 locations in the Houston metro area, plans to open a 20,441-square-foot health club at 6102 Scott St. in the Greater OST/South Union community in early September. The gym will offer state-of-the-art cardio machines and strength equipment, 30-minute express circuits, numerous flat-screen televisions, locker rooms and showers. The club, which offers $10 a month memberships and aims to provide a welcoming fitness environment for everyone, will be open and staffed 24/7.

Reset by Therabody, a provider of health and wellness services for the mind and body, opened its first Texas location at 5085 Westheimer in the Galleria. Services include Theragun massage and stretch, PowerDot electrical stimulation, sound therapy, IV hydration and hyperbaric chambers. Therabody, an online brand based in Los Angeles, is expanding its retail footprint with stores and wellness centers nationally.

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Chicken Salad Chick, a fast casual restaurant offering a more than a dozen types of chicken salad along with side salads, soups, sandwiches and desserts, announced the opening of its newest Houston-area restaurant in Weslayan Plaza, at 5310 Weslayan. Slated to open Sept. 22, it will be the brand's 12th location in the Houston market and the third for franchise owners Ronald and Kathleen Ram of Houston CSC LLC. Chicken Salad Chick West University will mark the grand opening by giving away free chicken salad for a year to the first 100 guests and other promotions during opening week. The Rams, who got their start in franchising with Pizza Patron locations across Texas, opened their first Chicken Salad Chick in Katy in 2019. Established in 2008 in Auburn, Ala. and now based in Atlanta, Chicken Salad Chick has 220 locations nationwide. Weslayan Plaza is a owned by Regency Centers.

Loco Cantina leased 3,323 square feet in the Kings Harbor Shopping Center at 4501 Magnolia Cove in Kingwood. Franck Agard of Haussmann Realty Group represented the tenant. Kristen Barker, formerly of Wulfe & Co., represented the landlord.

The Dripbar, an IV vitamin therapy franchise, announced a new location in Cinco Ranch at 9920 Gaston Road Suite 170 in the Katy area. The location, which offers IV vitamin infusions and shots, is operated by franchisee Heather Leopold.

Arkansas-based 7 Brew is entering the Houston market. The chain signed a ground lease with NewQuest Properties for one of the last available pad sites in Spring Town Center, a 212,591-square-foot development at FM 2920 and Kuykendahl in Spring. 7 Brew will build a store with dual drive-thru on a 31,363-square-foot parcel of land at the center, where Dave's Hot Chicken is building a 2,995-square-foot restaurant and Visionworks is finishing out 2,874 square feet of space. Connor Lynch of Main Street Commercial represented 7 Brew. Lara Lee LaMendola and Kevin Sims of NewQuest represented the landlord.

Island Grill signed a 2,135-square-foot lease renewal for its 979 Bunker Hill Road location in Memorial City. Michael Burgower and Eric H. Lestin of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant. Danna Diamond represented the landlord, MetroNational. Developed, owned, and operated by Faysal Haddad and his wife Maria Haddad, Island Grill has grown to five locations since 2000. Bunker Hill opened in 2015.

Nanos, a premium children’s clothing store originally based in Spain, opened at 2534 Amherst St. in Rice Village. The shop is operated by Maria Atencio Nebreda and Alejandro Nebreda. Burdette Huffman of The Blue Ox Group represented Rice Village in the lease.

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