Plano buying heart redo wraps up

Development has wrapped up on a Plano buying heart redo.

Willow Bend Market is a 25-year-old retail heart on the southeast nook of the Dallas North Tollway and West Parker Street.

The 175,000-square-foot group heart is anchored by grocer Tom Thumb and has different tenants together with On the Border, Starbucks, Newk’s Eatery, Chase Financial institution, Dough Pizzeria Napoletana, Zaap Kitchen, Einstein Bros. Bagels and Baskin Robbins.

Dallas-based industrial property agency Weitzman manages and leases Willow Bend Market and oversaw the just-completed renovations to the middle.

On the similar time, Tom Thumb made upgrades to its grocery store.

The buying heart transforming included new signage, lighting on the buildings, landscaping and different enhancements.

“Because of these enhancements, which additionally improve safety and security on the heart, Willow Bend Market continues to attempt to create an excellent and great buying expertise for its prospects whereas remaining an important and integral a part of the brick-and-mortar commerce of the group,” Weitzman’s Bernard Shaw mentioned in an announcement.

The Plano retail property is one among a number of in North Texas that Weitzman is overhauling.

The retail property agency can also be transforming the Meadow Central Market shopping center on U.S. Freeway 75 in North Dallas which can also be anchored by a Tom Thumb retailer.

Whereas homeowners are revamping current properties, few ground-up retail developments are underway.

Solely about 760,000 sq. ft of new and expanded retail projects are set to open their doorways within the D-FW space in 2022 — the second lowest quantity of buying heart building North Texas has seen in a long time, in keeping with Weitzman.