Retail wrap: Fortress BeerWorks heading to Spring; Flying Biscuit Café to make Houston debut

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Fortress BeerWorks has leased a 6,620-square-foot space at 2606 Spring Cypress Road in Spring for a craft brewery to open this fall. The brewery, co-owned by head brewer Dion Billard, expects to be open Thursday through Sunday at the outset, and will partner with local food trucks. Chris Caudill of NAI Partners represented the brewery. Thomas Leger and Chase Cribbs of Lee & Associates represented landlords Blake Vincent and Richard Werner.

Flying Biscuit Café has leased 3,087 square feet in The Shops at Memorial City, 12389 Kingsride Drive, for its first Houston location. Brett Levinson with Weitzman represented the landlord. David J. Littwitz with Littwitz Investments represented the restaurant, which will open later this year. A second Houston location is set for 2019. Founded in Atlanta in 1993, there are 17 Flying Biscuit locations.

A private investor purchased a 3,850-square-foot building leased by Mercantil Bank at 3200 S. Shepherd Drive. JLL’s Pierce Owens, Donna Kolius and Kaylie Walker represented the seller. Ethan Offenbecher with TREK Investment Group represented the buyer.

Sozo Japanese Steakhouse has leased 2,625 square feet at the Crossing at Telfair at Texas 6 and U.S. 90 in Sugar Land. Hampton Inn Hotel and three more retail buildings are being built in the center, which will house Wingstop, Decadent Dessert and Coffee Bar, 20/20 & Beyond Eyecare, Nails of America, Lash Studio and other tenants. Eddie Lang of Quenby Commercial represented the tenant. Inna Gallagher of Rubicon Realty represented the landlord.

Shaka Power Yoga has leased 2,396 square feet at 10611 Fry Road, Cypress. Feysal Edris of Lee & Associates represented the tenant. Grant Gold with Howard Hughes Corp. represented the landlord.

Wingstop has leased 2,235 square feet at 11092 Fondren for a store to open this fall. Jason Gaines of NAI Partners represented the tenant. Austen Baldridge of New Quest Properties represented the landlord.

Hummingbird Montessori has leased 10,000 square feet at the Shops in Riverstone on the northeast corner of University Boulevard and W. Avalon Drive, Sugar Land. Jesse Hernandez represented the landlord, Hunington Properties.

Honeybee Foods has subleased 4,087 square feet at 6127 Texas 6, Missouri City. Benny Nguyen of Retail Solutions represented the sublessor. Hal Colbert of Colliers International represented the subtenant.

Full story: Houston Chronicle

Local restaurant group to expand 2 concepts to Katy lifestyle center

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Gr8 Plate Hospitality is heading west — west Houston, that is. 

The locally based restaurant group inked leases for two of its concepts at Houston-based NewQuest Properties’ Stableside at Falcon Landing in Katy in the Cinco Ranch area, according to a press release. The Union Kitchen will open its sixth location in a 5,000-square-foot space with seating for 450 guests, while the third storefront of Jax Grill will be 4,000 square feet with seating for 350. 

The restaurants are scheduled to break ground this summer, and the construction is expected to finish by early 2019, per the release. Both locations will feature large patios with outdoor seating and views of a shared green space. Click through the gallery above to see renderings of the concepts and the lifestyle retail center.

Total investment costs for the new storefronts are estimated to be $2.2 million, a spokesperson said. The Union Kitchen, at 9920 Gaston Road, suite 100, will hire about 60 employees, while Jax Grill, at 9910 Gaston Road, suite 200, will need about 40 people to work in the restaurant. 

Owners Paul and Doris Miller tapped two Houston-based firms as the designer and general contractor: Mark Boucher of Houston-based Boucher Design Groupis doing the design, while Charles Chapman of Corinthian Contracting is overseeing the build-out. Chapman also constructed The Union Kitchen’s Ella Boulevard and Washington Avenue locations, per the release.

David Littwitz of Littwitz Investments Inc. represented Gr8 Plate in the lease negotiations, a spokesperson said.  

Stableside is on 34.4 acres at the intersection of Gaston Road and Falcon Landing Boulevard in the Cinco Ranch area. The restaurants’ neighbors at the lifestyle retail center will be the 121,000-square-foot VillaSport Athletic Club and Spa, whose lease kicked off phase II of Stableside, and the 102,473-square-foot Kroger Signature store, which anchored the first phase of Stableside. That first phase was announced in September 2015 and completed in late 2016.

Across Gr8 Plate's three concepts — The Union Kitchen, Jax Grill and The Rollin’ Kitchen, which is an events and catering concept — the company has more than 400 employees, per the release. The Union Kitchen has locations in Bellaire, the Memorial area, Kingwood, Ella Plaza and on the ground floor of a new luxury apartment complex, Elan Memorial Park, off Washington Avenue. Jax Grill has stores in Bellaire and on Shepherd Drive just south of Katy Freeway. 

The Millers recently won the Texas Restaurant Association's Outstanding Restaurateur award, per the release. In January, they were recognized as the Greater Houston Restaurant Association Restaurateur of the Year.

Full story: Houston Business Journal