A leading developer of Whole Foods Market stores and centers in the Southeast has announced plans for a mixed-use project on Atlanta’s growing west side.
Entertainment and dining are the current bywords of brick-and-mortar retail, and one will be replacing the other in a remake of a center in Asheville, North Carolina.
A 44,095-sq.-ft. center serving the Disney-planned community of Celebration, Florida, has been acquired by Ben Hur Investments of New York for $29.5 million.
People in rural counties like yoga and gourmet burgers, too, but towns like Quincy, Illinois, don’t show up on the population density charts of many hot new franchising companies.
Retail and industrial space occupied by brewing operations in Texas has nearly tripled since 2005 to 4.8 million sq. ft. due to the meteoric rise of craft beers in what once was the Lone Star (Beer) state.