REAL ESTATE

Baker Katz acquires Houston property; retail addition planned
Houston -- Houston-based Baker Katz, an X Team International partner and full-service commercial real estate brokerage firm, announced the acquisition of a 2.12-acre property with an existing 13,000-sq.-ft. office building located near the cross streets of U.S. Highway 59 N and West Little York Road in Houston.
Online puppet retailer to become ‘real’ store chain
Mount Shasta, Calif. – Following the lead of Pinocchio, online puppet and educational toy retailer ePuppets Inc. is joining the “real” world.

E-Puppets will open its first physical store on July 4, in its headquarters town of Mount Shasta, California.

dd's Discounts opens fourth Tucson-area store

Dublin, Calif. -- dd’s Discounts, a division of Ross Stores, Inc., opened its newest Arizona store on June 27 – a 22,000-sq.-ft. unit in North Tucson.

The newest store is located in the Oracle Gateway off of North Oracle Road and Pastime Road, 3.7 miles north of downtown Tucson, and it brings the total number of stores in the Tucson area to four.
dd's Discounts opens new Louisiana store

Dublin, Calif. -- dd’s Discounts, a division of Ross Stores, Inc., opened a new store in Lafayette, Louisiana, on June 27.

The 21,000-sq.-ft. store is located in the Karam Shopping Center, a 100,238-sq.-ft. site at Evangeline Throughway and Willow Street.
Ross Dress for Less to open a pair of new stores near Raleigh

Dublin, Calif. -- Ross Dress for Less will open two new stores in the Raleigh, North Carolina, area on July 18. The stores are located in the Wake Forest Crossing in Wake Forest, 15 miles northeast of downtown Raleigh, and the Shops at Cameron in Sanford, 50 miles southwest of Raleigh.

These openings are part of the retailer’s 2015 expansion program, totaling approximately 70 new locations during the year.
Kohl’s opens new concept

New York -- Kohl's has thrown its hat in the growing off-price market.

The company has officially debuted its new off-price format, Off Aisle by Kohl’s, with a test store in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
Ross Dress for Less to add two stores to Kentucky presence

Dublin, Calif. -- Ross Dress for Less will open new stores in Corbin, Kentucky, and in Middletown, Kentucky, both on July 18.

The 22,000-sq.-ft. Corbin store is located in the Trademart Shopping Center at Highway 25 and Master Street.

The 25,000-sq.-ft. Middletown store is located in Middletown Commons at Interstate 265 and Shelbyville Road, 14 miles east of Louisville.

Both are part of the retailer’s 2015 expansion program, totaling approximately 70 new locations during the year.
Ross keeps growing

Dublin, Calif. -- Ross Dress for Less (“Ross”) isn’t slowing down its brick-and-mortar expansion.

The chain will open a new location in Salina, Kansas, on July 18. The 25,000-sq.-ft. store is located in the Central Mall, 80 miles north of Wichita. The opening is part of the retailer’s 2015 expansion program, totaling approximately 70 new locations during the year.
REI bringing the outdoors to new markets

Seattle – Lovers of the great outdoors in the Cleveland and Philadelphia areas have something else to celebrate as Independence Day approaches.

Outdoor gear and apparel retailer announced it will open new stores in fall 2016 in Cleveland and in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
dd's Discounts brings Las Vegas store count to four

Dublin, Calif. -- dd’s Discounts, a division of Ross Stores, Inc., opened a new store in northeast Las Vegas on June 27. The 22,000-sq.-ft. store is located in Bonanza East Shopping Center at the intersection of North Eastern Avenue and East Bonanza Road, 1.5 miles northeast of downtown Las Vegas.

The newest location brings the retailer’s total store count in the Las Vegas area to four.