Potpourri of Retail Leases OK'd for Suburban Centers

HOUSTON, TX - July 8,  2002--  More than 8,000 sf have been absorbed by small retail users in a trio of deals in suburban submarkets. For Saigon Seafood Wholesale, it was a renewal while Friendze Stores Inc. and Great Clips have beefed up their store count.

Saigon Seafood Wholesale re-upped a 4,717-sf lease at Beechcrest Green Shopping Center at 10815 Beechnut in southwest Houston. Shawn Ackerman of the Houston office of Henry S. Miller Commercial represented the property owner, Beechcrest 10815 Inc., of the 18-year-old, 31,687-sf shopping center.

Friendze Stores Inc. leased 1,750 sf at Mason Creek, a shopping center situated at 870 Mason Rd. in Katy, just west of Houston. Ackerman represented the tenant while Sherry Rice of C.S. Realty structured the deal for owner, Mason Creek Shopping Center LP. Friendze is a jewelry store with a location in the town of Humble, just north of Houston.

Great Clips, one of the nation's largest chains of family hair-care salons, signed for 1,715 sf at North Oaks, a 322,000-sf Center at 4551 FM 1960 West in Houston's northwest submarket. David Stukalin of the Houston office for Dallas-based Weitzman Group brokered the deal for the tenant. Houston's Weingarten Realty Advisors is the property owner.

Henry S. Miller Commercial, founded in 1914, is Texas’ largest independent commercial real estate firm and a member of The Commercial Network, one of the largest affiliations of commercial real estate firms in the nation.