A couple shopping plazas in Boynton Beach have added tenants or have been redeveloped just in time for the holidays.
Woolbright Development of Boca Raton announced it has signed multiple leases for tenants at the Shoppes at Woolbright and Sunshine Square plazas in Boynton Beach.
Pete Schlang, Woolbright’s director of leasing, said Boynton is a growing community with a high percentage of middle-class residents – the kind of residents who shop at the two plazas in which Woolbright invested.
At the Shoppes at Woolbright, 10815 S. Jog Road, the company has signed Hem Over Heels, a tailor offering clothing alterations, embroidery services and shoe repairs. Hem Over Heels leased 1,000 square feet.
The plaza also signed Rotelli’s, a full-service pizza and pasta restaurant offering dine-in and take-out service. Rotelli’s has leased 2,500 square feet.
This 155,000-square-foot shopping center on the northwest corner of Jog Road and Woolbright Road will be anchored by Publix and is expected to open in late 2008, Schlang said.
“The Publix should be open by Christmastime,” Schlang said. “The other new stores will open the first quarter of 2009.”
Sunshine Square, 500 to 570 SE 15th Ave., has expanded the Salon Professional Academy, a beauty salon training academy, to 13,300 square feet and leased The Zoo Health Club, a gym and fitness facility, to 8,200 square feet.
Sunshine Square is a 147,000-square-foot center located on the southwest corner of North Federal Highway and Woolbright Road.
The center recently completed a renovation that includes fresh facades, a new paint scheme, tropical landscaping and a resealed parking lot.
“We completely renovated the land there and might partake in a phase two sometime down the road,” Schlang said. “East of Federal, there are high-income residents who like to come to that plaza and shop. It also doesn’t hurt that they are building 180 residential units north of Woolbright by the plaza.”
Bryan Wegman, who lives off Federal highway, south of Woolbright Road, said he was amazed at the difference in the plaza since the developer took over.
“It is like night and day,” he said. “A little over a year ago, this plaza looked horrid. Now it is one of my favorite places to come and shop.”
Based in Boca Raton, Woolbright specializes in the development and redevelopment of open-air shopping centers.
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