Warwick, R.I. — BJ’s Wholesale Club, a leading operator of membership warehouse clubs in the eastern United States, has opened BJ’s market, a new smaller-format concept club in Warwick, R.I. BJ’s market is 43,000 square feet, about half the size
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Coral Gables, Fla. — Fogo de Chão has unveiled a new high-profile restaurant in Coral Gables, Fla. Located at 2801 Ponce de Leon Blvd., the new, two-story flagship features an expansive, 280-seat dining room and open-air churrasco bar. The design
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São Paulo — Global, sport-inspired fashion brand U.S. Polo Assn., the official brand of the United States Polo Association (USPA), is opening its first store in Brazil this April, in partnership with its Brazil licensee, Alpar do Brasil. The 1,000-square-foot
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Columbus, Ohio — Sunny Street Café, the Columbus-based breakfast and lunch restaurant chain, reported double-digit growth in 2021 — despite the pandemic — and is debuting an energetic new design that provides an even brighter spot for guests to dine,
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— By Chris Roy — The next level of tech experiences for retail and restaurant venues. Before the pandemic, immersive entertainment was an emerging trend in the retail sector. After a year and a half of reduced experiences, consumers’
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Salt Lake City — In preparation for rapid growth, Mo’ Bettahs Hawaiian Style Restaurant has launched a comprehensive rebrand that includes a brand-new prototype. The brand has 18 restaurants scheduled to open nationwide by the end of 2022, all of
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— By David Tracz — Modern restaurant design and its evolution. If there is one common experience that (most) humans share a love for, it’s probably food — especially when that food is cooked by someone else. Enter: the
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New York City — H&H Bagels, a legendary New York City brand since 1972, is reopening its Upper West Side location after a 9-week remodeling and renovation project. The 50-year-old bagel company was started with a single location on the
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— Interview with Justin Reese — Ghirardelli Chocolate Company enters its 170th year with major renovation plans for its iconic Ghirardelli Square flagship locations in San Francisco. As experiential retail returns across the country, an elevated experience
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Waikīkī, Oahu, Hawaii — Royal Hawaiian Center is celebrating the reopening of Restaurant Suntory on March 27 following an extensive renovation that began in fall 2021. The enhanced restaurant presents a captivating new design, inspired by the Japanese art of
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Los Angeles — sweetgreen, the mission-driven restaurant brand serving healthy food at scale, will be opening its first “sweetlane” concept in Schaumburg, Ill., within the next year. The new pilot restaurant will feature sweetgreen’s best-in-class in-store experience with the addition
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Minneapolis — Target Corporation has announced its most sustainable store to date in Vista, Calif. The site will generate more renewable energy than it needs annually to operate and will test multiple innovations to reduce the building’s emissions. The store’s
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Pittsburgh and Minneapolis — DICK’S Sporting Goods is now hiring for a new DICK’S Sporting Goods House of Sport store that will open in May 2022 in Minnetonka, Minn. The new retail concept was launched last year when the first-ever
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West Covina, Calif. — Red Ribbon Bakeshop, Inc., the Philippines-founded bakery that offers an array of sweet and savory baked goods, debuted its first-ever drive-thru service in the U.S. as part of its new store opening on Westheimer Road in
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Naples, Fla. — Naples Soap Company, a retail destination known for premium-quality skin and hair care products, has opened a 2,500-square-foot store at the Promenade at Sunset Walk in Kissimmee, Fla. This location is the largest store for the growing
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Denver — Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii, a leading coffee franchise renowned for its premium sourcing, roasting and quality 100% Hawaiian coffees and international blends, unveils new prototypes that emphasize franchisee and customer flexibility, including double drive-thru lanes and streamlined
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The Hummus & Pita Co., which marks its 10th anniversary this year, keeps its location count low and its bar for quality high. — By Katie Lee — With two years of pandemic-related upheaval in the rearview mirror,
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Plantation, Fla. — DHL Express, the world’s leading provider of international express shipping services, recently expanded its vast network of U.S. retail locations with a new mobile pop-up store in Gaithersburg, Md. The 2,200-cubic-feet, 100% off-the-grid, mobile DHL ServicePoint offers
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Sunnyvale, Calif. — Matterport, Inc., the leading spatial data company driving the digital transformation of the built world, has partnered with Orangetheory®, the fast-growing fitness franchise, which will utilize Matterport Capture Services to scan and create digital twins of all
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Irving, Texas — Fuzzy’s Taco Shop has signed a 50-store agreement with Richard Maddox, which will include expansion into the South with new markets in Alabama, North Carolina and Tennessee, and growth within Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, existing markets
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St. Louis, Mo. — Todd Korte has been promoted to executive chairman of The Korte Company after serving 21 years as the company’s president and CEO. Brent Korte, the company’s former chief operating officer, has been promoted to president and
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Rock Springs, Wyo. — U-Haul Moving & Storage now occupies the former Kmart® building in Rock Springs, Wyo., and is offering truck and trailer sharing, boxes and moving supplies, and U-Box® portable storage containers out of a temporary showroom. Towing
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Bettendorf, Iowa — After closing out one of its strongest development years to date in 2021, Happy Joe’s Pizza & Ice Cream is getting ready to make its 50th anniversary year its most successful year in brand history. The 46-unit
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— By Bryan Campbell — When developing on potentially contaminated property, you can protect your new building from VOCs with a vapor barrier. Historically, the term “vapor intrusion” was discussed only in association with the most heavily
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San Leandro, Calif. — Ghirardelli Chocolate Company plans to renovate its flagship location in San Francisco’s iconic Ghirardelli Square. The project is led by Bay Area-based design firm Eight Inc., with all three Ghirardelli spaces within Ghirardelli Square being updated
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Fort Worth, Texas — Chill-N Nitrogen Ice Cream (Chill-N), the made-to-order nitrogen ice cream pioneer, is planning the construction and buildout of its first-ever store in Texas. The new Fort Worth Chill-N is set to open in the next several
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New York City — As part of its expansion plans and commitment to bringing a new kind of retail to young families nationwide, CAMP, The Family Experience Company, will open its newest location at Burlington Mall in Burlington, Mass. The retailer
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