Shops selling teen fashion accessories, curtains and fries are the latest to debut at
Hunt Valley Towne Centre. Country Curtains, Five Below, Boardwalk Fresh Burgers & Fries and Chick-Fil-A opened within the last two months at the open-air shopping center anchored by Wegmans Food Markets.
Five Below, a discount retailer targeting teens, opened a 9,000-square-foot store selling school supplies, sporting goods, games, fashion accessories and bath and body products. Everything in the store costs $5.00 or less.
Boardwalk Fresh Burgers & Fries opened a 2,500-square-foot store on the second level of the mall, next to Greetings & Readings.
Country Curtains sells drapes, bedding, pillow and other home d�cor in its 3,100-square-foot store. It moved to the center at 118 Shawan Rd. from another Hunt Valley location on York Road.
Later this year, the shopping center will welcome
MVP Entertainment, the Ray Lewis-backed bowling alley and restaurant. The 62,000-square-foot facility will feature a sports bar, billiard tables, golf simulators, a coffee bar and 38 bowling lanes equipped with flat-screen televisions.
"It will add a tremendous amount of entertainment," says Greenberg Gibbons Commercial Corp. Chief Operating Officer Tom Fitzpatrick. Greenberg Gibbons is the developer of the Main Street-style shopping center.
Fitzpatrick says he sees a bit of an uptick in the retail market, which soured during the recession.
"The retailers that have the capital to expand are certainly doing so," he says.
To win over business owners, Greenberg touts the center's ample parking and anchor tenant Wegmans. With the new tenants, that leaves all but one space in the nearly 1 million-square-foot shopping center leased.
Writer: Julekha Dash
Source: Tom Fitzpatrick, Greenberg Gibbons