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As a leader in the retail real estate industry, the experts at Baker Katz are often called on by local, regional and national media to comment on retail and development trends. Check out our latest news coverage.
Jun
27
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Baker Katz buys League City retail center near future destination developments

By Florian Martin – ReporterHouston Business Journal Houston-based commercial real estate firm Baker Katz has acquired a shopping center adjacent to League City’s planned 70-acre Riverview mixed-use development. The firm purchased the 108,000-square-foot Pecan Park Plaza
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Jason Baker
  • League City
Feb
02
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As COVID-19 pandemic approaches 2-year mark, experts weigh in on future of restaurants

The Covid-19 pandemic has continued to be a challenge for the restaurant industry. Omicron, the most recent strain of the virus, has been the latest threat to restaurants due to high transmissibility resulting in an explosion
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Jason Baker
  • Restaurants
Jun
11
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As business surges, new retailers struggle to find places to build, real estate exec says

With an economy that is beginning to recover as more people become vaccinated, retail is recovering, too, in nearly all sectors. Jason Baker, principal at Houston-based commercial real estate firm Baker Katz, said he’s seeing retail
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Jason Baker
Jan
03
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Behind the deal: Houston’s growth brought this furniture retailer to town

For Nolan Morrison, regional manager with American Furniture Warehouse, expanding the company from its locations in Colorado and Arizona to Houston was a numbers game. Houston offered a lot of advantages to the Englewood, Colorado-based company,
  • Ben Brown
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Katy
  • American Furniture Warehouse
  • Conroe
  • HBJ
  • Webster
Jan
03
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American Furniture Warehouse buys land for Conroe store

American Furniture Warehouse completed the purchase of a 30-acre tract at Interstate 45 and River Plantation Drive in Conroe for its third Houston-area location. The site will house a 443,375-square-foot store, including 150,000 square feet of
  • Ben Brown
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Katy
  • American Furniture Warehouse
  • Conroe
  • HBJ
  • Webster
  • AFW
Jan
02
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Furniture retailer buys third massive tract for another Houston-area store

American Furniture Warehouse, an Englewood, Colorado-based furniture retailer, has acquired a 30-acre tract in Conroe for its third Houston-area store, according to a press release. The store, just south of the Grand Central Park master-planned community,
  • Ben Brown
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Katy
  • American Furniture Warehouse
  • Conroe
  • HBJ
  • Webster
Apr
12
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HBJ’s 2019 Landmark Awards: Land Deal winner and finalists

Winner: H-E-B’s Land Purchase at Kirby Boulevard and West Alabama Street Developer: Midway/H-E-B Seller: Tommy Dickey / Tom Lipincott Attorney: Greg Erwin Broker: Tim Dosch and David Marshall (represented seller); Baker Katz (represented H-E-B) San Antonio-based
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Jason Baker
  • HEB
  • Awards
Dec
21
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Houston real estate firm buys former Sharpstown Mall

Houston’s oldest enclosed mall has a new owner. Houston-based commercial real estate firm Baker Katz bought PlazAmericas Mall, formerly known as Sharpstown Mall and Sharpstown Center, from Philadelphia-based RAIT Financial Trust (OTCQB: RASF), according to a
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Jason Baker
  • Kenneth Katz
  • Development
  • Mall
  • PlazAmericas
  • Sharpstown
Dec
29
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Here are the Houston-area stores HEB plans to open in 2018

It’s been a year of growth for San Antonio-based H-E-B Grocery Co. in Houston, and 2018 will be no different. In 2017, the company opened two locations and a Joe V’s concept in the greater Houston
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Kenneth Katz
  • market trends
  • HEB
Oct
25

Houston Brokers see potential slowdown in retail developments in 2018

Houston may see a slowdown in retail development in 2018 – but that probably isn’t a bad thing. “Two years ago, there was no end in sight (to retail developments),” said Jason Baker of Baker Katz
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Jason Baker
  • HEB
Mar
23
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Houston brokerage closes on land at ‘dominant retail intersection’

Houston-based Baker Katz LLC plans to bring more retail to southeast Houston, a bustling corner of the city that boasts one of the city’s most successful shopping malls. The brokerage recently closed on roughly two acres
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Jason Baker
  • property acquisitions
Mar
08
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Exclusive: See a Houston developer’s latest plans for a two-story Heights retail project

Braun Enterprises, an inner-Loop developer best known for its retail projects, is planning an ambitious two-story ground-up retail development at Shepherd Drive and West 24th Street in the Heights. The Houston-based company will build a 24,000-square-foot
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Development
Feb
13
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Houston Developers: Not All Adaptive Reuse Projects Created Equal

Adaptive reuse, or the restoration of a historic property into usable real estate, has grown in popularity among Houston developers looking for space in an increasingly dense inner Loop. But not all of these projects are
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Kenneth Katz
  • Development
Nov
04
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Here’s where Houston stands as a national retail market

The closure, bankruptcy or downsizing of several national, big box retailers has driven home the importance of retailers maintaining strong online and brick-and-mortar presences. And a recent report from FTI Consulting attempts to identify the overall
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Kenneth Katz
Sep
22
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Brokerage scoops up historic Washington Ave. building, talks renovations

A historic building in a bustling corner of Washington Avenue was scooped up by a joint venture between Houston’s Braun Enterprises and Baker Katz LLC. The two-story building, located at 1919 Washington Ave., contains 17,000 square
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Jason Baker
Mar
25
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National retailers bet on east Houston

Throughout the energy slump, retail’s remained relatively hardy. There’s still heaps of activity going on throughout Houston — take the national anchor tenant that just signed on to a 40-acre Cinco Ranch retail project or the Grand
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Jason Baker
  • Kenneth Katz
Jun
17
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Specialty brunch bistro to open in Montrose

Houston’s early risers are getting tasty incentives not to hit that snooze button. Snooze A.M. Eatery, a Denver-based breakfast and brunch restaurant, signed a lease in Montrose for a 3,723-square-foot building at 3217 Montrose Blvd., near
  • Houston Business Journal
Apr
24
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Another grocery option coming to Westchase

Trader Joe’s is planning to open its fifth Houston location at 11683 Westheimer Road, the Houston Business Journal learned, which will bring the grocer into an area that’s already heavily dotted with big-name grocery chains. The
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Jason Baker
Feb
27
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Northeast Houston’s lack of identity stymies development, experts say

When you hear “The Woodlands,” you might think the new Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) campus, which is technically in Springwoods Village, or high-end homes and retail. When you think Katy, you might think great schools
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Jason Baker
Apr
09
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Why Hispanics Are A Key Market In Houston’s Grocery Wars

If Houston retailers are going to survive the grocery store wars over the next five years, they need to start marketing and catering more to the Hispanic population, says an industry expert. In the past 14
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Jason Baker
  • Grocery
Apr
03
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Expert: Hispanic Consumers Should Be Houston Grocers’ Target

Houston retailers should target the growing Hispanic consumer population over the next five years to boost their competitiveness, minding details such as shelf height, music and other things that go beyond product selection and advertising, says
  • Houston Business Journal
  • Jason Baker
  • Grocery
  • Smartbrief