After pursuing Whole Foods for nearly two years, Lynn Davis, principal and chief marketing officer at Fidelis Realty Partners, says her plan to land the grocery powerhouse for the Grand Lakes Marketplace development in the heart of the Cinco Ranch community in Katy, Texas, finally came to fruition. “One day they picked up the phone and said that if the land was still available, they wanted to look at it,” she says. Cinco Rancho, where Whole Foods now helps anchor 130,000 square feet of retail space, has been a wonderful success. When the store opened, Davis says the line was around the building, and there wasn’t a parking space available in the entire shopping center. “The mayor was there, and it was a really neat day,” she says.
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