• Endeavor Real Estate Group’s 127,500-square-foot Domain Northside will bring a host of new upscale retail to Austin when it opens this month. Culinary Dropout, Diptyque, Will Leather Goods, Warby Parker, Nordstrom and RH Restoration Hardware are among the tenants.
• Barnes & Noble will open a 9,000-square-foot bookstore/café combo at the $300 million Legacy West Urban Village, set to open later this year in Plano, Texas. The mixed-use center will also include a Dean & Deluca specialty food store. The Barnes & Noble, one of only five stores the chain is rolling out next year, is scheduled to open in March.
• Starwood Retail Partners is kicking off its $100 million renovation of Shops at Willow Bend, in Plano, Texas. Starwood bought the 15-year-old mall from Taubman Centers in 2014. The firm is demolishing the shopping center’s former Saks Fifth Avenue anchor store to make way for a pedestrian-friendly restaurant row, an office tower, a fitness club and more. The redevelopment is scheduled for completion in 2018.
• Austin, Texas–based Alamo Drafthouse will move into a former Tom Thumb store at the Skillman Abrams Shopping Center, in northeast Austin’s Lake Highlands neighborhood. The 46,000-square-foot theater will open in 2017 as part of a major redevelopment of the center that will include two eateries as well. Owner Retail Plazas plans to change the center’s name to Shops at Skillman.