The roughly $22 million Farmers Park development is scheduled for completion in November.
Rendering provided by HUFFT PROJECTS
Restaurant, salon sign on at Farmers Park
Geoff Pickle
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The owners of Metropolitan Grill and Studio 417 have signed on to lease space at Farmers Park, a roughly $22 million mixed-use development under way in southeast Springfield.
Metropolitan Grill Matt O'Reilly, who is developing Farmers Park along with the silent partners of Green Circle Projects LLC, said Metropolitan Grill owners Pat and Jennifer Grace-Duran signed a long-term lease to occupy roughly 8,000 square feet of the development's 42,000-square-foot office building. O'Reilly declined to disclose lease terms.
He said the restaurant would operate a rooftop bar and a ground floor restaurant and patio in the building built to Leadership in Energy and Design-Silver standards.
O'Reilly said Metropolitan Grill likely would open by November, when the full 156,000-square-foot Farmers Park is scheduled for completion.
The Durans operate Metropolitan Grill at 2931 E. Battlefield Road.
Studio 417 Paul and Hannah Catlett, who own Studio 417 at 444 W. McDaniel St., are opening their second salon and a new barber shop concept, O'Reilly said.
Declining to disclose lease terms or square footage, O'Reilly said Studio 417 and Hudson Hawk: Barber & Shop are opening in separate spaces, in two buildings of the development.
Farmers Park is a sustainable mixed-use community and retail development centering around Farmers Market of the Ozarks. The development - located in the Shoppes at James River along East Republic Road - is bookended by Hilton Garden Inn and Houlihan's restaurant, both developed by O'Reilly's cousin Tim O'Reilly.
The project is designed with 58 apartments, an interactive public space, a plaza and a garden space, according to Jeffrey Kloch of Kansas-City based project architect Hufft Projects.
O'Reilly said about 60 percent of the development's retail space is committed to lease to local tenants, but he declined to name others.
Springfield Business Journal reporter Brian Brown contributed to this story.[[In-content Ad]]
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