464 E Bullard Ave, Bullard Village Shopping Center. It’s on Bullard, just east of Fresno (not on the corner). It’s two buildings in a T shape– a building perpendicular to Bullard, and a building parallel to Bullard at the back. It looks quite new, and is mostly empty for now. Against Bullard is Jiffy Mart Liquor, at the other end of that building is PC Club, with vacancies between. The back building parallels Bullard, with an attractive fountain/statue centered on the building. Only a karate school is in this building, at the left end.
The individual spaces in this building are too small– around 1050 SF apiece. (About 20′ wide x 45′ deep.) Which makes two just about ideal– and there are lots of side by spaces available.
This complex looks good. The neighbors aren’t high rent, so hopefully they’re not asking crazy prices. Leasing by Commercial West.
The next most promising space is Mission Village, just off 41 at the south-west corner of Shaw and Fresno. (Across the street from Fashion Fair.) The best space is the former Kenpo Karate at 373 W. Shaw. The real estate agent wrote back with the asking price, but emphasized that the price isn’t in concrete– we can negotiate. It’s 2100 SF. Leasing by Mark Saito.
Two doors down is 377, a former Awakenings Salon and Spa. It is larger, 2740 SF– probably too large to make work at expected prices. There would also be some demolition– on the right side is 8-10′ offices. At the rear it looks like some office/storage space is set off.
My camera died at 385. It’s a long narrow space, about 18’x60′, which is probably at the low end of what we’re looking for. (It might be 1400 SF?)
Those two locations are both promising. I like the Karate Space at Mission Village, and the idea of the 103/104 spaces at Bullard and Fresno. Mission Village may have some issues with parking– it’s a lot of restaurants, so their hours match hours rather than freeing spaces at 5 pm. At 1 pm, even with the four stores along the back empty, there wasn’t a large expanse of free parking.
Below are the “needs a little work”, or less immediately appealing spaces.
Barstow and First, South West Corner. (Headliner shopping center.) This is diagonal from Hoover High.
In the L shaped building behind the Vallero gas station are several shops, including my hair cutter and a greek grocery store. At the east end, along First, is an endcap space, 777H. At first glance it is well divided– but it’s actually strongly asymmetrical thanks to the offices along the back and left edge. We would either have L shaped gaming (along the back and right), or have to remove all of the walls for a better division. Pacing, the store seems to be 45′ wide x 36′ deep. Click through for captions describing the pictures.
Across the parking lot on the same corner is Blackjack Meat Market– a store that never opened. That space will also be available soon– and, because they were working inside, I was able to take pictures from inside. I think this space is something like 27′ wide x 45′ deep.
Dad and I revisited the north west corner of Fresno and Shaw– the corner with World of Baseball. (The Gallery Plaza [PDF].) We liked the look of Suites 115/116, currently combined into Xpress Gym. It’s about 30′ wide– but, deceptively, is almost 90′ deep. I loved the current division, but suspect it’s just too much space. I mentioned putting in a permanent partition along the current divider– basically returning it to suites 115 and 116 and just renting half. Dad didn’t like it (and I agreed)– it’d be too dark in the back half of the store.
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On reviewing the PDF, it looks like the space is 2906 SF.
On the same corner is 350 E Shaw, the former Rochester’s Big and Tall. It’s huge… but might have potential if we hived off the eastern half. It’s about 48′ deep by 105′ wide; if we took the eastern 40′ or so, it’d be a good size. That would mean cutting it off just to the right of the security grating in the 6th picture. There is also the former changing room cube cutting out the back of the store to deal with. (We might extend the R changing room partition forward as the divide between retail and gaming.)
Barstow and Cedar, north west corner. Diagonal from FSU. Bulldog Plaza [PDF], pretty pictures, no prices. Former CVIP.net and Piece of Cake, Between China Station and University Bookstore. Blinds covered half CVIP the space, and I didn’t take pictures of Piece of Cake. Internally, there are a lot of partition walls running through the place– there would be a lot of demo to make it work. In pictures it’s hard to see, but the space extends pretty deep. And the picture is of only half the space– beyond the left partition was about an equal amount of additional space, all behind blinds.
