Editor’s note: This story has been corrected since original publication. An earlier version stated there are 300 condos in Perkins Rowe. There are 88. Daily Report regrets the error.
A new sporting goods store, sunglasses shop, hair salon and hair restoration clinic are all set to open in the coming months at Perkins Rowe, where 88 new apartments were also recently completed and are now available for lease.
The largest of the new tenants is Auburn, Alabama-based Kinnucan’s Specialty Outfitters, which will open its first Louisiana location in a 10,400-square-foot space in Perkins Rowe. Donna Taylor, senior vice president of asset management and new business for Stirling Properties, which handles leasing and management at Perkins Rowe, says the store should be open by next April. Kinnucan’s currently has 13 stores in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee, according to the company’s website.
Shades Sunglasses and Casual Apparel will be the first of the four new tenants to open when it moves into about 3,000 square feet of space next to Kendra Scott Jewelry sometime next month, Taylor says. It will be the first Baton Rouge location for the Orange Beach, Alabama-based company, which has seven other locations in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi, alongside its Lafayette store.
Drybar, meanwhile, will open in December in a roughly 1,900-square-foot space that will house 13 styling chairs. The Baton Rouge location also will be a first in Louisiana for the rapidly expanding Irvine, California-based company, which is planning on opening 11 more locations by the end of year across the country. It will have more than 50 locations following the openings.
Also joining Perkins Rowe next year will be Hair Club, which will open its second hair restoration clinic in the state in a roughly 2,000-square-foot space above California Pizza Kitchen in January, Taylor says. Hair Club’s other Louisiana clinic is located in New Orleans.
“After we get these four tenants in, we should be close to the 87% mark” for total retail occupancy in Perkins Rowe, Taylor says. “We still have some retail space available, but we feel like once we get these in then we’re going to be in good shape to bring some additional tenants in.”
Taylor says interest has been strong in the 88 new apartments that also recently came online at Perkins Rowe. The addition of the one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments brings to about 300 the total number of apartments in the development. Another 88 condos are also located at Perkins Rowe, of which about 60% are sold, Taylor says.
—Steve Sanoski
