Two New Fast Casual Concepts Coming to Tucson

Kneader’s Bakery & Café and Raising Cane’s will be bringing two new fast casual concepts restaurants to Tucson at the southeast corner of Wilmot Road and Broadway Blvd. CVS built a new store on the hard corner in 2013 and sold 2.3 acres of excess land surrounding the CVS Pharmacy.

An affiliate of the Eisenberg Company in Phoenix (Jason Eisenberg, CCIM) purchased the 2.3 acres surrounding this corner for $1.725 million ($17 PSF) from CVS to split.

Raising Cane’s is a fast-casual restaurant specialized in chicken fingers. Founded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 2007 by Todd Graves, today there are more than 150 locations across 15 states, and 7 in metro Phoenix. The restaurant is named after Grave’s yellow Labrador, Raising Cane.

Expected to open Summer 2015, Eisenberg is developing the 4,000-square-foot Raising Cane’s on 51,162-square-feet of land facing Broadway. The remaining 49,063-square-feet of land was sold to Kneader’s developer, FFG Development of American Fork, UT for $900,000 ($18 PSF).

Kneader’s Bakery & Café will be a 3,700-square-foot built-to-suit facing Wilmot.

Kneader’s is all about breads. The concept is a European-style bakery where things are still made by hand, from simple, healthy ingredients the way it’s been done for a thousand years.

The first Kneaders opened in 1997 in Orem, UT specialized in authentic European hearth breads made fresh daily. Kneaders also offers a variety of soups, salads, sandwiches and 40-50 different pastries. Kneader’s fast-casual concept is to provide “fresh food fast”.

Kneader’s has been expanding rapidly, with 30 locations and 7 in Phoenix. The Tucson Kneader’s is also expected to open Summer 2015

Torrey Briegel and Regan Amato of Phoenix Commercial Advisors in Phoenix represented Eisenberg in both transactions.

To learn more Briegel can be reached at 602.734.7219 while Amato is at 602.288.3474.