Cajun seafood restaurant Hook & Reel has signed a 15-year lease for 5,656 square feet at Concourse Plaza, with construction to begin in the next few months. The Cajun eatery will be situated on the ground floor next to anchor tenant Food Bazaar Supermarket.
Hook & Reel promotes hospitality and shared meals. The restaurant offers a variety of build-your-own seafood-boil options featuring crawfish, lobster tail and snow crab, as well as catfish sliders, seafood po’ boys, hush puppies and paella. The Maryland-headquartered establishment originally opened in 2015 and now operates 42 locations in 22 states across the country.
“The leasing of a second restaurant location for this tenant in the same center, even during the COVID-19 pandemic indicates the strength of the shopping center, serving both the densely populated community and the neighboring court house,” said Randall Briskin, vice president of leasing at The Feil Organization, the center’s owner and manager. Briskin and Nicholas Dries represented both the tenant and The Feil Organization in the transaction.
The 311,650-square-foot multi-use Concourse Plaza is located just off of Grand Concourse, which connects Manhattan and the northern Bronx. The center is adjacent to the two million-square-foot Bronx County Court House and Bronx Municipal Building, and is four blocks from Yankee Stadium. Feil completed an $18 million renovation of the center in 2016, which included a renovation of the 51,680 square foot Food Bazaar, one of the largest grocery stores in the Bronx, and the complete repositioning of the shopping center which included a façade renovation and the re-tenanting of the center with prominent retailers such as Kidstown and Rainbow Stores. Concourse Plaza’s current tenant roster also includes Blink Fitness, Hibachi Grill, CVS, Santander, and Bank of America.
