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A family-owned pizza spot is expanding its Birmingham footprint with a location in Vestavia. Davenport’s Pizza Palace will be coming to Vestavia City Center in a 3,800-square-foot space next to Taco Mama. The move marks a return to the area after Davenport’s last Vestavia location closed in the 1980s when its building was sold.

Crumbl Cookies and Grimaldi’s Pizzeria are opening new locations at Valley Bend at Jones Farm in Huntsville, which is managed by Birmingham-based Crawford Square Real Estate Advisors. This will be the third Crumbl location in Alabama and the first for Grimaldi’s, which first opened in Brooklyn in 1990. “The Huntsville community is quite large and quickly […]

Two new local retailers are set to open this week while a couple of others are growing their established footprint at the shopping destination.

Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams is planning to open its second location in the Birmingham area. The popular franchise will be part of Phase II of Lane Parke in Mountain Brook, according to Crawford Square Real Estate Advisors. Jeni’s first area location opened in Pepper Place last year. Founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 2002, Jeni’s has more […]

Mary Beyer Lell Principal, Crawford SquareReal Estate Advisors How did you choose the career you are in? A professor in graduate school guided me towards doing an internship in commercial real estate. I guess you could say it was luck that I was directed into a profession that I knew so little about and absolutely love. […]

A Birmingham-based full-service leasing and management company has secured a contract in one of Nashville’s fastest-growing suburbs. Crawford Square Real Estate Advisors has been selected by Heitman to manage and lease Merchant Pointe, a grocery-anchored center in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Chicago-headquartered Heitman acquired the 138,818-square-foot shopping center in 2018. Retail anchors include Aldi, Five Below, Michaels, […]