New Leases Push Shackleford Crossings Occupancy to 80 Percent

Our west Little Rock bureau reports a string of new retail doings at Shackleford Crossings.

First up: a 14,000-SF Jo-Ann Fabric & Craft store to be built next door to Haverty’s on the west side of the project.

Others are a 5,916-SF HobbyTown USA, a 4,000-SF Sprint store and a 1,600-SF Scottrade branch.

These leases push occupancy at the lifestyle portion of the project to about 80 percent.

Deals for three of the project’s five remaining outparcels also are in the works. The players are BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse, LongHorn Steakhouse and Chuck E. Cheese’s.