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Fort Worth's WestBend center scoops location of buzzy ice cream concept

Van Leeuwen's new location opens in WestBend.

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The WestBend mixed-use development in Fort Worth's University District is booming, and now there's a slew of new shops and businesses lined up to join the mix, dishing out ice cream, healthy food, burgers, window treatments, and more.

According to a release, developer/operator Trademark Property Company has signed the following new tenants:

Sweetgreen, fast-casual restaurant focused on salads. Opening: later this year.
Van Leeuwen, New York-based ice cream company that makes dairy and especially ice creams, opening its first store in Fort Worth. Opening: November.
The Shade Store, custom window treatment company specializing in luxury textiles and interior design, is currently under construction. Opening: later this year.
Shake Shack, burger chain with crinkle fries, is opening what will be its second location in Fort Worth. Opening: later this year.
Quince, award-winning global culinary restaurant founded in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where it's been proclaimed the "No. 1 Rooftop Restaurant in the World," is opening its very first location in the U.S. Construction is underway. Opening: late fall.
Rowan, ear-piercing company, opening its first store in Texas at WestBend. Open: now.
Karl’s Fishing & Outdoors, which opened earlier this summer, digitally native brand opening its first physical store at WestBend. Open: now.

These newcomers will bring occupancy at the center to 99 percent.

They'll join tenants such as Drybar, Dear Hannah, Pressed Juicery, Woodhouse Day Spa, SusieCakes, Ascension Coffee, and Warby Parker, which recently expanded. WestBend is also home to the first brick-and-mortar store of men’s lifestyle brand, johnnie-O.

Trademark CEO Terry Montesi says in a statement that this underscores WestBend's role as a walkable urban center with retail, restaurant, and office space in Fort Worth's University District.

“One of Trademark's values is to be extraordinary stewards by elevating places, and that is the posture we’ve taken in the evolution of WestBend," Montesi says. "With an interesting tenant mix and many only-in-Fort-Worth locations, we enhanced WestBend and brought a renaissance to the mixed-use development to complement Fort Worth’s already successful University District."

Other properties in Trademark’s portfolio include Galleria Dallas, Alliance Town Center in Fort Worth, Market Street - The Woodlands in The Woodlands, and La Palmera Mall in Corpus Christi.

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Doughnut News

Luscious doughnut shop Duck Donuts makes Fort Worth debut

Photo courtesy of Visit Addison

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A decadent new doughnut shop is coming to Fort Worth: Duck Donuts, a North Carolina-based chain known for serving doughnuts made to order, will open a shop at 6387 Camp Bowie Blvd. #A within the Ridglea Plaza Shopping Center in Fort Worth.

According to a release, the shop will open on Saturday December 21 at 7 am.

Duck Donuts opened its first locations in 2007 in the beach resort towns of Duck and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with the intention to create an oasis for vacationers. They're now headquartered in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and began franchising in 2013, with more than 150 locally owned and operated shops across 26 states and international locations. There was previously a DFW location in Addison on Belt Line Road that opened in 2020 but it did not survive the pandemic.

The Fort Worth shop is owned and operated by husband-and-wife Justin and Morgan Thomas.

“We are delighted to be opening in Fort Worth,” Justin says in a statement. “The community has been patiently waiting for us to open our doors, and now we cannot wait to sprinkle happiness to all with our warm, delicious and made-to-order doubhnuts.”

The 1,035-square-foot shop reflects the franchise’s reimagined design which gives a modern twist on their iconic beach theme and family-friendly atmosphere. Upon entering the store, customers are greeted by the aroma of warm, light vanilla cake doughnuts.

Customers can create their own combination by choosing from coatings, toppings, and drizzles, including traditional favorites such as chocolate icing with sprinkles and more adventurous creations such as maple icing with bacon.

Key to their appeal is the viewing area where children and adults alike can watch their doughnuts being made.

Many of their flavors have a beachy theme such as the Beach, a cake doughnut with vanilla icing dusted with cinnamon sugar; the Sunrise with lemon icing and raspberry drizzle; and the Beach Ball with vanilla icing, rainbow sprinkles, and chocolate drizzle.

They rotate in seasonal offerings such as the current lineup of mint-flavored flavors including chocolate icing with mint buttercream. The doughnuts themselves are limited to vanilla and chocolate cake; the flavors come primarily from icing.

In addition to doughnuts, the Fort Worth location will serve coffee, doughnut breakfast sandwiches, doughnut sundaes — in which a doughnut is topped with ice cream and syrup — plus frozen beverages and milkshakes.

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