{"id":8958,"date":"2020-10-16T15:39:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T15:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/?p=8958"},"modified":"2024-06-21T14:52:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T14:52:48","slug":"hot-box-cookies-sweetens-up-st-louis-with-fourth-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/2020\/hot-box-cookies-sweetens-up-st-louis-with-fourth-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Box Cookies Sweetens Up St. Louis With Fourth Location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Original Article By: <a class=\"u-link u-link-color\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/stlouis\/bio\/34102\/Steph+Kukuljan\" rel=\"author\" data-ct=\"APT: Reporter byline name\">Steph Kukuljan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/stlouis\/news\/2020\/10\/16\/hot-box-cookies.html?cx_testId=40&amp;cx_testVariant=cx_5&amp;cx_artPos=4#cxrecs_s\">St. Louis Business Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hot-Box-Cookies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hot-Box-Cookies.jpg 562w, https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hot-Box-Cookies-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hot Box Cookies has signed a lease for its fourth St. Louis-area location.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Louis-based dessert brand will open at Plaza Shops in Creve Coeur at 701-747 North New Ballas Road, off Olive Boulevard and Interstate 270. It&#8217;s leased 1,400 square feet of space and the store could open by Christmas, depending on city permits, said CEO Ryan Rich.<\/p>\n<p>It will be Hot Box&#8217;s fourth St. Louis location and its six overall. It has locations in Clayton; Central West End; Tower Grove South; Lawrence, Kansas; and Columbia, Missouri, where it first launched in 2008. The brand is also planning a location in Kirkwood, as well as expansion into Illinois next year.<br \/>\nHot Box Cookies was represented by Rick Spector of L3 Corp. in the lease. Pace Properties&#8217; Kate Grewe and Elizabeth Schenk represented the landlord, CH Retail Fund I\/St. Louis Plaza Shops LLC.<\/p>\n<p>The retail market in St. Louis reported a 4.5% vacancy rate in the second quarter of 2020 as nearly 148,000 square feet of available space came back on the market. Meanwhile the mid-St. Louis County retail market reported a 2.3% vacancy rate with almost 28,000 square feet of space vacated in the second quarter. Lease rates averaged $20.21 per square foot in mid county and $12.96 per square foot overall in the region, according to Newmark Grubb Zimmer research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original Article By: Steph Kukuljan, St. Louis Business Journal Hot Box Cookies has signed a lease for its fourth St. Louis-area location. The St. Louis-based dessert brand will open at Plaza Shops in Creve Coeur at 701-747 North New Ballas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":8959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[59,23,25,502,27],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hot-Box-Cookies.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJlAd-2ku","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8961,"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958\/revisions\/8961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}