Staples Leases 23,880-SF at Westwood Town Center

SEATTLE-Office supply retailer Staples has leased a portion of the former Ernst Hardware building at the Westwood Town Center shopping mall at the southern end of West Seattle. Staples leased 44,000 sf at the mall, which is located at 2501 Southwest Trenton St.

Staubach Retail Services’ Rolland Jones and John Dunton represented Staples, as they do all over the Northwest. The duo has handled leases or land sales for 33 new Staples stores in the past five years. “We’re trying to finish up our expansion in the Puget Sound area right now,” Dunton tells GlobeSt.com. “We’re looking for sites.”

Dunton tells GlobeSt.com that the retail market in the Puget Sound region is stable, with low vacancy for shop spaces and virtually no vacancy in big-box spaces. Rather than lots of new development, there is a lot of remodeling and expanding of existing malls going on at the moment, says Dunton.