Houston-based commercial real estate firm KM Realty has announced that it has leased 1,800 square feet in the plaza at 19901 Kingsland Blvd. in Cinco Ranch near Fry Road and I-10. With the lease of the end-cap space, KM Realty reports that the plaza is now 73 percent occupied.
“Katy is home, and I knew I wanted Summer Moon to enter Houston in this high-growth area,” Ryan Richardson, Summer Moon’s Houston licensee who grew up and lives in Katy, said in a news release.
According to the release, the area’s three-mile, five-year population growth is projected at 9 percent. Richardson connected with Steven Stone, KM Realty’s director of leasing, through Chris Abel of Keller Williams, and that brought him to Kingsland Plaza.
Summer Moon is a completely wood-fired coffee shop based in Austin. It has numerous locations in central Texas. The Katy location will be the first in the greater Houston area.
“The founding family of Summer Moon wanted to bring an American authenticity to coffee that was largely missing from American coffee culture,” according to the release. “Their use of brick, fire, and oak wood to craft their custom coffee roasts maintains an element of craftsmanship to the trade and instills much-deserved pride in the family business.”
Summer Moon in Katy will reportedly receive weekly shipments of new roasts of coffee. It also serves its “Moon Milk,” which is a “proprietary blend of all-natural, unrefined sugar with subtle hints of spice, leading to menu favorites of the whole moon, half-, and quarter-moon lattes.”
“Summer Moon will be a boon to Kingsland Plaza and our portfolio of tenants,” Stone said. “At Kingsland Plaza and the other properties that we own or manage, we always strive to bring in tenants that area residents may find appealing. Kingsland Plaza has the traffic counts and morning commutes in a great area that will make Summer Moon a runaway success.”
Summer Moon is scheduled to open in November.
The first shop opened in June of 2002 in Austin. Originally a simple coffee bar, it added coffee roasting. In 2004, it began fire-roasting its coffee blends.
