EDMONDS — Behar Company purchased 6.5 acres at the southeast corner of Highway 99 and 220th in Edmonds in 2005 with a vision to recreate the land into an transit-oriented urban village called Edmonds Green.
And then the recession happened.
Plans for the Edmonds Green project have been put on hold for now, said Matt Steiner, vice president for Behar, a commercial real estate and development company.
“We’ve gradually started redoing the existing buildings on site,” Steiner said. “We’ll look to do a development in the future while watching the market and waiting.”
Two new tenants have recently rented out two buildings on the property. Harbour Freight Tools opened a store at 22111 Highway 99 about six weeks ago. It’s the second location in Snohomish County — the other is in Everett — for the chain that has 500 stores nationwide.
Harbour Freight is occupying the building formerly used by Edmonds Furniture.
Behar also is leasing a second building on the property to Boiling Point restaurant, a Taiwanese hot soup specialty restaurant with 15 locations in California, Washington and Canada. The Boiling Point restaurant opened in Seattle in 2008 and since then, the restaurant has opened other locations in Redmond and Bellevue.
The Edmonds restaurant is undergoing remodeling and should be open sometime this spring, Steiner said.
Two other existing tenants on the land are an AT&T store and the Family Fun Center, a bumper car, mini golf and arcade business.
Behar also has two more spaces available for lease on the property, one an 1,850-square-foot location and another a 4,750-foot-square foot location.
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