/PRNewswire/ R.J. Brunelli & Co., LLC today announced that it recently completed six leases for retail sites in northern, central and southern New Jersey..
Chipotle included the drive-thru lanes at 100 of the some 160 restaurants it opened last year. It ended 2020 with Chipotlanes at 170 of its more than 2,750 locations.
The Chipotlanes boost customer access and convenience while also helping increase new restaurant sales, margins, and returns, Chipotle said last month in announcing financial results for 2020.
The firm noted digital sales grew by almost 175 percent last year and accounted for 46.2 percent of all sales.
Chipotle posted annual sales of $6 billion, up by 7.1 percent from 2019. It said net income climbed more than 5 percent to $355.8 million.
The chain expects to open about 200 restaurants this year. Each location typically employs about 25 workers, the company says.
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The complex also is adding three new outparcel tenants in the parking lot.
The first of those tenants, a Chase Bank office, opened in December, and a Chipotle is nearing completion, said Maria Pace, a Brixmor spokesperson. We look forward to sharing the third outparcel tenant once the lease is finalized, she said Friday.
Additional changes, including facade renovations and lighting upgrades, are scheduled for this summer.
Brixmor described the occupants of the former Kmart, which closed in 2018, as junior anchors at the center.
Big Lots is the largest of the three, occupying about 40,000 square feet. That compares to about 25,000 square feet for the Lidl supermarket and 22,000 square feet for Ross.