Developers with Westwood, a real estate development company, are in the process of revamping a mixed-use building at the northeast corner of Main and Wall streets in Grapevine.

Chris Leighton, a real estate broker with Westwood, said what was once a “shabby,” run-down retail strip is being transformed into one of the most high-end buildings on the historic downtown Main Street.

“This used to be an old rinky-dink retail strip center that was built in the ’50s,” he said. “It most recently had [tenants such as] The Dance Place, Triple R Locksmith, a small art gallery and Grapevine Optical. We bought that, tore it down and replaced it with what you are seeing now.”

Named The Gallery on Main Street, Leighton said the building will host a “gallery of shops” and possibly an art gallery.

Grapevine City Council approved the two-level, 46,030-square-foot building in April 2013 after going through several rounds of approvals with the Historic Preservation Commission to ensure the building assimilated well with Main Street.

In February the building’s first tenant, Cotton Patch Cafe, opened its doors, and the second tenant, Hollywood Feed, a natural pet food store, is opening this summer.

Leighton added that although nothing is official, the first floor, which is leased to Cotton Patch Cafe and Hollywood Feed, will potentially also be leased to a restaurant, a cosmetics store, a winery or art gallery, and a high-end yoga studio.

“Nothing is solidified, but we are talking to a couple to bring an art gallery here,” he said. “And there might be room for individual artists to lease space inside of the couple’s space and create an art gallery mall.”

Leighton said developers designed the building to accommodate an art gallery.

“We don’t know for sure if we are going to get an art gallery, but we built a small room with a big glass window facing the common area that would be for art display,” he said. “It would have a wall with oil paintings and a pedestal with a sculpture and whatever else the artist wanted to display so that people walking outside can look inside the window and see art.”

“We are the only place on Main Street that has a place where you can pull off of the street and park and valet,” he said. “I really think this is going to be the place to be when  it opens."

–Chris Leighton, Westwood real estate broker

The building’s second level is designated for traditional office space as well as prefinished smaller office spaces called pods.

Leighton said the building’s first office tenant, Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture, which designed the $30.1 million REC of Grapevine, is moving its Dallas operations to the building in July.

“This [office space] is going to be very high-end,” he said. “There is going to be a fireplace, and a coffee and espresso bar with four plasma TVs right above it.”

He added the second floor will also contain the future restaurant’s patio.

“We are going to have a patio for the restaurant overlooking Main Street,” he said. “Also there’s an internal stairwell that has access to the outside, so if you are walking up and down the sidewalk on Main Street you can come straight up to the restaurant’s bar without having to come inside [the restaurant]—and there’s also an elevator.”

The development also features a three-car valet drop off.

“We are the only place on Main Street that has a place where you can pull off of the street and park and valet,” he said. “I really think this is going to be the place to be when  it opens.”