A popular boutique with stores in Austin and Houston will open in Dallas later this year.
Kick Pleat, an upscale brand focusing on artful, inspired womenswear, will have a standalone 3,992-square-foot storefront at 4710 W. Lover’s Lane. Items on the store’s website retail from $321 for a pair of jeans to $555 for a black mock-neckline shirt.
The brand opened its flagship Austin store in 2003 and expanded to Houston in 2016. The Dallas store seemed like a natural next move, said Kick Pleat Director of Stores Jessica Kerndt, who added that the brand has a lot of existing Dallas clients.
The area, which neighbors Dallas-Love Field Airport and University Park, has seen several retail developments in recent years. A 260 Sample Sale store opened last month to much fanfare in the nearby Inwood Village shopping center, and four shops squeezed onto Lover’s Lane — a busy shopping corridor dubbed the “miracle mile” — last year.
The new Kick Pleat store, located down the road from the Inwood Village shopping center, will renovate the building currently housing a chocolate shop per a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The chocolate store, JK Chocolate, is moving into a larger storefront in Preston Forest shopping center, according to their website.
“We’re going to do a new build-out,” Kerndt said. “So it’ll be very much our own, and we’re just really excited about being in that location because of the other businesses and community there.”
What especially stood out about the standalone storefront, Kerndt said, was the amount of parking available. There are about 16 designated parking spots for the building, she said.
The City of Dallas is considering eliminating parking minimums that have influenced commercial and retail planning. Currently, grocery and retail stores are required to build one parking spot per 200 to 300 square feet, a rule that Kick Pleat’s ratio fits into.
Management hopes to open the store in November, which is around the time for holiday shopping.