The Town Center at Levis Commons is home to many successful businesses, and recently signed leases with Sephora, Clean Juice, and C. Sterling Jewelers. It now has a few select opportunities for anyone seeking to own a high-quality franchise.

Several franchisors have pre-approved the center and need a qualified operator.  A number of wellness and beauty franchisors are interested in The Town Center at Levis Commons, including salons, massage studios, and specialty fitness boutiques such as cycling, rowing, yoga, and Pilates. Ideal franchisees would have a passion for these types of business, experience in a retail business and a commitment to bringing quality services to its customers.

Aspiring restaurateurs should also be excited, as The Town Center is approved of by a slew of eateries, ranging from quick-service healthy choices to full-service sit-down restaurants.

Blo Blow Dry Bar, one of the franchisors interested in The Town Center at Levis Commons, describes their ideal franchisee as having “a strong work ethic” and “actively engaged in driving their business.” The ideal candidate “possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and the determination to succeed.”

Opening any business is overwhelming. With franchises, franchisees are guided through the companies’ business plans, which prescribes training and assistance with starting and operating a successful company. Franchisers also guide operators through marketing and promotion, management and operations, accounting and bookkeeping, customer service, and growth. When opening a franchise, no operator is alone. 

Blo Blow Dry Bar is just one of many pre-approved businesses at The Town Center at Levis Commons seeking a qualified operator. Others include Massage LuXe and Taziki’s Mediterranean Café. There is a wide variety of other businesses interested in The Town Center that could be franchised.

The Town Center at Levis Commons is the ideal location to open a new business, as it combines retail, office, multifamily residential, hotels, and entertainment. This development is unlike anything in Northwest Ohio.

There is a primary trade area population of 330,000 within close proximity to the site, with an additional 60,000 daytime employment base within a 10-minute drive. Bowling Green State University, which has an enrollment of 20,000 students, is within 10 minutes of the development.

Levis Commons is conveniently located at the intersection of State Rt. 25 and I-475 near the confluence of Interstate I-75 and nearby Ohio Turnpike. It is currently the fastest-growing interchange on the I-475 loop and offers tremendous regional access.

This location offers both well-established neighborhoods and explosive new residential development immediately surrounding the site evidenced by thousands of homes recently built or under construction and a new high school and middle school near the site.

Lifestyle and fashion co-tenancies at The Town Center include Sephora, Talbots, Loft, Brighton Collectibles, J. Jill, Chico’s, Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, Lane Bryant, Christopher & Banks, Francesca’s, New York & Co. and many others unique to the market.

The balance of the tenancy includes a highly focused blend of restaurants, lifestyle, home furnishing, and entertainment uses, including Arhaus Furniture, Ethan Allen, Biaggi’s Ristorante Italiano, Blue Pacific Grill, Clean Juice, Starbucks Coffee, Bar Louie, Books-A-Million and a state-of-the-art Cinemark Cinema.

The Town Center at Levis Commons is within walking distance of the 332-unit Preston Gardens apartments, the 252-unit Mosaic Apartments, a 180-room Hilton Garden Inn, a 112-room Holiday Inn Express & Suites, and a 105-room Home2 Suites by Hilton. ProMedica, an upscale medical office group and largest medical office employer in the market, has a 40,000 square foot building adjacent to The Town Center. O-I, one of Toledo’s three Fortune 500 companies, relocated from downtown Toledo to their new world headquarters at Levis Commons.

For information on these franchises or any questions, contact Rita Nelson at 419-376-6977 or email her at rnelson@hillpartnersinc.com or go to ShopLevisCommons.com/Franchise.

First Published January 27, 2020, 5:00 a.m.