Congratulations to MAJ Development on being recognized as Best in Business for the 10th year! This remarkable achievement reflects our deep-rooted knowledge of the area and our unwavering commitment to delivering exceptional service to our clients. We are proud to continue setting the standard for excellence in our industry, always striving to provide the highest level properties with our continued professionalism.
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who voted for us – your support and trust mean the world to us. Here’s to many more years of success and continued dedication!
We’d like to thank everyone who voted MAJ Development Corporation as the best commercial real estate developer of 2023 in the Vancouver Business Journal. This is MAJ’s 9th Best in Business award, and it is always an honor.
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EAST BREMERTON — A new grocery store and three chain restaurants are planned for a longtime Wheaton Way shopping complex being rebranded as Bremerton Station.
MAJ Development Corporation, of Vancouver, Wash., purchased the complex and its parking lots, at Wheaton’s intersection with Riddell Road, in December for $12.5 million, according to the Kitsap County Treasurer’s Office.
The company’s plans for 2022 include a Chipotle and MOD Pizza at the corner of an intersection it notes carries more than 80,000 cars each day, not far from a number from where a combined 700 apartment units are under construction. It hopes to open a Wendy’s Restaurant south of the other two in 2023.
“From what we’ve seen, a lot of people are moving to Bremerton,” said Kristin M. Ashenfelter, the project’s manager. “It seems to be more affordable than some of the surrounding cities and the commute across the water to Seattle is very reasonable with the express ferry system. Wheaton Way SR-303 is heavily traveled, and retailers want that visibility for their business.”
The company also says it has a tenant to fill a 23,000-square-foot grocery store in between the existing Wilco Farm Store and Planet Fitness but has not yet made public the identity of the grocer. Other spaces in the same building remain vacant.
Kelli Lambert, a senior planner with the city of Bremerton, said the company met with city officials for what’s known as a pre-submittal conference in early November. No permits for work on the site have yet been issued.
The company purchased the complex, on the city of Bremerton’s northern border, from the Zarelli family, which developed the long-running Merit Mart store more than 55 years ago. The commercial corridor looked to become Kitsap County’s new retail center in the late 1970s, when developer Ron Ross pushed to develop a mall on Clare’s Marsh, a wetland near the intersection there. But pressure from the existing downtown Bremerton landlords pushed Ross to scrap the project; eventually, a mall came to Kitsap, but it was built in Silverdale.
Josh Farley is a reporter covering the military and Bremerton for the Kitsap Sun. He can be reached at 360-792-9227, josh.farley@kitsapsun.com or on Twitter at @joshfarley.
