Current/Past Projects

Projects

Lucky 5-12, American Tobacco Factory, Durham, North Carolina

Eckstut Consulting was hired by the developer to find an entrepreneurial fine dining chef for a start-up restaurant as part of the developer’s goal of creating quality restaurant anchors in this restored and newly developed, mixed-use former tobacco factory campus.

Everyman Jazz Bistro, American Locomotive Works, Providence, R. I.

Eckstut is helping this start-up restaurant with construction and leasing agreements. The goal is to get a “B” location restaurant up and running and to create a mainstay in the restored old factory campus.

Macaro’s Deli and Catering, Pennsauken, New Jersey

Eckstut is consulting with the owners of this long established business to increase sales, reduce costs and work with government agencies to improve the quality of life for customers of the Westfield Avenue Main Street. Improvements to the interior and exterior is increasing business as well as increasing the property value.

Tsang Kee Duck and Noodle House, Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Eckstut Consulting is coordinating the acquisition of 12,000 square foot property with a 5,000 square foot restaurant footprint, through the courts..

Trilogy Jazz Restaurant, West Philadelphia, PA

Eckstut Consulting was hired by a redevelopment agency to coordinate and guide the conversion of a long-standing family tavern to a new jazz-oriented fine dining restaurant, an anchor to the rapidly evolving Lancaster Avenue Business District in West Philadelphia. The job entailed in part: a preliminary assessment, planning and development in collaboration with owners (culminating in the creation of a business plan), working with funding construction agencies, coordinating participating professionals in all aspects of the development and operations -legal, architectural, design, banking, operations, etc.