Häagen-Dazs will be expanding its Long Island footprint with a new location in South Huntington.
The ice cream retail chain leased a 1,400-square-foot space in the Huntington Shopping Center at 350 Walt Whitman Road. The new ice cream shop is expected to open this fall.
The new location in the Huntington Shopping Center will be the 11th Häagen-Dazs store on Long Island.
Founded in 1960 by Reuben and Rose Mattus, Häagen-Dazs opened its first retail store in Brooklyn in 1976. The ice cream maker was acquired by Pillsbury in 1983 and the company was subsequently owned by a few corporations, including Nestlé and General Mills. Häagen-Dazs, which now has more than 900 stores worldwide, is currently part of the English ice cream conglomerate Froneri.
Raj Whadwa of Global Realty Services USA represented Häagen-Dazs, while Joe Byrnes served as in-house representative for the landlord, Federal Realty Investment Trust, in the South Huntington lease transaction.
Häagen-Dazs is the latest in a slew of new tenant signings at the 21-acre Huntington Shopping Center, which has undergone an extensive $75 million reboot designed by SBLM Architects that included three new buildings and the redevelopment of three existing buildings. The new tenants at the 217,000-square-foot center tenant include Whole Foods Market, REI, The Container Store, WIlliams-Sonoma, J. Crew, Just Salad, Burger Village and more.
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