Buffalo Wild Wings, L.A. Fitness eye Glendale Marketplace

L.A. Fitness and a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant will be setting up shop in the Glendale Marketplace, which has seen several businesses close. However, their grand openings likely won’t happen until the end of next year.

The gym is moving into the second-story, 35,700-square-foot space vacated by Galaxy Theatres over the summer, according to the shopping center’s owner, Dallas-based Cypress Equities.

Buffalo Wild Wings, part of a chain of restaurants across the country, is slated to move into a 6,000-square-foot spot on the ground floor.

Grand openings for the new tenants are forecast for late 2015, said Kristina Trujillo, corporate portfolio marketing director for the company.

But once they do open for business, they will provide “destination uses,” said Philip Lanzafame, the city’s economic development director.

“They are demonstrating Glendale is a strong market that will bring people from outside the city and outside the area to the location,” he said.

The most recent store to open in the Marketplace was DSW Shoes, which took over space long occupied by Old Navy.

Despite new tenants in the pipeline, the shopping center still has several gaps to fill.

The 35,000-square-foot space last leased by Bed Bath and Beyond is still vacant, while a handful of smaller ground-floor units remain shuttered.

While it could be at least another year before Buffalo Wild Wings and the new L.A. Fitness location come to town, a new eatery is expected to open next month just south of the Marketplace.

Guppy House, an Asian fusion-cuisine restaurant with several locations in the San Gabriel Valley, will open early next month at 152 S. Brand Blvd., formerly Pho Citi.