Welcome to Inked, a column that notes some of the week’s commercial real estate transactions and updates in the greater Memphis area that may have gone unnoticed.

A Great Massage expand in Collierville 

A local massage therapy business will move from a 1,800-square-foot space to a 2,200-square-foot Collierville location at 777 W. Poplar Ave. 

A Great Massage signed a 7.5-year lease at the 9,500-square-foot Byhalia Crossing Shopping Center, making the retail center 100% leased.

Barry Maynard and Frank Dyer, both senior vice presidents at Gill Properties, represented the business owner and the land owner, American Properties Co., an affiliate of Bartlett-based Underberg Property Management, in the lease. 

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Business owner Juan-Hong Chen expects the new business location to open later this year. 

Chen moved the business from 875 W. Poplar Ave., across the street from the new location. Maynard and Dyer are helping Chen expand A Great Massage across the Mid-South. Chen also owns two I Love Pho locations at 567 Perkins Extended and 1710 Union Ave.

“I’m just excited to see Memphis people like (Chen) continue to invest and open up more stores,” Maynard said. “You have him that’s not only invested in one and two and three, but continues to invest because he sees Memphis is such an unbelievable opportunity and a great market.”

A Great Massage has two locations in Virginia and seven locations in the Memphis area, including Midtown, Downtown and Germantown. 

Germantown office space sold

A local design company bought a 2,100-square-foot office building at 2101 Merchants Row for $280,000. 

Organizational design company Trazo Design, through affiliate 5Vines, bought the Germantown site for the company’s new office. 

Eric Fuhrman of Crye-Leike Commercial represented Trazo Design and the seller, Pentad Group Real Estate, in the transaction. 

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Fuhrman said Trazo Design founder Clare Richardson will redevelop the building to create the Germantown headquarters for her company. 

“It’s going to be amazing when they’re done,” Fuhrman said. “It’s really a complement to what goes on there.”

Pentad Group, led by Alan Reese, bought the property, built in 1970, in 1996 for $120,000, according to records with the Shelby County Register of Deeds. 

The first floor features a reception area, break room, restroom and stairs down to three bays for storage, workspaces or expansion. The property also includes a vehicle access and equipment delivery door. 

The Shelby County assessor of property appraised the site for $220,600 this year.

Cordova apartments sold for $41.6 million

Manufacturing company buys Memphis facility 

A global adhesive manufacturing company bought the 59,100-square-foot building at 4079 Senator St. for $1.1 million. 

Henkel U.S. Operations Corp., a part of Germany-based Henkel, bought the site that it has operated in since 1972. 

Laurence Streuli, longtime owner of the site, bought the property in 1976 for $210,000, according to deed records. 

Henkel’s Memphis site has about 40 employees who work the three manufacturing and packaging lines for the company’s Technomelt brand. 

The Shelby County assessor of property appraised the site for $687,500 this year.