Jack Allen’s Kitchen, a food-and-beverage concept that specializes in Texas-based cuisine, has opened a 7,000-square-foot restaurant in Hutto, a northern suburb of Austin. The restaurant was built from the ground up within the 35-acre Hutto Co-Op District and will be able to house about 275 patrons between its indoor and patio dining spaces. Designtrait Architects designed the restaurant.
Jack’s Allen’s Kitchen, an Austin favorite known for its Southern comfort food with a Texas twist, is now open in Hutto.
The 7,000-square-foot restaurant is located in the emerging Hutto Co-Op District, a 35-acre mixed-use project developed by MA Partners at the historic Cooperative Gin property on U.S. 79. Also now open, adjacent to Jack Allen’s, is a new six-story parking garage with 450 spaces.
The newest Jack Allen’s Kitchen is the first of the chain’s restaurants to be built entirely from the ground up. It will be open seven days a week for lunch, dinner and brunch on weekends. The restaurant can accommodate 216 diners inside, with patio seating for 56 patrons overlooking the Co-Op District’s 4.35-acre lake and fountain.
Jack Allen’s joins Southside Market, Top Notch Burgers and other eateries as restaurant tenants.
Jack Allen’s Hutto restaurant will have new menu items and a large bar with cocktails, frozen drinks, wine and hand-selected, single-barrel bourbon from some of the best distillers in the country, according to a news release.
“The kitchen was designed with a chef’s creativity in mind, so guests can expect inspired daily specials in addition to the regular menu of tried-and-true favorites,” the release stated.
Designtrait Architects, led by principal architects and husband-and-wife team Tray Toungate and Becky Jeanes, handled the restaurant’s interior design. George Hampton is responsible for the artwork on display that captures local scenes.
The adjacent parking garage was designed by Walker Consultants and built by John King Construction.
Meanwhile, work continues on a new office and retail building in the Co-Op District. With 68,000 square feet of space, the mixed-use building will have floor-to-ceiling glass, wood soffits, decorative steel panels and about 9,800 square feet of retail on the first floor.
One office tenant has already fully leased the second and third floors, leaving 17,000 square feet of office space available to rent on the fourth floor.
The office and retail building was designed by Hip.Hop.Design Studio.
“We are thrilled to have reached this newest milestone at the Co-Op District, welcoming one of Austin’s most iconic restaurants and a stunning new parking garage that will allow for convenient parking for our many restaurant, shopping and retail attractions,” said Bob Wunsch of MA Partners. “We look forward to announcing additional restaurant and retail tenants in the near future, as well as the next phase of development for this walkable mixed-use destination.”
Along with Jack Allen’s Kitchen, Southside Market and Top Notch Burgers, here’s what’s open at the Hutto Co-Op District so far:
The Co-Op District is at the site of the original Hutto Co-Op, built in 1937 and a Hutto landmark that represents its agricultural heritage. The Co-Op District development has four grain silos that have been preserved and will tie into the project’s master plan, which calls for high-density residential, retail, entertainment, hotel, amphitheater and restaurant uses, along with a civic center and offices.
In 2018, when MA Partners LLC was starting construction on the 35-acre Hutto Co-Op District, partner Bob Wunsch said they decided the project would be phased out based on tenant demand.
A year earlier, the Carrollton-based developer entered into an agreement with the city of Hutto to turn the former agricultural site into a vibrant mixed-use district adjacent to their historic downtown. They started with a new City Hall and library, along with other public spaces. They then moved on to a wealth of retail sites that are now home to the likes of Southside Market, Top Notch Burgers and Jack Allen’s Kitchen. Visitors can now park in a new six-story garage.
While future phases are set to include more retail, multifamily elements, entertainment options and hotels, the developers pivoted to another use early in the build-out: they broke ground about a year ago on a four-story, 68,000-square-foot office building with ground-floor retail after they were approached by an unidentified Fortune 500 tenant.
It’s set to open soon, Wunsch said, and one tenant has already fully leased the second and third floors, with 17,000 square feet available on the fourth floor and 9,800 square feet of retail available on the bottom. Leases are hovering around $40 per square foot plus triple nets — higher than the market average.
“We’re pretty sure we’ll fill that up pretty quickly,” Wunsch said.
That’s quite a feat at a time when office space is going sour in Austin, but it’s part of a growing trend in Austin’s fast-growing suburbs, where cities and developers are aiming to bring more office users to serve as the catalyst for community hubs.
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