The falafel, gyro bowls, and feta fries that Keller diners were promised are no longer coming. Gyro360 owner Pete Ahmeti has confirmed his Mediterranean chain will not open its planned location at 1637 Keller Parkway, scrapping an expansion the city had publicly welcomed just months earlier.
Ahmeti told Community Impact by email that he no longer plans to bring Gyro360 to Keller, closing the book on a project the City of Keller had announced back in December 2025 as a coming tenant of the Keller Commons shopping center. The fast-casual concept, which already operates in Denton and Flower Mound, was expected to serve its signature falafels, gyro bowls and feta fries at the new multi-tenant building alongside anchor tenant Glo Tanning.
A Shopping Center Still Taking Shape
Keller Commons itself was years in the making. The city’s Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council approved a Specific Use Permit back in November 2024, clearing the way for Glo Tanning to anchor a 3,203-square-foot spa suite on the 1.04-acre site, according to City of Keller records. Glo Tanning is relocating down the road from its current suite at 940 Keller Parkway, a Kroger-anchored center it currently shares with tenants like Aspire Allergy & Sinus.
By this summer, real estate records described the finished project as a 7,575-square-foot street-retail center built on 1.2 acres with 40 parking spaces, per CommercialSearch listings. The corridor it sits on is no quiet side street — Waypoint Real Estate Advisors filings put daily traffic along that stretch of Keller Parkway at an estimated 37,357 vehicles, underscoring why the location drew interest from a growing restaurant brand in the first place.
Ahmeti Doesn't Say Why
Ahmeti has not publicly detailed the exact reasons behind pulling out of the deal. What's left behind is a 1,553-square-foot first-floor end-cap unit on the building's east side, and vacancy listings show it already comes with a pre-designed placeholder for a grease trap, meaning the plumbing groundwork for a food-service tenant is already in place.
The commercial terms attached to the property weren't cheap. Marketing materials advertised space at Keller Commons for $36 per square foot in base rent plus $11 per square foot in NNN charges, totaling $45 per square foot annually, with a five-year minimum lease term, according to the same Waypoint Real Estate Advisors listing. A $40-per-square-foot tenant improvement allowance was also on the table for qualified leases, per that listing.
Gyro360's Reach Beyond Keller
Gyro360 first opened at 311 E. Hickory St. in Denton before founder Pete Ahmeti expanded to a second location at 4610 Long Prairie Road in Flower Mound in February 2022, a move the Cross Timbers Gazette reported came after strong customer traffic from Flower Mound diners driving to the Denton shop. Online ordering menus for those existing locations list prices from $10.99 for original gyro wraps up to $18.99 for specialty meat bowls, with topped feta fries running $12.99, according to the chain's DoorDash listings. The brand's website, gyro360tx.com, still lists only the Denton and Flower Mound addresses.
Keller's Restaurant Rotation Continues
The cancelled opening lands amid a wave of dining changeovers along Keller Parkway. Hoodline previously reported on Acquario's pizza spinoff taking over the former Maple Street Biscuit Co. space at 967 Keller Parkway, and on Eagle Tavern's smash-burger debut at 721 Keller Parkway, Hoodline reported. Those openings, paired with April's arrival of a Wagyu-focused burger concept, show a corridor where restaurant space keeps turning over even as one high-profile deal falls through.
For now, the end-cap unit at Keller Commons sits ready for its next occupant, grease trap and all. Whether another Mediterranean concept, a burger brand, or something else entirely claims the spot remains an open question, but the traffic counts and built-in food-service infrastructure make it one of the more turnkey vacancies on the strip.
