BOULDER - Tundra Specialties Inc., a wholesale restaurant equipment and supply distributor, will move operations from Gunbarrel to Boulder in 2010.

Tundra signed a lease July 29 for 52,000 square feet of space at 3825 Walnut St. in Boulder and plans to move by Feb. 1. The company currently occupies two buildings on Gunpark Drive in Gunbarrel.

The company specializes in food-service equipment and parts, restaurant supplies and restaurant plumbing supplies.

Chief executive Michael Lewis founded Tundra in 1993 in Boulder with two employees and 200 equipment parts. It moved to Gunbarrel in 1999 and has grown into an international distributor of more than 10,000 stocked parts. It has about 75 employees.

Freeman Myre Inc. represented Tundra, and Fuller & Co. represented the landlord, Denver-based DPC Development Co.