Trinity Development chooses GreenbergFarrow to design 550,000 s/f retail

GreenbergFarrow, has been designated by Trinity Development Group to design the Stockyards on St. Clair, a new, 550,000 s/f retail project that will revitalize a long-underutilized T community. Scheduled to open in 2012 on a site that formerly housed the Toronto stockyards and a number of food-processing plants, the redevelopment will serve as the lynchpin in the ongoing gentrification of the surrounding community. The 20-acre rebuilding initiative will take advantage of the newly completed, city-sponsored reconstruction of St. Clair Ave., which includes a trolley line link to downtown Toronto as well as an enhanced pedestrian streetscape. "We are gratified to have been selected by Trinity Development Group to take on this exciting and transformative urban revitalization project," said John Clifford, principal of planning at GreenbergFarrow. "Our company has decades of experience in designing large-scale and complex urban retail projects. We look forward to helping to create a dynamic new retail asset for the greater Toronto community." The design breaks a former "superblock" into a network of private streets that provide vehicular and pedestrian pathways, in addition to extensive and active retail street frontage. The new street grid will connect the new commercial node with parks, residential properties and transit stops surrounding the area. Two levels of junior anchor and small retail will be serviced by two three-level parking garages. With a special focus on large and complicated urban retail projects that require expertise in urban planning, GreenbergFarrow has designed more than 6.6 million s/f of retail space in New York City. The company also has an extensive portfolio of retail and mixed-use projects throughout the United States.