- July 23, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Our roundup of the latest Wellesley, Mass., business news:
Plans for ex-Gap space
Property manager Linear Retail’s team presented their vision for 74 Central St., the former Gap space in Wellesley Square, during this past week’s Design Review Board meeting (first presenter on Wellesley Media recording). The aim is to divvy the top floor in 3 and have another tenant on the bottom floor, but the property manager wants to stay flexible, and if a tenant wants 2 portions instead of 1, it’s open to that.
The hope is to hook a restaurant, and apparently several have been sniffing around, as a tenant at the corner. A terrace would support outdoor dining.
Discussion swirled around topics such as the modern design and whether it could support some rustic elements to sync up with homes on Cross Street. They lost me when they started yapping about “materiality” and architectural “dialogue.”
Renderings of proposed design at 74 Central St.