Retail - Hadley Center

The Hadley Center retail development area offers approximately 300,000 square feet of leasable space within variously sized, interconnected buildings and out-buildings—from “junior anchors” to “boutique”-sized shops.  Strategically placed out-buildings form an architectural edge along Hanley, and frame views of internal shopping and pedestrian activity against the backdrop of store frontage and signage beyond. The architectural look of the retail buildings large and small takes inspiration from traditional local commercial building designs while also expressing a contemporary, up-beat, “hustle and bustle” atmosphere.  Buildings feature historic rich red-toned brick, combined with tastefully colored stucco, colorful metal frame and glass storefronts, and metal roofing elements.  Colorful metal canopies and awnings protect pedestrian shoppers and define the individual shop fronts.  Four tower elements accent the retail perimeter, reinforcing a special sense of destination and arrival for visitors.  The same red brick is also planned for tower walls, with bands of colored metal-frame windows capped with colored standing seam metal roofs.  Parking for shoppers is provided on landscaped surface lots and in underground parking garages beneath the junior anchor buildings.  A series of berms, trees, and shrubbery, in conjunction with the out-buildings, reinforces the architectural edge along Hanley, defines a landscaped pedestrian way from shop to shop, buffers the pedestrian experience from the effects of heavy vehicular traffic, and screens the view of surface parking.