Filling the retail space in the largest mixed-use development in city history has been slowed by the economy, but a grocery store still is in the plans at University Square.
Officials with the $140 million Downtown project say they have filled about 55 percent of the project’s 140,000 square feet of retail space and it likely will be full by the end of 2009.
And the biggest tenant could be a grocery store ranging in size from 17,0000 to 28,000 square feet at the corner of Lake Street and University Avenue.
Officials with Executive Management Inc., the developer of the project, say they are pursuing a grocery store to serve the more than 800 residents that live upstairs in the Lucky apartments tower and the thousands of others who live and work around the development.
It’s also in the center of more than $400 million worth of building and redevelopment projects in UW-Madison’s East Campus Gateway development plan.