Mayor John Carney, Chris Buccini, Council Member James Spadola,  at the  grand opening of Market West apartments. (Photo by Claudia Estrada)

Market West grand opening highlights ongoing redevelopment in Wilmington

Claudia EstradaCulture, Business, Headlines, real estate

WILMINGTON-Mayor John Carney, Council Member James Spadola, and BPG representatives, led the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the grand opening of the $110 million redevelopment of 221 West 10th Street. The project converted a 450,000-square-foot office building into 363 luxury apartments.  The redevelopment, which has been in the works for over 25 years, continues to try to build Wilmington’s reputation as a …

Chipotle Mexican Grill is coming to Claymont, the Claymont Renaissance Development Corp. announced on Facebook.

Chipotle coming to Claymont, as it thinks about its future

Ken MammarellaBusiness, Headlines, Summer

Chipotle is planning its 12th Delaware restaurant on Philadelphia Pike in Claymont, replacing a Boston Market that closed a year or so ago. “After months of negotiations with the shopping center owner, Chipotle Mexican Grill has signed a long-term lease and will completely rehab the existing building, which is still very structurally solid,” the Claymont Renaissance Development Corp announced on …

Market West is the new name for five blocks that go from Market to West streets and Delaware Avenue and 12th Street. (Buccini/Pollin Group)

Market West is Buccini/Pollin’s new downtown Wilm. brand

Ken MammarellaBusiness, Headlines

The Buccini/Pollin Group, which has been called Wilmington’s largest private landowner, has rebranded its downtown holdings. Market West is the new name for five blocks that go from Market to West streets and Delaware Avenue and 12th Street. It features five buildings BPG bought from the DuPont Co. in 1999 and 2017 as the company downsized and moved to the …

The upcoming home of Tri-State Liquors will still be on the Tri-State Mall site. (courtesy of Andrew Byer)

One store’s still standing at Tri-State Mall

Ken MammarellaBusiness, Headlines

The news coverage of what’s happening at the old Tri-State Mall (which closed in 2015, leaving a small strip shopping center still running) has largely ignored a store that’s thrived there since 1984. Tri-State Liquors is still in business, as several signs on chain link fencing along Naamans Road proclaim, and it’s planning to move soon across the parking lot to …