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Retail Space for Sale & Lease in Central Massachusetts

Storefronts, restaurant space, and shopping center suites across Worcester County, on the corridors that actually carry traffic.

Looking in the city? Worcester, MA commercial real estate: listings, rents, tax rates, and the market data.

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4 listings

For Sale606 Southbridge St Retail property in Auburn
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$1,000,0002,000 SF

606 Southbridge St

Auburn · Retail

For Lease440 Mt Pleasant St Retail property in New Bedford
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$18.00/SF±4,561 SF

440 Mt Pleasant St

New Bedford · Retail

For Lease22 Front St Retail property in Worcester
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Negotiable7,000 SF

22 Front St

Worcester · Retail

For Lease1094 Pleasant St Retail property in Worcester
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$25.00/SF800 - 1,000 SF

1094 Pleasant St

Worcester · Retail

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Retail Space for Sale & Lease: the market

Retail is tighter than the headlines suggest

Retail vacancy across the Worcester market fell to 3.3%, the lowest CoStar has recorded here, on about 500,000 square feet of positive absorption. Only 24,000 square feet is under construction against 49 million square feet of inventory, and the supply base has been shrinking through demolitions. The retail apocalypse story never described this market. Neighborhood centers anchored by grocery or pharmacy have been the steadiest performers, and well-located storefronts do not sit empty long.

What space costs

Asking rents across the market average $17.88 per square foot triple net, and Worcester storefronts price around that. Prime Shrewsbury Street and Canal District restaurant space sits well above it; secondary corridor storefronts sit below. Tenant improvement allowances of $20 to $50 per square foot are commonly negotiated for new tenants, and on a build-out heavy use that allowance is often worth more than a dollar or two off the rent.

The corridors, and who they serve

Shrewsbury Street is the dining corridor. Route 9 carries regional traffic through Worcester and Shrewsbury. Main Street and the Canal District draw downtown and event traffic, including Polar Park. Park Avenue serves dense neighborhood retail. Route 20 in Auburn pulls regional shoppers near the Auburn Mall. Daily traffic counts on these corridors run about 15,000 to 40,000 vehicles, and each one serves a genuinely different customer, so the right corridor depends on your concept rather than on the rent alone.

What to check

For tenants: co-tenancy, curb cuts and how hard it is to turn in, parking ratio, signage rights, and any exclusive-use clause that either protects you or blocks you. For restaurant use, confirm grease trap, hood ventilation, gas service, and three-compartment sinks before you price the build-out. For buyers: pull the lease rollover schedule first. A center with three leases expiring in the same eighteen months is a different asset than the rent roll makes it look.

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Each market page carries the vacancy, rents, tax rates, corridors, and current listings for that town. Start there if you are focused on one place.