22 Front St

Executive Summary

This is 7,000 SF of ground-floor retail space for lease at MidTown Mall, the multi-tenant center at 22-30 Front Street in downtown Worcester, sitting directly across from Worcester Common. The building dates to 1910 and runs five stories and 74,149 SF on a 0.52 acre parcel. The ground-floor space you would be taking was renovated in 2024 and handed back as a finished vanilla box, so the floors are new and the walls are done. What makes it unusual is what got left behind: the grocery shelving and the refrigeration are already in place. If you are a specialty grocer, a market, or a general store operator, that is most of your buildout sitting there before you sign, and it is the kind of infrastructure that almost never comes available in a downtown storefront. There is over 100 feet of floor-to-ceiling glass along Front Street, which gives you the sort of street presence you cannot buy with signage. The co-tenants pull their own traffic: Broth, Odd by Worcester Brewing, Woo Juice, The Clock Beer & Wine, Worcester Common Fitness, Woo City CrossFit, Kim's Jewelry, and Evil Eye Tattoo, with professional office tenants on the floors above. Daytime population runs about 9,000 within a quarter mile and roughly 25,400 within a half mile, and there are more than 4,000 public parking spaces inside that quarter-mile ring. Four large apartment projects sit within a ten minute walk: 145 Front at City Square (365 units), Aria on the Row (370 units), The 6Hundred (206 units), and The Cove (173 units), and The Pearl is under construction within half a mile. City Hall is a block away, the Worcester Public Library two blocks, and the theater district a short walk. BG-6 zoning is about as permissive as Worcester gets, covering food service, retail, medical, office, day-care, and arts and entertainment uses, with a 6:1 floor area ratio and no maximum building height. The building sits inside the Front and Commercial Streets National Register historic district. Rent is negotiable. If you want retail space for lease in downtown Worcester with the grocery infrastructure already paid for, call Collin.