Trillium Circle

Infobox shopping mall
shopping_mall_name = Trillium Circle


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location = Grand Blanc, Michigan, USA
address = Holly Road @ Trillium Circle Ave.
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opening_date = TBD
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developer = Park McPherson Design
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owner = CB Richard Ellis
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number_of_stores = TBD
number_of_anchors = TBD
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floors = 1
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website = http://www.trilliumcircle.com
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Trillium Circle is the name of an outdoor shopping center which, as of mid-2008, is under construction outside the city of Grand Blanc, a suburb of Flint, Michigan, USA. Under development since 2004, the shopping center is located on Holly Road on the south side of Grand Blanc. It features an IMAX movie theater owned by NCG Cinemas, as well the 500th location for the restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings. The rest of the property, which is owned by CB Richard Ellis, has yet to be developed.

History

Plans for Trillium Circle were first announced in late 2004 by its developpers.cite web |url=http://trilliumcircle.com/news/ABC12com7_8_04.pdf |title=Trillium Circle expected in Grand Blanc |accessdate=2008-05-28 |last=Carr |first=Jason |date=2004-07-08 |work=ABC 12] A site was chosen for the property, on Holly Road south of Grand Blanc itself. At the time, the only other business operating nearby was a grocery store called Colony Market, a Spartan Stores affiliate. This grocery store was to have been replaced with a newer Colony Market, convert|40000|sqft|m2 in size, which would have been incorporated into the Trillium Circle development itself; however, Colony Market closed its store in March 2006, and its property was sold to the developers of Trillium Circle. [cite web |url=http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/local&id=3989368 |title=Popular Grand Blanc market sold to Trillium Circle |accessdate=2008-05-28 |last=Feick |first=Joel |date=2006-03-13 |work=ABC 12]

The property, when completed, will be a lifestyle center composed of convert|275000|sqft|m2 of retail space,cite web |url=http://www.trilliumcircle.com/LeasingPacket.pdf |title=Leasing Packet |accessdate=2008-05-28 |work=TrilliumCircle.com] with various boutiques and restaurants completing the tenant roster. Development has been slow, due mainly to struggling economy in the state of Michigan. [cite web |url=http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/local&id=5357207 |title=Trillium development slow, but change is coming |accessdate=2008-05-28 |last=Asher |first=Taryn |date=2007-05-31 |work=ABC 12] Initially, the center was to have opened in 2006, while a leasing packet issued by CB Richard Ellis placed the date of opening in early 2007.

In late 2007, a 14-screen IMAX movie theater owned by NCG Cinemas was opened, [cite web |url=http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/local&id=5698734 |title=More new shops coming to Grand Blanc area |accessdate=2008-05-28 |last=Franklin |first=Matt |date=2007-10-09 |work=ABC 12] followed in March 2008 by the 500th location for the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant chain. [cite web |url=http://www.mlive.com/flintjournal/business/index.ssf/2008/03/grand_blanc_township_buffalo_w.html |title=Grand Blanc Township Buffalo Wild Wings to be chain's 500th restaurant |accessdate=2008-05-28 |date=2008-03-11 |work=The Flint Journal] [cite web |first=Theresa|last=Roach|url=http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/onthetable/2008/03/buffalo_wild_wings_opening_sunday_near_movie_theat.html |title=Buffalo Wild Wings opening Sunday near movie theater in Grand Blanc Township |accessdate=2008-05-28 |date=2008-03-12 |work=The Grand Blanc News] Plans have also been announced for four other restaurants in the area, as well as further development on the shopping center itself; construction began on the property's south end in March 2008. [cite web |url=http://viewnewspapers.net/moxie2/news/development-continues-at-.shtml |title=Development continues at Trillium: Buffalo Wild Wings to open by end of February |accessdate=2008-05-28 |last=Skarritt |first=Kelly |work=Grand Blanc View]

References

External links

* [http://www.trilliumcircle.com Trillium Circle]