Kensington Street, Chippendale seeking edgiest retail tenants
Sydney’s newest laneway retail precinct, Kensington Street, has been launched on the eastern boundary of the $2 billion masterplanned Central Park project in Chippendale.
Kensington Street by Greencliff is seeking 26 tenancies, including 14 food and beverage and 12 specialty retail, comprising 3,000 square metres of gross floor area spanning 160 metres of direct street frontage in the heritage-conversion lane way precinct.
Part of the precinct includes the Unlisted Collection’s boutique hotel, The Old Clare, which has secured top UK chef, Jason Atherton (Pollen Street Social, Equina) to head up a line-up including Clayton Wells (Momofuko Seiobo) and Sam Miller (Noma).
Greencliff executive director, in charge of leasing, Marcus Chang says it presents a rare opportunity to showcase talents.
“Greencliff are in the midst of carefully curating a melting pot of some of the edgiest and highly acclaimed talents in the world,” said Chang.
“Tenancies range from intimate and affordable 25sqm spaces which offer really cool unique opportunities for someone like a barista, chic pastry chef or even a cocktail bar – to spaces within soaring warehouses with graffiti on the walls, exposed beams and hundreds of years of history etched in every crevice," he said.
"This is inner-city retail gold dust.”
The community of Central Park is already 2,000 plus residents now living at the precinct with a further 3,000 set to move into the precinct by 2015.
The Greencliff CEO Dr Stanley Quek said that the concept was developed as a major drawcard for innovative and ambitious retailers looking to contribute to the newest vibrant ‘eat street’ in the heart of Sydney’s new downtown.
“Visitors will be reminded of the streets of Brooklyn in New York, Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice Beach, LA or Brick Lane in East London. It will be quite unlike any pedestrian laneway precinct currently in Australia,” he said.
The Kensington Street precinct is expected to be open in early 2015.