The Wilder Companies developed Crossing at Walkers Brook in Reading, Massachusetts, at Exit 39 off Route 128/I-95 near the I-93 interchange, positioning the property to draw from the affluent Boston suburbs of Reading, Lynnfield, Wakefield, Stoneham, North Reading, Wilmington and Woburn. Jordan’s Furniture anchors the property alongside an IMAX 3D theatre built into the same building, a format the Massachusetts furniture retailer has used at several of its stores to drive destination traffic beyond furniture shopping alone.
The Home Depot and The Paper Store round out the big-box tenant base, with a food and beverage lineup including Starbucks and Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza & Wings. Golf Galaxy carries sporting goods, and Route 128 Honda operates a dealership directly on the property. Trader Joe’s signed a lease in early 2026 to take over roughly 70 percent of the center’s former Staples unit, a 13,700 sqft store expected to open in late 2026 as the center’s first specialty grocer, becoming the chain’s 22nd Massachusetts location.
The center sits on Walkers Brook Drive, a corridor the Town of Reading has separately targeted for a multi-modal redesign study, including shared-use path and cycle-track alternatives intended to improve pedestrian and bicycle access to the retail corridor and nearby Lake Quannapowitt.
That draw-from-multiple-affluent-suburbs positioning, anchored by a furniture store paired with an IMAX theatre rather than a conventional department store, reflects how power centers built at major highway interchanges in the 2000s increasingly used entertainment-adjacent anchors to create genuine destination pull rather than relying purely on big-box retail convenience.
