Garden City Center

Cranston, Rhode Island, the Providence suburb positioning Garden City Center at Reservoir Avenue and Garden City Drive, gives the 500,000 square foot open-air lifestyle center an anchor mix whose Whole Foods Market grocery, Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn, and Crate & Barrel home furnishings concentration reflects the Providence professional and academic household’s purchasing habits at a premium level that the Rhode Island consumer accesses for the food, home, and personal care occasion. Rolex serves the luxury watch category at an authorized dealer presence in Cranston that signals the Providence-area professional consumer’s willingness to sustain luxury watch purchases at a suburban lifestyle center, alongside Providence Diamond, the locally-rooted diamond and engagement jewelry specialist whose Rhode Island identity the New England consumer recognizes.

Shake Shack, Sweetgreen, and Chipotle serve the quick-service and premium casual dining categories. Tavern in the Square serves the full-service bar and casual dining occasion. Sally’s Apizza, the New Haven-founded coal-fired pizza institution, gives the property a New England food identity specific to the Northeastern culinary culture. Whole Foods Market gives the property a weekly grocery occasion anchor that the Cranston and East Greenwich household accesses on the same visit as the specialty retail and dining occasion, giving Garden City Center a foot traffic frequency model more typical of neighborhood retail than standard lifestyle centers.